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How valuable, and volatile, crabbing can be along the Oregon Coast
The 2022 Dungeness crab season was the most lucrative in Oregon history. Unusually for recent years, it started on time, yields were high and prices soared, leading to a boon for commercial crabbers and the coastal communities that depend on them.

Superabundant dispatch: Dungeness crab — and new videos — are now in season
In this week’s Superabundant newsletter, Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary historian and ecologist, talks about the new season of OPB’s Superabundant video series and shares a dynamite recipe for Singapore chili crab from Sibeiho Sambal co-founder Holly Ong.

Superabundant dispatch: The buffalo roam in Oregon’s brome
In this week’s Superabundant newsletter, Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary historian and ecologist, talks about how bison shaped the land farther west than previously thought, and offers a recipe for an Oregonized Korean lettuce wrap.

Superabundant dispatch: How Oregon pioneered going sober
In this week’s Superabundant newsletter, Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary historian and ecologist, shares the history of how boozy Oregon went zero-proof, and offers a recipe for a rosemary-citrusy mocktail perfect for Dry January.

Superabundant dispatch: Our favorite food stories of 2022
In this week’s Superabundant newsletter, Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary historian and ecologist, shares a roundup of 2022′s most captivating food stories from around the Northwest.

Superabundant dispatch: Portland’s historic cookie conflict
In this week’s Superabundant newsletter, Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary historian and ecologist, takes you on a tour of Portland’s history in the cookie biz, wishes a happy birthday to Oregon’s first Black journeyman baker, and offers a recipe for her plummy pflaumenmus tea cookies.

Superabundant dispatch: How to eat a tree (and a delicious apple-hazelnut cake recipe)
In this week’s Superabundant newsletter, Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary historian and ecologist, takes a look at habitat restoration in the Rogue River basin, offers tips on how to eat your Christmas tree and shares a recipe for her favorite German apple cake with hazelnut streusel.

Superabundant dispatch: Oregon’s funky fermentation revolution
In this week’s Superabundant newsletter, Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary historian and ecologist, examines the ways in which Oregon has become an epicenter for the fermentation revolution.

Superabundant dispatch: Eat like a Talokanil and celebrating fall’s weirdest fruits
In this week’s Superabundant newsletter, Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary historian and ecologist, explores the future of carnivory, the hunt to know every bee in Oregon, and how to enjoy fruits that make you work for it.

Superabundant dispatch: How Wobblies saved logging camp food
Heather Arndt Anderson, a Portland-based culinary historian and botanist, explores how the Northwest ate during war times.