Welcome to Portland Salad Week

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Welcome to the inaugural Portland Salad Week! We are happy to dedicate this week on Bridgetown Bites to celebrating salad in its many forms, highlighting some of the delicious salads you can eat in Portland, ways to make your own salad at home with Portland ingredients, and what’s tasty to kids and adults alike. As we’ve come to understand through this project, salad is a wonderful vehicle for creativity; there are many out there with tasty and memorable flavors, texture, and ingredients. 

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Portland Salad Week: the Details

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As I mentioned last week, here at Bridgetown Bites we are presenting Salad Week from June 6 to 10, 2022. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun and the more I write about the salads in Portland the more interesting they become to me. Salad is something with so much variety—it’s not just a side dish of lettuce, tomato, and cucumber (though that still sounds tasty; my younger self would have enjoyed some Marie Callender’s Thousand Island dressing on it, too). It’s any mix of veg, fruit, meat, fish, dairy, nuts, grains and probably other things I’m unaware of. Seriously, the options are plenty.

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The Inaugural Portland Salad Week Arrives June 2022

You’ve heard of Dumpling Week, Pizza Week, Burger Week and all the others—now get ready for Salad Week! From June 6 to 10, Bridgetown Bites will spend that week celebrating the salad in Portland—and our fair city is chock full of great ones. During Salad Week, I’ll also be joined here by my friend and colleague Judith, who also loves salad and Portland’s great food world.

We’d also love to hear from you about your favorite salads in the area. Fill out this form, and we’ll share some of your responses during Salad Week.

So stay tuned—we can’t wait to share our love of PDX salad with you!

Salad Week
Monday, June 6 to Friday, June 10, 2022
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