How the Cows Led the Way and Saved the Farm – Mobile Minute Cooking Up a Story It's a remarkable personal story of triumph and perseverance in the face of dire circumstances. The post How...
Hash + Escape = Hashcapades – Mobile Minute Cooking Up a Story Hash and its gregarious companion— hashcapades— are a joyous romp and a satisfying culinary adventure. The post Hash + E...
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A Chocolatier’s Story – Alma’s Chocolate – Mobile Minute Cooking Up a Story It’s an unusual story. A chocolatier who makes religious icons out of rich, dense chocolate. And the resu...
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little t american baker Cooking Up a Story Tim Healea, renowned for the quality of the breads that he makes at his Little t American Baker shop in Portland, Oregon, said he never dreamed he�...
Alan Kapuler – Scientist, Organic Seed Breeder and Modern Artist Cooking Up a Story There’s another side to Alan Mushroom Kapuler that may surprise you. He’s also a modern artist who ha...
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The BBQ Jones Letter Cooking Up a Story The idea for the documentary began with this letter that Scott Jones reads in this video. The post The BBQ Jones Letter was originally published on ...
The BBQ Jones Motivation – Why? Cooking Up a Story The BBQc Jones "Why" clip above offers a tiny window into this mysterious world and what some competitors say about what motivates them to...
The BBQ Jones Trailer Cooking Up a Story This is the trailer for The BBQ Jones documentary, focus on Scott Jones and his quest to win in championship barbecue. The yet to be finished document...
Organic Dairyman – The Farmer (video) Cooking Up a Story Jon Bansen believes that since he converted his farm over to being organic and sustainable, he's becomes a much better farmer. The...
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Artisan Cheese on the Farm (video) Cooking Up a Story This story is about an artisan cheese producer who raises goats on her farm, and produces cheeses from the goats milk. The post Artisan...
Commercial Composting: Why One Restaurant Recycles (video) Cooking Up a Story One restaurant chooses to participate in a city-wide recycling program, turning food waste into reusable garden c...
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Organic Dairyman- Part 1: A Family Tradition (video) Cooking Up a Story There is an unique rhythm to life in being a dairy farmer. Jon Bansen, a third generation farmer, it was his grandfathe...
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Tranquility on an Urban Homestead Cooking Up a Story How do cats, a rabbit, a flock of chickens and a nest of honeybees all get along in an enclosed backyard? Urban homesteader Charlyn Ellis,...
Happy Cow Creamery Cooking Up a Story This short video is the story of farmer Tom Trantham and how his on-farm Happy Cow Creamery and bottling plant got built in 2002. The post Happy Cow Cr...
Alan Kapuler: Kinship Garden and Greenhouse Tour Cooking Up a Story Research scientist and public domain plant breeder, Alan Kapuler, takes us on a tour of his greenhouse, he refers to as Kin...
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Farm Your Yard Kitchen Garden Tour Cooking Up a Story The Farm Your Yard Kitchen Garden Tour showcases 3 urban farms that grow a wide diversity of food crops in a town near Portland, Oregon. ...
A Lavender Farm in Full Bloom – video Cooking Up a Story The Woodland Lavender Farm in Yamhill, Oregon contains an acre of lavender, grown for their oils and flower display. It's an amazing...
Starting a Recreational Marijuana Business: CannaMan Farms Cooking Up a Story We visit with one entrepreneur’s emerging marijuana business, CannaMan Farms, to glimpse first-hand a new...
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Profile of an Urban Homesteader Cooking Up a Story Charlyn Ellis talks about her 21st Street Urban Homestead in Corvallis, Oregon and the ways she increases her self-sufficient food lifest...
Documentary Stories Playlist Cooking Up a Story This documentary stories playlist contains some of our popular videos from the Cooking Up a Story library. The post Documentary Stories Playl...
Culinary Breeding Network: Variety Showcase Cooking Up a Story At The Culinary Breeding Network showcase event in Portland, we sample an exotic array of fresh vegetable varieties and learn mo...
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Preserving Endangered Heritage Breeds of Livestock Cooking Up a Story Boondockers Farm is a working farm dedicated to protecting rare species of heritage livestock and heirloom vegetable seed...
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Toro Bravo: a Cookbook Potluck Dinner Party Cooking Up a Story Friends get together in Portland, Oregon for a cookbook potluck, sharing recipes from the Toro Bravo cookbook of Spanish inspire...
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Featuring Ayers Creek Farm Organic Preserves Cooking Up a Story A great preserve faithfully captures the essence of the fruit and magnifies its flavor. Organic farmers Anthony and Carol Bouta...
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What the heck is mead? Cooking Up a Story I was on a personal quest to find out about mead. I began to see tastings and classes pop-up. I knew it was an ancient beverage made from honey - but...
Debbie Dean-the Artist Cooking Up a Story Cooking Up a Story introduces its new online store with a story about Debbie Dean, one of the exciting artisans whose products they are now featuring...
The Annual Verboort Sausage Dinner Event: Making Sauerkraut Cooking Up a Story These are behind the scenes images from the upcoming Verboort Dinner that draws scores of people to this unusual...
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A Low-Tech Organic Chestnut Farmer – video Cooking Up a Story For chestnut farmer Chris Foster, providing his community high quality, organic chestnuts with lesser impact on the environment...
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Creating a Pesticide Free Neighborhood Cooking Up a Story Mulysa Melco seeks to transform her Portland Overlook neighborhood into a pesticide free neighborhood zone to protect the health of h...
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From the Film Vault on YouTube-Tons Of Tasty Tomatoes Cooking Up a Story From the film vault, a story about the Portland Tomato Festival that draws growers from around the area to compete. ...
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Our Growing Collection of Wine Videos Cooking Up a Story An ongoing library of CUPS videos featuring local artisan wine producers and growers. The post Our Growing Collection of Wine Videos...
Frikeh, Freekeh, Fereek: Green Wheat Wonder (video) Cooking Up a Story Frikeh is a middle-eastern dish made from immature (green) wheat whose natural development is permanently arrested by a ...
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Traditional Dip Net Fishing: The Yakama Nation Tribe Cooking Up a Story Scott Spino, a Yakama Nation tribal member explains the importance of the Klickitat River and fishing as providing both...
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Designing Modular Garden Blocks For Raised Beds Cooking Up a Story it was a MBA course assignment that inspired them to create a set of interlocking garden blocks to make a raised garden bed....
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Copper River Salmon In Cordova, Alaska Cooking Up a Story Bill Webber and Bill Bailey are two longtime residents of Cordova, Alaska, whose livelihoods and way of life revolve around the Coppe...
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Counting Copper River Salmon at Childs Glacier Cooking Up a Story The returning Copper River salmon are counted at the Childs Glacier monitoring station as they complete their ocean migration...
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Annual Fermentation Festival Opens Up the World of Ferments Cooking Up a Story The Portland fermentation festival offers beginners the experience to taste first-hand a variety of fermented fo...
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Sourdough Starter: An Old Family Treasure Cooking Up a Story This sourdough starter has quite the story; it’s been passed down through the family for over 70 years. The post Sourdough Sta...
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Trash Fish: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Cooking Up a Story 4 top chefs team up as part of a national Chefs Collaborative fundraising effort to raise public awareness of overfishing, and cr...
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Why Eating Trash Fish is Good for Eaters, Fishermen, and Ocean Fish Cooking Up a Story Trash fish, or commercial bycatch, has far less value than targeted fish because their demand and recogn...
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Pastured Pig to Plate: The BBQ Pork Roast Celebration Cooking Up a Story Kathleen Bauer hosts a celebration BBQ pork roast dinner to honor the life of Roger the pig, and to thank those who we...
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Pastured Pig to Plate: Butchering the Pig Cooking Up a Story Kathleen Bauer describes Roger's humane pastured pig slaughter, butchering the pig is the next step when the carcass is delivered ...
Pastured Pig to Farm: The Farm Cooking Up a Story After agreeing to purchase part of a pig from Clare Carver of Big Table Farm, food writer, Kathleen Bauer became involved in the whole farm t...
Copper River Salmon, the Art of Fermentation, Pumpkins Cooking Up a Story A preview of upcoming episodes of Food Farmer Earth: Copper River Sockeye Salmon, the art of Fermentation, and pumpki...
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Food Swap! (video) Cooking Up a Story A fun way of building a local food community - getting together with others for a food swap! The post Food Swap! (video) was originally published on C...
Community Egg Co-op (video) Cooking Up a Story An unusual situation resulted in a community coming together to care for a flock of chickens. The post Community Egg Co-op (video) was origin...
Seed Art (video) Cooking Up a Story Cathy Camper, a local Portland artist, makes interpretive portraits and images of nature from seeds. The post Seed Art (video) was originally published ...
Eau De Vie Pear Brandy: A Personal Quest (video) Cooking Up a Story Eau De Vie, the French word meaning "water of life", is a spirited drink produced from the distillates of fermented and mas...
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Record Number of Fall Chinook Pass Through Bonneville Dam Cooking Up a Story What an incredible year for Columbia River salmon! Over 1 million salmon have passed through the Bonneville Dam ne...
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Nancy’s Homemade Goat Pillows Cooking Up a Story Nancy Arcement came upon the idea of making cuddly goat pillows out of chenille bedspreads and remnant pieces of upholstery fabric. The po...
An Urban Farmer in the City (video) Cooking Up a Story For two years, urban farmer Amanda Morse has grown food almost year-round on her farm in Portland. She markets her food to local restaur...
Harvesting Fresh Fruit Berries For A Local Farmer’s Market Cooking Up a Story Join us as we visit a berry farm where the growers are harvesting fresh fruit berries, and preparing their load...
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Summer Fun: Making S’mores Cooking Up a Story At a team party, a group of soccer kids show us how to make the perfect s'more. The post Summer Fun: Making S’mores was originally publish...
Object Focus: The Bowl Cooking Up a Story Namita Gupta Wiggens of the Museum of Contemporary Craft followed her own curiosity, and extensive knowledge of art history led her to create an inte...
2nd Generation Oregon Wine Producer: Sokol Blosser – video Cooking Up a Story As a 2nd generation Oregon wine producer, Alex Blosser, Sokol-Blosser Winery says their Fall harvest is an inte...
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Other Fine Wines: Roussanne Cooking Up a Story As an Oregon winemaker, Andrew Rich from the beginning, set out to be different from other producers. His Roussanne varietal, a case in point. ...
Strawberry Picking at a U-Pick Cooking Up a Story It's that time of year to get your buckets ready and go pick your own fruit and/or vegetables. The post Strawberry Picking at a U-Pick was...
An Oregon Grape Grower: From Wall Street to Vineyard Farm Cooking Up a Story Although Dick Shea started out as an Oregon grape grower for other producers, he also began producing his own wine...
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LIVE: A Sustainable Wine Program Cooking Up a Story LIVE (Low Input Viticulture and Enology) came about when Ted Casteel saw the need for a Sustainable Wine Program for continuing education a...
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Making Sparkling Wines in the Willamette Valley Cooking Up a Story Sparkling wines are relatively new in the Willamette Valley. Chris Berg, the current winemaker for the Laurel Ridge Winery, ...
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The Old World Craft of Barrel Making Cooking Up a Story Rick DeFerrari, of Oregon Barrel Works, offers his barrel making services to artisan winemakers. The post The Old World Craft of Barr...
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The Art of Blending Wines: From Barrel to Bottle Cooking Up a Story For James Frey at traesatum Winery and Vineyards, the process of blending wines to achieve just the right balance of flavor...
A Young Oregon Winemaker Cooking Up a Story At an early age, Remy Drabkin knew she wanted to become an Oregon winemaker. This is her story. The post A Young Oregon Winemaker was originally...
The Oldest Pinot Noir Vines in the Willamette Valley Cooking Up a Story David and Diana Lett moved to Oregon in 1965 and soon began planting the first cuttings of Pinot Noir on their new prop...
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The Yamhill Valley Wine Region of Oregon Cooking Up a Story This is the first video in The Yamhill Valley Wine Region of Oregon Series. We provide a brief glimpse of video stories featuring l...
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Douglas Fir Snow Cone Intermezzo Cooking Up a Story Chef Kathryn Yeomans offers her version of a local Douglas Fir Snow Cone favorite to her dinner guests at one of her pop up restaurant even...
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Made In America: SakéOne Premium Saké Cooking Up a Story At SakéOne, Greg Lorenz is one of less than a handful of saké brewers in the country. He's trying to build a domestic market for p...
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An Urban Goat Farm: Abita Springs Farm Cooking Up a Story Ed Arcement and his wife Nancy never knew their love of cheese would ever lead to having their own urban goat farm. But it did! The...
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A Glimpse Inside a Wild and Cultivated Organic Mushroom Farm – video Cooking Up a Story Dustin Olsen run the Mushroomery, an organic mushroom farm where he (& his wife) grow wild & cultivat...
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Designing a Sustainable Aquaponics System: An Inventor’s Touch Cooking Up a Story Designing a sustainable aquaponics system means building a closed system that maximizes natural efficiencie...
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Small Scale Aquaponics Cooking Up a Story Ann Forsthoefel talks about the learning curve she has experienced developing her small scale aquaponics system of growing food she plans to sell to ...
Winter Farming: A Tale of Bitter and Sweet Cooking Up a Story When it comes to farming through the winter months, Tom DeNoble of DeNoble’s Farm Fresh Produce in Tillamook is no romantic. �...
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The Evangelist of Hash and His Dining Escapades Cooking Up a Story Clark Haass is bent on world domination, but not in the evil-overlord-bwa-ha-ha sense. He wants to bring the world to the ta...
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The Dog Food Dude Abides Cooking Up a Story When Jackson, 'The Food Dude' Rick Woodford's "best buddy" was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wanted to help his friend enjoy the remaining day...
Peek Inside An Organic Farm Supply Store Cooking Up a Story Encouraged by friends to start their own company, their love of urban farming, and a strong sense of community, led them to open th...
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An Authentic English Public House in America Cooking Up a Story Ted Sobel of Brewers Union Local 180 shares his story of bringing the English public house to America. His brewery produces onl...
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Cooking Classes at the Local Farmers Market Cooking Up a Story Kathyrn Yeoman's demonstrates how to cook at a local farmers market using whole, fresh ingredients. The post Cooking Classes a...
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The Chef, The Farmer, and the Pop-Up Restaurant Cooking Up a Story Join us at a pop-up restaurant where the chef combines forces with the farmer at a local restaurant for one night to a reser...
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Sweet & Savory Pies: A Love Story Cooking Up a Story Meat pies are a staple of Australia but are hard to find here. That formed the impetus for Sarah Curtis-Fawley and her husband to open the...
Historic Building Now a Restaurant: Raven & Rose Cooking Up a Story Owner Lisa Mygrant describes the new Raven and Rose restaurant as “American farmhouse cooking with a nod to the British I...
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Sustainable Seafood: Abalone Farming In Monterey (video) Cooking Up a Story A visit to the Monterey Abalone Company which is located under the wharf in the picturesque town of Monterey, CA. ...
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Buying Bulk Foods: Fill Your Pantry Cooking Up a Story Fill Your Pantry, an annual post-harvest event seeks to establish a regional food economy that benefits Willamette Valley farmers, consu...
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The World of Distilled Spirits Cooking Up a Story “Yeast never sleeps,” said Sebastian Degens. Which is a good thing, since Degens and his wife, Erika, depend on it to ferment the fruit a...
Gluten Free Baked Goods for All Customers Cooking Up a Story The bakery was created “ to bring together” those who can’t consume gluten products, and regular eaters into the same commun...
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Food Farmer Earth Stories – Playlist Cooking Up a Story This Food Farmer Earth Stories Playlist contains some of our documentary shorts from the Food Farmer Earth "Originals" project. The...
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A Modern Blacksmith Making Ancient Japanese Culinary Knives – video Cooking Up a Story Arnon Kartmazov of Bridgetown Forge works all day on his feet. Like the traditional blacksmith of old,...
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A Critical Head Start for Pre-Schoolers: Eating Healthy Foods – video Cooking Up a Story Head Start provides preschool children of low-income families with healthy foods and fulfill other n...
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A Vineyard Grower During Harvest Cooking Up a Story Kevin Chambers of Resonance Vineyards is committed to his wine grapes and continuing to learn from nature and how to grow them better. Th...
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The Old Grist Mill Today Cooking Up a Story It’s a national landmark, and the only working hydro-powered grist mill in Washington State. We visit the old grist mill today. The post The Ol...
A Farmer and His Corn – video Cooking Up a Story A farmer and his corn, it's a love story. Can someone love corn and the rich varieties that are possible—yes! The post A Farmer and His ...
Corn Maze and Pumpkins at Harvest Time Cooking Up a Story Fall is a busy time of year on Bi-Zi Farms, and is marked by their annual public harvest festival they refer to as The Pumpkin Patch ...
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Peppers: A Love of Spanish Food and Culture Cooking Up a Story Manuel Recio and his wife, Leslie Lukas-Recio, had the sudden opportunity to buy her family’s farm on Grand Island in Oregon, ...
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Canning Food: Pickles Cooking Up a Story Paul Fuller and his wife Judy have been building their food processing business Sweet Creek Foods—they refer to it as a “glassery” rather than a...
Householding: A Way of Life and of Thinking Cooking Up a Story Harriet Fasenfest explains how her early exposure to social injustice and her love of food led her down a certain path. The po...
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Home Economics: Living Off the Farm (video) Cooking Up a Story In the 1940's when Virginia Yoder and her husband Emerson began to farm on their 50 acre property near Molalla, Oregon, America'...
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Food Club: Know Thy Food Cooking Up a Story Know Thy Food buyer's club began in 2008, when Rebecca Andersson realized they wanted to have more control over the food they were feeding their ch...
A Look Inside A Modern Combine Harvester – video Cooking Up a Story What's it like to ride inside a modern combine harvester? Follow alongside as we ride shotgun with a wheat farmer inside ...
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Wheat Harvest Cooking Up a Story The day we visited David Brewer of Emerson Dell Farm in late July, he was nearing the end of his wheat harvest on about 1200 acres of dry-land, soft white win...
Albacore Tuna: A Micro-Cannery Flourishes Cooking Up a Story Paul Kujala of Skipanon Brand Seafood fishes for albacore tuna, salmon and sturgeon. The post Albacore Tuna: A Micro-Cannery Flo...
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A Traditional Old-Style Butcher Cooking Up a Story Tracy Smaciarz, a second generation old-style butcher, sees his profession as an endangered species, but one he hopes will come back. Smaci...
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