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Home Cooking Chronicles: Apricot Preserves

My grandmother had a built-in floor-to-ceiling bookcase on her enclosed back porch. It wasn’t filled with books, but…

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Cooking with Campiche: Yummy Bing cherry sauce

My wife, Laurie, drove back from Yakima, Wash., with a box-full of fresh Bing cherries, and after two…

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The Thirsty Growler: Try these special summer beers

It’s positively head-spinning, all the great summer beers being made here. Every brewery on the North Coast is…

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Home Cooking Chronicles: Summer berry Brita cake  

Living in Astoria means being surrounded by Nordic culture. From festivals and food to princesses and friends, the…

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Cooking with Campiche: Chanterelles with garlic scape pesto

In a recent column, I talked about reconstituting dried chanterelle mushrooms. Here we are a few weeks later,…

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Home Cooking Chronicles: How to make delicious bourbon peach smash

As a general rule, I won’t buy peaches in the Pacific Northwest before August. Sure, they might look fine, but…

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Cooking with Campiche: Ham soup with preserved mushrooms

This is the second of two parts This is a continuation of my last column where I wrote…

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Astoria Farmers Market hours noted

From 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. June 26 the Astoria Uppertown Business Association hosts a Farmers Market on…

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Home Cooking Chronicles: Couscous with roasted tomatoes and olives

Couscous has always been a bit of an enigma to me. Is it a grain? A pasta? And…

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The Thirsty Growler: Brewers’ bubbly embrace of craft soda

Ending a drought spanning several generations, craft soda is being made on the Oregon Coast again. The once-thriving…

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