Portland

The infant city called The Clearing was a bald patch amid a stuttering wood. The Clearing was no booming metropolis; no destination for gastrotourists; no career-changer for ardent chefs - just awkward, palsied steps toward Victorian gentility. In the decades before the remaining trees were scraped from the landscape, Portland's wood was still a verdant breadbasket, overflowing with huckleberries and chanterelles, venison leaping on cloven hoof. Today, Portland is seen as a quaint village populated by trust fund wunderkinds who run food carts each serving something more precious than the last. But Portland's culinary history actually tells a different story: the tales of the salmon-people, the pioneers and immigrants, each struggling to make this strange but inviting land between the Pacific and the Cascades feel like home.
The foods that many people associate with Portland are derived from and defined by its history: salmon, berries, hazelnuts and beer. But Portland is more than its ingredients. Portland is an eater's paradise and a cook's playground. Portland is a gustatory wonderland. Full of wry humor and captivating anecdotes, Portland: A Food Biography chronicles the Rose City's rise from a muddy Wild West village full of fur traders, lumberjacks and ne'er-do-wells, to a progressive, bustling town of merchants, brewers and oyster parlors, to the critical darling of the national food scene. Heather Arndt Anderson brings to life in lively prose the culinary landscape of Portland, then and now.

Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland native, is a freelance journalist and food writer. She is the author of Breakfast: A History (AltaMira Press, 2013) and Portland: A Food Biography (Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy, 2014). She is presently writing Chilies: A Global History. In a previous life, she was a plant ecologist and blogger. She plays hobby-homesteader in Portland with her husband, son, cats, and chickens.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Chapter 1: The Material Resources: Rivers, Valleys, Volcanoes and Sky
Chapter 2:The Chinook and Kalapuya People: Salmon, Camas and Wapato
Chapter 3:The Old World Meets the Wild West Oregon"
Chapter 4:Immigrants: Their Neighborhoods and Contributions
Chapter 5:To Market, To Market: Going Grocery Shopping
Chapter 6:Perusing the Menu: Eating Out in Stumptown's Oldest Restaurants
Chapter 7:Drink Up: Breweries, Saloons and Bars
Chapter 8: Like Mother Used to Make: Historic Cookbooks and Home Cooking
Epilogue: A Gustatory Wonderland
Bibliography
Notes