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Portland OR 2024
Portland OR 2024

Portland OR is my favorite get-away weekend in the Pacific Northwest. It’s the closest to Seattle at three hours. The coast or the San Juans are more scenic but lack a variety of dining choices—and take longer to get there, sometimes much longer. See what I enjoyed at Urdaneta, St. Jacks, Bluto’s and the Phuket Cafe.

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Basque Cuisine, Portland Oregon, restaurant review, Greek cuisine, French cuisine, Spanish cuisine, Thai cuisine, Japanese Garden PDXKaren TripsonPDX, blutos PDX, St Jacks PDX, urdaneta PDX, Phuket Cafe PDX, portland art museum
Basque Books for Research for The Cooking Class in San Sebastian
Basque Books for Research for The Cooking Class in San Sebastian

I read many books about the Basques for The Cooking Class in San Sebastian.

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Cookbooks, Basque, Culture, good reading, restaurants, Seattle WA, Writers, Basque history, Basque Culture, Basque CuisineKaren TripsonBasque, Basque cookbooks, basque history, robert laxalt, mark kurlansky, Zulaika, Gerald Hirigoyen, The Harvest Vine, Piperade, Sweet Promised Land, The Basque Hotel, Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, The Basque Kitchen, Basque Dance, Basque Firsts, Portraits of Basques in the new world, John M. Ysursa