Portland is a city that has, for years, celebrated the holidays with food and beverage: People give each other ribbon-wrapped bottles of Willamette Valley wine, gift boxes full of Oregon-made charcuterie, cookbooks written by Portland chefs. It’s a city with a number of craftspeople who make their own knives, fermentation crocks, or cast iron; Portland servers, decked out in Portland-sewn aprons, set tables with Oregon-made ceramics and glassware. The whole hyper-local thing isn’t an act; it’s just how Portlanders do things.
So perhaps a food-themed Portland gift guide is redundant — we’re all familiar with the tried-and-true standbys like Cloudforest chocolates, Westward single-malt, and bottles of Nong’s Khao Man
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