So, it’s no wonder that Portland has an exceptional selection of bakeries and cafés specializing in the treat. Here are some ...

If you’re outside the Pacific Northwest, you may never have tried the marionberry — a juicy, flavorful berry beloved in Oregon, a cross between two blackberry varietals. (The Olallie and Chehalem, for ...

Hawthorne Street Cafe, 3354 SE Hawthorne Blvd., 235-8286. Begin the day at the cheerily domestic Hawthorne Street Cafe, which serves stolidly thick and hearty wheat cakes—a bit dry, perhaps—with huge ...

Ice cream entrepreneur Victoria Lai recently unveiled MarionBerry, the latest summer flavor at her Yards Park shop Ice Cream Jubilee. The deep blue scoops have a distinct, tangy flavor from the Oregon ...

Summertime brings a bounty of everyone's favorite family of fruit, berries. While you can get many types of berries all year round, like strawberries and blueberries, there are certain varieties, like ...

Blackberries grow so voraciously in the Pacific Northwest that it's not rare to stumble across rural barns or abandoned homes that have been completely consumed by the thorny vine. Let them grow too ...

For medical reasons, most of you don't remember the ignominious year of 2009. But back in that cowardly and terrible year, a farmer named Larry Duyck singlehandedly cowed the pusillanimous legislators ...

OPB’s “Superabundant” explores the stories behind the foods of the Pacific Northwest with videos, articles and this weekly newsletter. To keep you sated between episodes, we’ve brought on food writer ...

A proposal to name the marionberry as the official berry of the US west coast state of Oregon has been scuppered by a grower of a rival berry type. The Oregonian newspaper said the resolution was ...