Travel alongside Cook’s Country’s Editorial Director Bryan Roof as he explores the communities and cuisines that make up the great American dinner table. In this episode, he heads to Portland, Oregon to learn about artisanal charcuterie from the best at Olympia Provisions.
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I looove PDX!!! My girlfriends and I used to drive there on a food trip from Eugene when I lived there. Loooved living in Eugene, too! I miss the Pacific Northwest sooo sooo much!
Best!
I truly doubt that his sausages measure up to those made in Chicago or New York, where generations of Eastern Europeans have been making sausages for decades.
Brian I think you're one of the best and I enjoy watching you. If you're ever in Portland OREGON and have time I'd like to meet you and talk about cooking possibly.
Is America's best literally any kind of food in Portland Oregon? Yes it is. We literally invented hipsters making artisanal foodstuffs so good that it makes Europe look like Cleveland. Is our food scene tediously pretentious and overpriced? Absolutely it is, but that's what it takes to get someone to devote their lives to making a gastropub entirely devoted to craft pickles or utterly disgusting sounding new flavors of ice cream that's somehow so popular that there's a line out the door on a cold rainy afternoon in November. Portland Oregon. We're just better than you.
Best sausage in Portland is at Edelweiss Sausage & Delicatessen by far. Old school German market and deli. Olympia Provisions is ok but it is (imo) overpriced for average charcuterie.
I would love to work there. My kind of place.
It's a toss up between this guy and Edelweiss Sausage & Delicatessen in Portland
Thank you. This was really interesting to learn the processes and more so, to have better options than mass produced Italian mild, hot, & honey garlic. Whatever you make with sausage today this will provide a refreshing change to your meals.
You can't teach that.
The footage is fantastic, really interesting to watch
Yeah I see the technique you're talking about, frame #4:11 at waist high. Special natural method huh? Sure you're right.
FYI for people. Historically a heck lot of Swiss immigrants have come to the Portland area.
Portland resident here. This video is smooth af don’t know how else to describe it hahah. Props to both of you
Portland use to be so nice, nowadays the homeless do what they want. Most shops left, or have boarded up windows. I accidentally stepped in human poop on the sidewalk. Since covid hit Portland has gone so far down hill.
No one will ever eat it. Regular honest folk DO NOT go to the arse of OR that is Portland
Eli Cairo is such a chill dude
I don't go to Portland Oregon to many bums and crime is out of control.
Love it! May your wonderful sausage help reform the city of Portland & Oregon in general, to the beautiful city it was and can BE moving forward. 🙏🏼🇺🇸😍🤩
No. The best sausage comes from central Texas.
Of course just ask the women of portland…harvey is the best..mmmmm
Sheboygan, Wi.
Mold?
I like sausage with no mold.
Portland has phenomenal food everywhere
"Bryan, language, except we're going to use that for the intro because it's funny!"
I've got to try cooking the potatoes that way, almost German style but not quite.
I visited Portland once. On that single weekend I ate there twice! Love their products.
Great Piece! As someone who lives in Portland, I truly appreciate this sort of positive focus to let the world know Portland is still a great place to live
No, the best sausage in the world comes from Green Bay, Wisconsin!!!!!!!!!!!!
11:45 BILLS MAFIA
I absolutely love sausage. My heritage is Bavarian, and I pickle everything in sight with my own self-made vinegars. I live and work in Seattle's Pike Place Market where Uli's sausage keeps me reasonably happy but I always love my return trips to Portland. That said, Cleveland's historic West Side Market is a must. When I still lived in Cleveland, there were over 20 polycultural sausage vendors in the market! Tonight dinner is my homemade four-month ferment cabbage, rutabaga, and horseradish kraut with Uli's liver sausage and my own baby potatoes from our rooftop garden. . . happy camper!
Portland has the worst sausage in the world. Its all vegan sausage.
What? Is this an infomercia?! Portland Provision sucks!! I know because I live a few blocks away. This overpriced hot dog stand has NO blood sausage, no liver sausages, nothing besides the same old crap that we are force fed by fast food companies . Im genuinly angered by this informercial. THIS IS AN OVERPRICED HOTDOG STAND!!
For great sausages in Portland's instead go to Edelweiss Sausage & Delicatessen.