Portland Potager
Flavor Forays led a group of food and beverage leaders and corporate chefs on a delicious immersion in this Pacific Northwest culinary mecca. Thanks to an amazing group of chefs, artisans, fishermen, farmers, cheesemakers, brewers, and producers we were both educated and inspired.
Thank you one and all for joining Portland Potager, our third annual Flavor Foray in Portland October 14 to 16, 2019. We enjoyed seeing old friends and making new ones and hope you will all come with us on future journeys. Don’t you love it that Julian Alonzo and Vitaly Paley were classmates in culinary school?
Let’s give a shout out to all the terrific chefs who fed us, instructed us in their techniques and shared their personal stories--Peter Cho at Han Oak, Jose Chesa at Atuala, Melissa McMillan at Pastrami Zombie and Sammich, Aaron Adams at Farm Spirit.
Have you ever been to tea in a hotel that rivals the Samovar Russian Tea Service Vitaly Paley created for Headwaters at the Heathman drawing on his Russian heritage? And for that matter have you ever had a Turkish breakfast in an American hotel like the one we enjoyed at Rosa Rosa in the Dossier hotel? Thanks again to Paley.
Many, many thanks to all our wonderful sponsors: IMS/Bigelow Tea, Smithfield Foods, ARC Cardinal, National Pork Board. We couldn’t have done this without you.
Thanks to Oregon expert Judiaann Woo (@judiaanwoo), a former colleague at Food Arts, who introduced us to so many of these wonderful locals. And thanks to Nan Devlin who helped arrange the Tillamook adventure on the coast.
We couldn’t have enjoyed a better home base than the Dossier Hotel. Thanks to Stephen Galvan and the wonderful staff for taking such good care of us.
