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EW ’s
gift guide 2007
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W
hat’s the hottest new word this
year? Tase? Mumblecore?
Cougar?
Heck, no. Those are just the runners-up.
Instead, The New Oxford American
Dictionary folks picked locavore as the
word to know. A locavore eats local food,
and in the Willamette Valley, locavores are
blessed with options. Some of these options
might come from a bit more than 100 miles
away, but they’re not grown and packaged
in Thailand, New Zealand or even Canada;
they’re from Oregon. And we homers love
saying that when we prepare our holiday
feasts and wrap our holiday gifts.
Of course, gift-givers might have grown
their own berries and made jam with honey
from the Saturday Market, but just in case, the
Holiday Market offers up excellent jam in its
first couple of weeks with Byrd’s Basket ,
where jam and jelly-maker Marilyn Byrd
serves up everything fruited and preserved
from dreamy apricot to spicy jalapeño treats.
Fern’s Edge Goat Dairy from
Lowell also perks up the Holiday Market
with luscious cheese from its herd of goats,
who thrive with biodynamic farming tech-
niques under the watchful and hardworking
eyes of proprietor Andhi Reyna. Mmmm,
the pesto with pine nuts … the herb garlic
rolls … the logs of plain cheese that would
go remarkably well with Byrd’s spicier
offerings on that holiday table. So would the
fromage blanc from Alsea Acre Goat
Cheese , which, if you miss the cheese at
the Holiday Market, you can pick up in the
Sweet Cheeks Winery tasting room
(along with some wine, of course).
For omega-3 lovers, a meal wouldn’t be
complete without a taste of the sea. The Coos
Bay-based Pisces Fishing Vessel brings
its zero bycatch, sustainable, line-caught and
hand-canned products to the Holiday
Market, where Sally or Daryl Bogardus can
show you photos and regale you with the
tales of their adventures on the seas. The
Bogardus family offers gift packs of
Smoked Albacore , Smoked Wild
Chinook Salmon and Albacore
with Garlic and Jalapeño for friends
and family far away, and if you somehow
miss them at the market, you can snag some
cans from the Kiva, where they far outshine
the other albacore tuna and salmon available.
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Eugene Weekly’s Gift Guide 2007