gastronaut 21
Graduation dinners. The last chance you get to fleece your parents and well-wishing family members out of every dime you can. I’ll spare you on the rhetoric, and get down to cases.
I wrote to an acquaintance of mine, the venerable Jim Dixon (a.k.a the only food writer in Portland worth reading. Yes Roger, that [...]
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graduation dinners
coffeeshops and portland. = chicken and egg?
gastronaut 20.
I continue to amaze myself, because this is my twentieth column. You know how I manage to write a thesis, do my classwork, and contribute to the Quest each week? Coffee. it’s the breakfast of champions, yo. We run on it. If we, as a generation, hadn’t been named a thousand times over, we [...]
so you’re out of a dorm… now you need a kitchen (april 2005)
gastro 19
So kids, some of you are moving out of your dorms and into the scaaaaaary world of communal living in a house you can’t burn down without terrible consequences. The problem is, you don’t have a damn thing to put in all those clean new cabinets, and the once common practice of assuming leases [...]
food porn, or how to teach yourself to cook (march 2005)
gastronaut 18
A few of you kind souls came to my rescue and sent in suggestions for things to cover, but first, i feel it necessary to address the ones that are not covered in this column. To the person who wants a review of Fat Albert’s, the next time I manage something other than 40oz [...]
friends and food comas
Gastronaut 15 as usual, make up a better title.Now is about the time that everyone stops cooking. Come on now admit it. You’ve been shopping less, eating things that either: cook in 5 minutes, are from the scrounge line, the bookstore, or if you are avoiding the last mess you left in your meager dorm [...]
oi… a column devoid of inspiration (march 2005)
gastronaut 17
my god, I have absolutely nothing to say. Nothing. Not a god damn thing, other than expressing my utter and complete confusion over ‘medieval night (knight?)’ that took over commons on thursday night. While i respect the desire to ‘mix things up’ and try jiggle the freshman out of their corn-oil and rockstar induced [...]
buffet = spawn of satan (feb 2005)
Gastronaut 14
The strangest thing happened to me a few days ago. I was in a Best Buy, that store with so many blinking, hypnotic lights even the most hardcore anarcho-syndicalist could find themselves dropping a few grand on an HDTV and a satellite system. Anyway, I was perusing the videogames when I stumbled on something [...]
its la-arb its la-arb (Jan 2005)
The Gastronaut returns (as usual, come up with something witty)
Hey kids, I’m back for another semester of food and food related drivel. I don’t really feel like writing too much this week, so I’m going to run down a little bit of food news and new restaurants (well, at least new to me) from our [...]
the bybee bridge re-opens, december 2004
Gastronaut 12
Well kids, this will be the last installment of the Gastronaut for this semester, and I’d like to thank any and all of you who have bothered to read my columns, despite their occasional shitty quality. Long-live last minute writing, right? Anyway, I’ve got a lot of other shit I should be doing right [...]
thanksgiving
Gastronaut 11
Well, I was going to write a column so short and full of useful recipes for Thanksgiving, in hope that it would make up for whatever piece of shit I wrote last week. Then I saw the New York Times, The Oregonian, and the fucking Mercury(?) had taken care of that. So I’ll throw [...]