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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2017 Food cart downtown goes local with sausage Sasquatch serves up creativity at Astoria Station By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian On a frosty Wednesday night, Miles Peacock and Mari Inaba found themselves alone in the lot outside Reach Break Brewing. The two business partners seasoned, ground and pumped 30 pounds worth of pork butt into pig intestine cas- ings, twisting them into 6-inch, 1/3-pound sausages inside their green, nondescript, 128-square- foot food cart. Last weekend, Peacock and Inaba debuted Sasquatch Sau- sage, the fi rst in a nascent food cart pod forming outside the brewery as part of the new food and drink destination, Astoria Station. Peacock, an experienced butcher most recently of Gul- ley’s Butcher Shop in down- town Astoria, said he enjoys the creativity in endless varieties of sausage. He and Inaba met at Gulley’s. “He kind of taught me how to do it, and we were making sausages and thinking, ‘Wow; these are selling really well, you know. We could probably do a sausage cart,’” Inaba said. Peacock said he relishes lift- ing the veil behind how the sau- sages are made, using locally sourced meats, spices, herbs and other ingredients the pair spend several hours a week grinding up and pumping into Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian Miles Peacock and Mari Inaba prepare beer bratwurst in their new food truck Sasquatch Sausage, located outside Reach Break Brewing in Astoria. their locally sourced intestinal casings. A minimal menu The menu is minimal to start out. The beer bratwurst, mixed with Reach Break’s India pale ale, comes with sauerkraut cooked down in apple cider with ground caraway seeds and a top- ping of grilled apples. The pork Korean dog comes topped with sesame-marinated bean sprouts and gochujang, a fermented, spicy Korean condiment. The sausages come served in rolls from Astoria’s Home Bakery. “Everything I’ve read on food carts is … don’t stretch yourself too thin,” Inaba said. “So while we have a million ideas on different types of sau- sages, let’s just do a couple and see how that goes, see if people like it.” The two hope to add bour- bon beef, spicy Italian, far- ro -and-mushroom veggie and breakfast sausages. “The beauty of it is, we’re not buying cases of premade sausages, so we’ll make a 10-pound batch, and see how it sells, if people like it,” Inaba said. “And we can keep making that 10-pound batch, or we can switch it up and do something else.” The cart’s hours are loosely based around Reach Break, opening from noon to 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and noon to 6 p.m. Sundays and Mondays. Peacock said he is excited about the developing cluster of busi- nesses s round Astoria Station . “I have total faith that within a year, this is going to be an amaz- ing spot,” he said. Astoria Station Sasquatch Sausage will soon be joined by Hot Box BBQ, a food cart with two locations in Portland run by Daniel and Abbie Rhoads, who are moving to Astoria . “I think it’s great,” Dan- iel Rhoads said of Astoria Sta- tion. “It’s kind of like the food carts in Portland are doing, try- ing to pair with brewers. It’s sort of a restaurant with a variety of choices , a place where people come to gather.” The cart the couple are bring- ing has been parked outside Port- land’s Base Camp Brewing. The couple is also bringing a catering truck Daniel Rhoads said they had increasingly been driving out to the coast for weddings and other events. He said Hot Box should be open by early March , offering pulled pork, chicken and barbecue tofu dishes. Charles and Leigh LeMay, who recently relocated to Asto- ria from Houston, are starting the two-seat Astoria Barber in a 165-square-foot corner store- front at the Astoria Station next to Reveille Ciderworks. “We’re going to do men’s haircuts and grooming,” Charles LeMay said. “We’ll have a small retail selections of men’s product’s.” Leigh LeMay, who still helps run a chain of salons in Texas, said there seemed to be a demand for haircuts in Asto- ria. The two will start building out the storefront next week and hope to open in mid-April. Claudine Gregory, the widow of late Astoria Station founder Warren Williams, said there will also be a Thai food cart coming to Astoria Station, after which she will see how they do before adding any more. Once every- one is in place, she said, Astoria Station will hold a grand open- ing to honor Williams. “This is Warren’s vision,” she said. “I’m just fi nishing it for him.” Oregon offi cials react to prospect of likely federal pot crackdown By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — Oregon law- makers have condemned a White House statement sug- gesting the U.S. Justice Department will enforce the federal prohibition on recre- ational marijuana in states that have legalized it. When Oregonians legal- ized recreational pot in 2014, they knew there was a risk of a federal crackdown with future presidential administra- tions, said state Senate Major- ity Leader Ginny Burdick, D-Portland. “The approach we’re tak- ing is to have effective regu- lations and to stamp out the black market to the extent that we can,” said Burdick, who is co-chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Marijuana Regulation. “We really want to have the kind of program that will, if they do decide to enforce, put us at the bottom of their list.” The comment by White House spokesman Sean Spicer Thursday marks the strongest indication so far of a potential crackdown on recreational use of the drug, The Associated Press reported. It came even as a new survey showed most Americans believe cannabis should be legal. “I do believe you’ll see greater enforcement of it,” Spicer said in response to a reporter’s question at a White House briefi ng . He suggested enforcement would target only recreational marijuana, as Congress has passed laws to protect medical use. “I am hoping they come to their senses because you know with the recent election cycle that put Trump in offi ce it also put marijuana in place in a number of states, includ- ing in California, which is the sixth largest economy in the world,” Burdick said of the Trump administration. Spicer’s comment confl icts with the administration’s claim that it favors states’ rights, said U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Or- egon. For instance, the admin- istration announced a day ear- lier it would allow states to decide the issue of transgender restroom access. “I urge the Trump adminis- tration to follow its own rhet- oric on ‘state s’ rights,’ and to respect the voters of Oregon and the many other states who have decided at the ballot to legalize recreational marijuana use,” Merkley said. Oregon Attorney Gen- eral Ellen Rosenblum said she would explore options for protecting voters’ decision to legalize recreational pot and work with attorney gener- als in other states with simi- lar laws. “In my role as state AG, I plan to continue to work hard to make sure Oregon’s grow- ing marijuana industry fl our- ishes,” Rosenblum said. She said she would pre- fer to focus Oregon’s limited law enforcement resources on more dangerous drugs and crimes of violence. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, echoed that senti- ment during a visit to Medford Thursday. “Wasting taxpayer dollars and burdening our law-en- forcement agencies to go after law-abiding recreational mar- ijuana users distracts from going after criminals and threats to our safety. I will fi ght hard against ridiculous federal government intrusions into our state,” Wyden said via text message . 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