Press and Photos from Taste of the Nation Portland 2007

all you can eat

Ultimate Magazine
For a night, the Oregon Convention Center is your oyster (you’ll find plenty on the half shell at the Jake’s Grill booth) as you survey, flavor by flavor, Oregon’s culinary scene. Go ahead and have seconds — it’s all for a cause that warms hearts while it fills stomachs. Read More...

Review: Taste of the Nation

A Fly on the Wall
I had been dreaming of this night for weeks. A plate, a wine glass and over 200 of the region’s finest food and wine creators together in one giant room is pretty close to my idea of heaven. Read More...

A Taste of Portland for A Taste of the Nation

Eat, drink and be merry – and practice some charity, too

Portlandfoodanddrink.com
Growing from 15 restaurants, 9 wineries and 1 brewery, and about 350 attendees in 1988; Taste of the Nation now has over 70 participating restaurants, 50 wineries and breweries, and over 1000 attendees. It is the best of Portland in food and drink certainly, but it is also the best of Portland in spirit, good will, and generosity. Read More...

Check out the pictures from the 2007 event!

Thanks to Steve and Debbie Duvoisin for their generosity in sharing these pictures with us.

Press and Photos from Taste of the Nation Portland 2006

Check out the pictures from the 2006 event!

Thanks to Russ Taylor and Steve Duvoisin for their generosity in sharing these pictures with us.

Compassionate consumption

By Michael C. Zusman

The Oregonian - A&E
Compassion can be quantified in many ways. At the 19th annual Taste of the Nation on Monday night, Oregonians' passion for helping the hungry was counted by the calorie. For the price of admission, all of which goes to benefit organizations dedicated to feeding the disadvantaged, entrants at the event's Oregon Convention Center debut gulped their way in comfort through offerings from 120 local restaurants, wineries and other purveyors. Read More...

Benefits this tasty make raising money a cakewalk

By Liz Colie Gadberry

The Portland Tribune
The Oregon Convention Center was the perfect setting for a murder Monday night.

Several of Portland’s best-known chefs gathered together in the same space simply begged for drama. In a mystery by Agatha Christie or Rex Stout, one chef would have ended up dead, collapsed into his food and certainly poisoned. Fortuitously Hercule Poirot or Nero Wolfe would have been on the scene and solved the mystery leading to the arrest of the dead chef’s jealous rival. Read More...