Food Lover's Guide to Portland - By Liz Crain

When exploring the many unique restaurants of the Portland area, you'll soon discover the exemplary use locally grown foods and beverage in Portland provides a completely unique culture. In the book A Food Lover's Guide to Portland, written by Liz Crain, was released in July 2010. While the book does delve into many of the unique establishments in the totally self-sustained restaurant ecosystem of Portland, it misses the mark of the target audience.

This book, which consists of 256 pages of restaurants in a highly local town. Through a lengthy series of essays, she explores the numerous advantages and lifestyles of those providing the support for this completely unique culture, reviewing the various restaurants that make this town special, and how everything comes together to form one of the best food towns in the United States.

Unfortunately, this is where the good points of the book end. For a unique food culture, like Portland, many of the local favorites have been excluded, opting for more of a tourist focus. This can be viewed as both a blessing and a curse. While smaller eateries have been skipped over for more tourist friendly restaurants, this can help to keep these hidden treasures buried, but also take away needed business to help the community grow and prosper. Some locals may love it, but others would prefer to attend the places they already know and love.

A Food Lover's Guide to Portland could provide a lot more than it did, but it is still currently available in paperback and electronic editions for those who would like what I could best describe as the basic of the Portland restaurant community.

For pure evidence of the extremely local community and culture of the eateries in this town, you can see it in the culinary schools in Portland, the local breweries and wineries, and even in the bistros, bars, and farms of this food town. Still, leave the book at home and just ask a local which restaurant is the best place for what you'd like to eat.

Stan Hundemer is an avid foodie who enjoys many of the unique culinary cultures of the United States.

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