COASTDINING
For friends and lovers
Get creative with the spreads you concoct to pair with bread.
DELGADO
DR.
JAMES
Columbia River Shipwreck Conference
A variety of speakers will present topics on shipwreck research &
discoveries from the Pacific Northwest & around the world. The Keynote,
maritime archaeologist James Delgado, will
discuss the final frontier of maritime archaeology
in the extreme deep. Afternoon session will include
presentations on local shipwrecks, Spanish
shipwrecks & their survivors, & the quest to discover
whether Francis Drake landed on the Oregon coast.
Columbia River Maritime Museum
February 08, 2020
Starts at 10am
For Info & Tickets : maritimearchaeological.org/columbia-river-shipwreck-conference
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A date night meal
BY DAVID CAMPICHE
‘Oh what excellent combinations are
Chambertin and Roquefort, both to
revive love and to bring to prompt
maturity a budding love.’
— Casanova
Roquefort cheese, or its inception, seems
to be lost to history. Pliny the Elder, the his-
torian who witnessed the eruption of Ves-
pucci in the fi rst century A.D, refers to the
noble cheese as a Roman favorite.
That is as it should be, for the cheese
sold as Stilton in England or blue in the
United States is a worldwide favorite. Only
the region of Roquefort in rural France
can claim actual dominion. But wherever
that happens, those marauding blue veins
of decay turn the cheese into a palate-ex-
ploding sensation. Eaten on a slice of fresh
baked sourdough bread, in a baguette sand-
wich — or simply on crisp crackers — one
ventures into the Twilight Zone of the sub-
lime. Sauces blended with this cheese are
rich and unexpected.
Casanova mentions Chambertin as the
perfect companion to this historical cheese.
As a Frenchman, he qualifi es as a wor-
thy judge. About 50 years ago, I was lucky
enough to study in France. On my second
day in Paris, I stumbled upon a cheese mar-
ket that ran down both sides of a closed
street for four blocks, each cheese seem-
ingly individual. An epidemic of cheese
adoration sweeps through this country of
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