Lola's Beef

I have really enjoyed the last couple episodes of Underground Airwaves, the podcast that my pal Chris hosts and I help produce. Underground Airwaves is a food story podcast, so we let things get pretty loose and free. I recently started a new series as a complement called I Want to Know What You Know, in which we choose the host and they choose the guest--ideally someone they are infatuated with.

Underground Airwaves has a mess of events and projects coming up, but in these moments before the storm, may I please suggest you check out a few recent knock-out shows?

The Hearing Fields with Charles Boardman

When a young WWOOFer finds himself on a biodynamic saffron farm in Sardinia, jogging with sheep and chasing donkeys, his mind circles back to home.

The Stuff I Obsess About

Great news from my pals Sakiko and Yuri!

// MISO Making Workshop //

- Let's learn how to make homemade organic MISO & MISO recipes-

Sakiko and Yuri are having miso making workshops, and we are wondering if you are interested in joining us.  Each participant will make 4 lbs of miso to keep (they usually last for over a year for us who drink lots of miso soups - and they are great gifts to your friend and family!)   We provide a miso making lesson, miso soup demonstration, Japanese traditional meal with different miso dips and a miso recipe book.  You can bring homemade miso home with your belly filled with yummy food.  How cool is that?!

Please see the details below, and let us know if you would like to join us. 

Date1: October 6th 2015 (TUE) 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Date2: October 7th 2015 (TUE) 6:30pm - 8:30pm

* Please mention if you are available on the specific date or both day.

Place: SE Portland (we will let you know the exact address when you sign up)

Cost: $50 (including all ingredients + meal)

What you can bring home: 4 lbs organic miso + a recipe book

Wat to bring: stoneware 1 gal crock, a big mixing bowl and a hand blender (if you have)

(you can purchase the crock as the attached photo at the workshop at $25 if you want to)

* Please RSVP at [email protected] by September 30th (WED) (with your name and phone #)

* Please let us know if you have special diet needs

* Please BYOB (we have water and tea)

If you prefer any other day, please let us know.  We are also offering private workshops for a group of 6+ people, so please feel free to ask about them.

If you have any question, please contact me at [email protected] or call me at (720) 940-6386

We look forward to seeing you in the class!

Here’s a story I wrote for Lucky Peach that I’m cow-jumped-over-the-moon excited to share with you. It’s an interview and profile of Anthony and Carol Boutard, two radical farmers who are bucking the system and producing their own plant varietals. They also happen to be among the finest people to spend time with.

This story takes a close look at the burgeoning Oregon truffle farming industry and its biggest proponents. The story itself took years of gestation to reach its ripe, stinky fruiting. I am keeping my eyes on the Oregon truffle industry. I’m an excitable skeptic.