Jim Dixon

Wellspent Market founder Jim Dixon has been writing about food and restaurants for Willamette Week for a long time. He wants our readers to eat well, and he shows them how with the recipes he creates just for us by using simple cooking techniques and easy-to-find ingredients. A confession: I’ve never called an open-faced sandwich a tartine.

Wellspent Market founder Jim Dixon has been writing about food and restaurants for Willamette Week for a long time. He wants our readers to eat well, and he shows them how with the recipes he creates just for us by using simple cooking techniques and easy-to-find ingredients. We like to think potato salad is an all-American classic. But the earliest known recipe came from Austria in the 1600s after Europeans had a hundred years of potato eating behind them.

Wellspent Market founder Jim Dixon has been writing about food and restaurants for Willamette Week for a long time. He wants our readers to eat well, and he shows them how with the recipes he creates just for us by using simple cooking techniques and easy-to-find ingredients. Beets split eaters into distinct camps: love ’em or hate ’em. Haters—like Michelle Obama, who banned them from the White House garden—cite the vegetable’s dirtlike flavor.