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Savor the Americas, bite by spicy bite
March 2010
Ignacio del Solar was raised in Peru but trained under Hackett in San Francisco before opening Del Inti in Portland (503-288-8191, delinti.com). Instead of steaming quinoa, a Peruvian staple, the chef now prepares the grain as if it were risotto, then studs it with mushrooms from Northwest forests. Local halibut and salmon compose the base for his ceviche rather than the marlin he might use in Peru.
“When you move to a new place, you learn to adapt,” del Solar says. “Every cuisine has something to offer.”
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High Fives
October 21, 2009
[Listed under category “FIVE GOOD NON-STEAKHOUSE STEAKS”]
Del Inti: The hanger steak “saltado” comes with taters and, oddly, soy sauce.
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Under the Incan Sun
April 2009
Potatoes and chiles from the Incas. Limes, cheeses, and olives from the Spaniards. Soy and ginger from the Chinese. Seafood from the Japanese. Combinations that at first may sound like a gimmick in nouveau cuisine are in fact the savory-sweet (and little-known) hallmarks of Peruvian food. Read the full article |
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Captain Beef Heart
December 3, 2008
To the right kind of eyes, no more enticing pair of words can be printed on a menu than “beef heart.” There’s a savage appeal to ingesting a bloody symbol of another animal’s vitality, which by its very name seems so much closer to the lusty, violent truth of carnivorousness than most of the disembodied cuts we encounter. Plus, it tastes like really good steak.
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Neighborhood: Alberta
Once one of Portland’s poorer areas, time and gentri—er, did we promise never to use that again?—have changed Alberta Street into one of the city’s main attractions.
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