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Books
Dining Naturally in the Pacific
Northwest: A Guide to
Vegetarian and Natural
Food Restaurants
By Merilee Pruitt and Thomas
Yesberger
© 1978 Dining Naturally
$2.95 paperback, 87 pages.
When it comes to food, Ameri
cans are learning to take chances.
Ordinary salt and pepper has
been supplanted by kelp and
cayenne. Honey has beaten out
sugar. Carbonated beverages
(even the word beverage!) have
been replaced by juice. Not just
orange juice or tomato juice, but
apple-strawberry juice and
canteloupe-pomegranite juice.
Creative juices.
A veritable network of veg
etarian and natural food restaur
ants has sprung up. And why not?
The time has come when decent
folks from all walks of life occa
sionally prefer a home-made
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bagel paired with a ripe tomato
and cream cheese over a
chicken-fried steak.
This trend toward more health
conscious eating habits is re
flected in the publication of Dining
Naturally in the Pacific Northwest:
A Guide to Vegetarian and
Natural Food Restaurants.
Written by Merilee Pruitt and
Thomas Yesberger, who dined at
over 65 natural restaurants from
Vancouver, B. C. to Klamath Falls,
the book is designed to present an
‘ alternative guide for a natural
food conscious traveler.”
Included in the guide are
Eugene’s own Zoo-Zoo’s, the
Homefried Truckstop (Mama’s),
Gertrude’s, the Nice Cream Parlor
and the Vegetarian. Omitting the
Fountain of Juice seems like an
error. Amazingly enough, the
prices are current and the menus
are accurately represented. And
that’s really about all any guide
can do, besides letting you know
that a restaurant exists.
However, the particular political
flavors of Eugene’s natural food
restaurants aren’t captured in the
book. This omission is too bad,
because for many people, places
like Mama's and Zoo-Zoo's are
much more than natural restaur
ants, they are spiritual refuges.
But perhaps politics are irrelevant.
Tourists don't eat tofu anyway, do
they?
In short, it’s a good unpretenti
ous book but it suffers because
the authors deliberately down
played their roles as critics and
remained as inoffensive as possi
ble.
Besides, whatever happened to
that old-fashioned natural way of
finding a restaurant in a strange
town? You know stopping some
one on the street and asking,
"Where’s the nearest decent
place to eat.?’’
Dining Naturally is available in
local bookstores for $2.95 or by
writing to Dining Naturally, 8806
218th S. W. Edmonds, Wash.
98020. By Peter Leibik
Northside Gallery
Ceramics
Bob James and Richard Wan
derman
If you haven’t jogged or bicycled
along the bike path between
Franklin Boulevard and the Wil
lamette River, you probably aren’t
aware of the Northside Gallery. In
fact, even if you have traveled the
route you still might have missed
it.
Just west of the bike path, the
inconspicuous Northside Gallery
opened in January. Its smaller
size provides an intimate campus
alternative to the University art
museum and the Fine Art Gallery
in Lawrence Hall.
“Northside is an opportunity for
people to display their art in smal
ler, less formal, more innovative
atmosphere,” says Laurie Kovac,
one of the students involved in
making Northside a viable gallery.
“It’s impossible for under
graduates to show their work in
the museum and the Lawrence
gallery is used for extensive MFA
and BFA efforts," Kovac adds.
‘‘We see Northside as a place
where students can more readily
show their work.”
Under the direction of weaving
instructor Barbara Setsu Pickett,
students Kovac, Lisa McDowell,
Theresa Boock and Holly Hutton
currently provide the physical
sustenance for the new gallery.
With funds typically scarce, these
four women, who also comprise
the gallery’s selection committee,
have had to occasionally contri
bute some of their own money to
supplement the money earned
through sales and other fund
raising activities.
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“We re in the process now of
planning a winter term benefit
party to raise money for both the
Northside and Lawrence gal
leries,” remarks McDowell. “We
want to become self-sufficient."
Fiscal restraints notwithstand
ing, Northside supporters con
cede one of their main problems is
exposure. A former anthropology
quonset north of Franklin
Boulevard isn’t exactly high visibil
ity real estate.
“We want students to know the
gallery is not exclusively for art
students,” McDowell em
phasizes. “We encourage any
student doing presentable art to
come over and talk with us; we're
open to suggestions. And al
though faculty members do ex
hibit here, we wanto stress priority
for student work.”
The variability of past Northside
exhibitions reflects the gallery's
encouragement of innovation. In
addition to more traditional media,
Northside has featured edible art
works.
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A ceramics show featuring Bobl
James, former fine arts depart
ment chairman, and graduate
student Richard Wanderman, is
currently exhibiting at Northside
James' pieces, his first work in
years, are small and fragile. Un
glazed, hand sculpted and
mounted on found materials of
wood and string, they exude an
unalytical simplicity, creating
spaces that complement
Northside's intimacy.
In contrast, Wanderman's co
vered pieces are more elaborate
in their utilization of Raku and
salt-fired processes. His incorpo
ration of such modern material
elements as Perlon and Gortex —
both mountaineering equipment
materials — present interesting
aesthetic questions to be resolved
by the viewer.
Northside hours are noon to 5
p.m. Monday-Friday. Persons in
terested in exhibiting at Northside
should call Barbara Pickett at
686-3658. By Richard Lee
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