Liz Crain

John Gorham

This collection of recipes from the Tasty restaurants in Portland take you through the day, from brunch through cocktails. The recipes are designed to give a good yield so that you have plenty to share, and also to experiment with. Gorham and Crain also provide tips for variations, encouraging you to experiment with the recipes so that they will become your own kitchen staples.

Global Diner Favorites from Portland's Tasty Restaurants

Hello! My Name Is Tasty

At the heart of Portland’s red-hot food scene is Toro Bravo, a Spanish-inspired restaurant whose small plates have attracted a fiercely loyal fan base. But to call Toro Bravo a Spanish restaurant doesn’t begin to tell the whole story. For chef John Gorham, each dish reflects a time, a place, a moment. For Gorham, food is more than mere sustenance. The Toro Bravo cookbook is an honest look behind the scenes: from Gorham’s birth to a teenage mother who struggled with drug addiction, to time spent in his grandfather’s crab-shack dance club, to formative visits to Spain, to becoming a father and opening a restaurant. Toro Bravo also includes 95 of the restaurant’s recipes, from simple salads to homemade chorizo, along with an array of techniques that will appeal to both the home cook and the most seasoned, forearm-burned chef.

Stories. Recipes. No Bull.

Toro Bravo

With a Table Exhibiting in Parallel Columns the Names of All the Teeth, the Instruments Required for Their Extraction, and the Most Approved Methods of Using Them

John Gorham

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