leaves. Peppermint – Takes your breath away. The most flavorful and eye-watering peppermint you will ever taste. Hails from the cascade mountains in the Pacific Northwest. Russian Caravan – A bright light tea which...

Rocky Mountain Oysters at Coors Field. Perhaps not my “favorite” but definitely the most interesting ...

to fit my view of an IPA. In the last few years, I have enjoyed a good IPA brewed by Grant’s, but in the early 80s, I had never run into it. Also he does one called Hop Harvest (or something like that) just featuring fresh...

I just don’t get the hop flavor that I do with other pale ales. I usually drink Cascade Pale Ale as my session beer. It’s a little thin, but I think it has more hop presence than SN. Maybe it’s the type of hops....

I grew up in Central California, went to grad school in Eugene, Oregon, have relatives in Seatlle, and a retirement property east of the Cascades in Oregon. I don’t know about the current restaurants and wineries, but based...

much better than the commercial brands), Blue le Basque (hard to come by but terrific), Fourme d’Ambert (not expensive, but make sure it’s from raw milk), and Mountain Gorgonzola (which is Dolce but aged longer, and...

set over Bali Hai. THE most romantic setting i’ve ever seen. Menu was pacific rim. i ordered miso and just as the waitress came to serve it to me, she somehow tipped it the wrong way and send the entire bowl cascading down...

. We have a cabin in the Cascades with well water, and, while perfectly harmless, it’s so full of tannin or whatever the hell from trees that it’s orange. Undrinkable; tastes like weak tea and dirt. The stain from...

but they are on Baldwin going up mountain at the edge of town. I hope this helps and I hope you enjoy the rest of your honeymoon. David, in Iowa City

Precious" A generous portion of boneless, skin-on strips of duck breast topped by a mountain of squid, shrimp, scallops, pork, chicken, pea pods, carrots and mushrooms. At the bottom was a rich ducky broth. I think it was indeed...

' Bo’s: Classic malt shop and burger joint — Portland’s only laudable one. Uses Cascade Glacier hard ice cream, which is only decent, but they have a giant selection of sundaes, shakes, malts, floats, and so on....

Hey Peter, I hear you about the White Castles (Buy 'em by the sack). Having grown up in NY, we used to buy 100 of them for parties at $0.13 each. So they were $13. FOr a fix, White Castles are served at the Old Pro in Palo Alto....

(medium rare), with cheddar cheese and bacon, with the chips, and a Samual Adams. After lunch, we stopped, in the middle of traversing teh Sierra Nevada mountains, IN A TUNNEL, because, according to the conducter, there was a...