Kim Boyce, author of the James Beard Award-winning Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours cookbook, recently opened the quaint and cozy Bakeshop in Portland, Oregon. Fans of her cookbook are in luck: Bakeshop sells a number of items from Good to the Grain, including her chocolate chip cookies, Figgy Buckwheat scones, ginger molasses cookies, corn gruyere muffins, and maple pecan granola. Here's a peek behind the scenes. More

Unlike San Francisco or Chicago, Portland is not one of the great doughnut towns. That said, the city still offers some hidden gems for those willing to look beyond the Tang-dusted and Cocoa Puffs-encrusted. Read on to see which glorious circles of dough we crave most in Stumptown. More

It's summertime, hot sun's beating down, what do you crave? Ice cream. You've had your chocolates, your vanillas, your mint chips, your rocky roads. And those are fine. They're classics for a reason. But sometimes you want to branch out, try something a little off the beaten path. Maybe a lot off the beaten path. That's where Salt & Straw comes in. More

Triple Chocolate Penetration. Maple Blazer Blunt. Tangfastic. Miami Vice Berry. These are just a few of the quirky doughnut creations you'll find at Voodoo Doughnuts, Portland's famed independent doughnut mini-chain (they opened their third location in Eugene just this past May). It was one of the most frequent recommendations I received when I told people I was going to Portland. I didn't think it could live up to the hype, but I knew I couldn't not try a doughnut covered in Cocoa Puffs or sprinkled with Tang. More

So when is it normal to stop into a place called Burgerville twice in 24 hours and not order a burger? When the place, a popular Pacific Northwest chain, is just as well known for their seasonal milkshakes, with flavors like Pumpkin, Peach, Boysenberry, and Chocolate Hazelnut. More

You walk up to place your order at Moody's Donuts and—genius!—you see what's been whining away. On the back counter, one leg balanced on paperback book, a small automatic donut fryer is churning out sweet, hot rounds of deliciousness. Its funnel-like reservoir drops batter (a rice- and wheat-flour blend) into a narrow channel of oil, and, like clockwork, little flippers rise from the oil, turning the cake donuts and sending them on their way. More