While the little ear-shaped pasta from Puglia called orecchiette is often served with rapini around southern Italy, most of the Pugliese people were too poor to add meat to the pasta they ate daily. As immigrants from the region adapted their cooking to America’s meaty abundance, they added pork. So we’ve been eating orecchiette with…
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So much GOOD stuff happening this weekend!
While they might be called yams in the produce section, the pointy ended tubers with bright orange flesh are really sweet potatoes. True yams grow in Africa and rarely make it here. Sweet potatoes are loaded with an enzyme called amylase, which we use to digest food but also converts starches to sugar. To get the…
You’ll never look at squash the same way again + Pop-ups, Portland Cocktail Week & Sarah Owens!
Poor winter squash. It might be the most misunderstood vegetable, and, in fact, it’s really a fruit (because seeds). While Native Americans depended on it, our colonizing ancestors hated it and needed another indigenous food, maple syrup, to get it down. For years acorn squash was the only winter squash you’d find in the market,…
Real Good November : Our monthly event roundup!
We love the extra space, bigger kitchen, location, parking, and light of our new home on NE Couch. And we’ve discovered it’s a great place for a party! Check out this month’s events. A Real Good Apple 1-4 pm We’re teaming up with Portland Nursery, Lauretta Jeans Bakery, and Mill A Cider to host Monica…
Real Good Food Opens First Store
Real Good Food Grows Ingredients Insider Opens First Store Portland, OR (6/20/19) – Jim Dixon – best known for supplying some of Portland’s best chefs key ingredients like extra virgin olive oil, and special vinegars – is expanding his company Real Good Food with the opening of a retail store in his new warehouse in…