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Testing Their Takeout Skills

COCC’s Elevation restaurant is back, helping students learn the ABC’s of hospitality in a pandemic

Elevation, the restaurant at Central Oregon Community College’s Cascade Culinary Institute, has already been on foodies’ radars as a place to eat an elegant meal for a lower-than-usual price. It’s a place where budding chefs and hopeful hospitality professionals learn how to hone their skills and land a career in the industry. But when COVID-19 […]

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The Pantry: A new concept for the former Devore’s/Humble Beet location

The store’s bulk section stocks pantry items including nuts, seeds, flour and mixes such as pizza dough

A new mercantile-meets-coffee-shop is now open on Bend’s Newport Avenue. The Pantry, located in the former Devore’s and Humble Beet building, opened Jan. 8. The store’s bulk section stocks pantry items including nuts, seeds, flour and mixes such as pizza dough. “We got really excited about extending the pantry of our kitchen,” Co-owner Stephen Thompson told […]

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Intermittent Feasting

The New Year is often a time to contemplate oneโ€™s relationship with calories. After months of culturally sanctioned gluttony, we find ourselves suddenly facing a cold empty chasm with a familiar question: will we fill this void with purpose, or leftover eggnog? The pandemic holidays of 2020 were unique, of course. The usual peer-reviewed parade […]

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Restaurant Openings and Closings

Cheers to the brave souls who have opened restaurants in 2020. And farewell to the ones we lost.

Editor’s note: A correction regarding Maverick’s Country Bar and Grill is below. In the wild world that has been 2020, plenty of our beloved localโ€”and locally ownedโ€”restaurants have been hanging on by a thread. Buying takeout or braving the outdoor-dining scene can help them stay alive, but as 2020 ends, some of the places we’ve […]

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Soup Survey: Broccoli Cheese a Favorite for Source Readers

You voted. Now, here’s a reader’s favorite recipe

Over the past several weeks, the Source has been running an online survey asking locals to weigh in on their favorites among five wintertime soups. A classic tomato soup was high on the list of finalists, while French onionโ€”simple yet seemingly fancyโ€”hardly ranked at all. Beef stew, another option, didn’t get many votes, and neither […]

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Food on the Fly

Even amid restrictions, restaurants lift up others

As the world turns its attention to vaccines and the promise of a new year that will bring far better days than 2020’s, it might be easy to forget that a few short months ago, thousands of Oregonians lost their homes during one of the most destructive summer wildfire seasons the state has ever seen. […]

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Big Flavor for a Small Holiday Gathering

Roasted chicken recipes to spice up a scaled-down holiday dinner

Crook, Jefferson and Deschutes counties are among the 25 counties falling under COVID-19 “extreme risk” status, which means holiday gatherings indoors and out must be kept to six or fewer people from no more than two households. But people can still stay safe this season without going full Scrooge. Keep this year’s holiday guest list […]

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Think Outside the Pie

Swiss rolls: A pie alternative perfect for this year’s small gatherings

For a family-sized holiday dessert, think outside the pie with a swiss rollโ€”perfect for a small holiday centerpiece. Composed of a simple sponge cake and a filling such as jam and whipped cream, it offers a light dessert after a heavy holiday dinner. The only tricky part: rolling the cake so it features the signature […]

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