Sophie's Food Blog

My favorite food cart in Portland

Welcome to my food blog!

I am very excited to be doing this assignment and throughly enjoy discovering what really goes into making the food that I eat. This assignment comes at a particularly interesting time for me because I will be doing my 24 hours of food blogging while visiting home in Portland. Portland is an interesting city when it comes to food. Comprised of food cart pods, fancy restaurants, vegan restaurants, fast food, Mexican food, and many other types as well the gastronomical scene is certainly an interesting one.

Within Portland there is an interesting set of dynamics and social constructs around food. Many people in Portland have enthusiastically adopted freeganism, (http://freegan.info/) that began in San Francisco in the 1990s with a strong anti-consumerist ideology. This is just one of Portland’s peculiarities when it comes to food. Many people have their own chickens, goats, pigs, even within city limits. That said, there is also a plethora of Grocery outlets (http://groceryoutlet.com/), Winco, Costco etc that sell less environmentally conscious products, and they are certainly not going out of business.

I am excited to completing this assignment in such a dynamic environment when it comes to food and look forward to telling you all about it!

And here is an adorable picture of my boyfriend’s Persian kitty