The Mighty Gastropolis: A Journey Through the Center of America"s Food Revolution charts the rise of one of the country"s most talked about food and dining destinations, Portland, Oregon, a place former Gourmet Editor and food icon Ruth Reichl calls "the crucible of New American cooking."The author goes deep behind the scenes to explore the kitchens, personal lives, and mindsets of Portland"s celebrated cooks to chronicle, with humor and panache, a people"s army of maverick chefs, artisans, obsessives, farmers, food carters, and plucky pioneers who have created a risk-taking, no rules food town unlike any other: one that is exporting its culinary ethos, innovations, and sensibilities to America"s gastronomic power zones in New York, LA, Chicago, and countless other cities that are coming under its spell: a spell and culinary imagination that, according to Bon Appetit Restaurant and Drinks Editor, Andrew Knowlton, emanates from "a city thriving with creativity, passion, and an...