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A Place Is a Gift

Jonathan Kauffman

Stories about eating the neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Call it gleanercore.

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In the first two weeks after my mother died, when every waking hour was consumed with spreadsheets and group texts, I would leave my father alone in the apartment once a day to walk through the wildflower meadow next to their apartment.

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Now that the winter rains have set in, I've harvested all the herbs from the garden, racing to preserve them before the frosts kill everything off.

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Quinces, and time, and refuge

Last year’s quince haul

This has been another good year for quinces, and everyone I know with trees has had excess fruit to give away. For the past month, my kitchen counter has been covered in bumpy golden quinces fragrantly waiting for m...

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    Portland food writer. Author of Hippie Food, a history of the natural-foods movement. More at www.jonathankauffman.com.

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