Anyone know where you can get chemex coffee filters on the West side? Preferably Washington Square/Progress/Scholls area? I'll call Kitchen Kaboodle, later, but can't at the moment.

Quick, DP!

I'm making vanilla extract for a few people for Christmas, and I'm in desperate need of those airtight bottles to do so! I'm looking for something like this with a resealable top(in a bottle or flash shape, I don't care), but smaller, maybe half or a quarter liter?

I've checked with Kitchen Kaboodle, Cost Plus World Market (Tigard), New Seasons, and Main Street Home Brew Supply in Hillsboro. I really don't want to buy in bulk... Kitchen Kaboodle seemed like my best choice, but they were totally out in the Metro area.


So... where, preferably in the West 'Burbs, could I find these elusive thingies?

Our local chain, Kitchen Kaboodle, is having its end-of-summer sale at all of its locations. Enjoy discounts of up to 50% on furniture, cookware, BBQ tools, glassware, and a whole...

Here?s the scoop on Kitchen Kaboodle downtown. They?ve put some stuff on sale for 50%, some for 75% ? and...

Can I please? Can I, can I??? Especially when my room is the kitchen and my new toy is this gorgeous Cuisinart BRK-200 Brick Oven Deluxe toaster oven. "Toaster oven"...it seems kind of demeaning to call this a mere toaster oven. Before this when I thought of toaster ovens I pictured those grimy little Oster numbers that litter garage sales across America. No, the BRK-200 is a serious piece of kitchen fun. Lined on the inside with pizza stone, equipped with a convection setting, heating to 500*. It kicks ass! How did I come to posses this stainless clad bit of inspiration? I have to thank Eric Ripert.

Most of you foodie types have hard of chef Eric Ripert. 4-star Chef at NYC's Le Bernardin...

A 42-year-old construction worker died when a piece of heavy machinery fell on his head near Southwest Sixth Avenue and Alder Street at about 2 p.m. today.

Another construction worker reportedly gave the man, who was bleeding profusely, CPR until paramedics arrived on the scene. They rushed the man to Oregon Health & Science University.
He was later pronounced dead.

The man's name wasn't immediately available.

The man was relocating water lines to make way for a 1.2 mile expansion of MAX along Fifth and Sixth avenues.

The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division is expected to investigate. The accident apparently happened when a steel rod on a concrete breaker, which was breaking apart the asphalt in front of Kitchen Kaboodle on Sixth Avenue, came loose and fell on the man's head, said TriMet spokeswoman Mary Fetsch.

Dozens of spectators and co-workers watched in horror. The man worked for Williams & Ryan, a subcontractor for TriMet.

-- Aimee Green
aimeegreen@news.oregonian.com

There are times when I have to pinch myself. In late October I got an e-mail from the editor of NW Palate Magazine asking if I'd be interested in interviewing Sabrina Tinsley, chef at Osteria La Spiga in Seattle. Oh, and I'd also be learning to make gnocchi with her.

After picking my jaw up off the floor, I responded in the affirmative. (Who am I kidding? I couldn't say yes fast enough!) The next week I went to their tiny warren of offices in a house just off NW 23rd and met their staff and the photographer. Then Sabrina and her husband Pietro arrived, no retinue of minions in tow, but hauling the boxes full of flour, squash, sage and implements for the gnocchi themselves.

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Random Citizen:

I do not own a car, thus taking public transportation is my primary means of getting around Portland. For the most part, I don't have many complaints about the buses, but one thing does irk me. Who at TriMet thought it was a smart move to put a driver on a route of which they're not familiar during rush hour?

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