Cookbooks at the Farmers Market; Spirit's Food Menu

DOWNTOWN/PSU—It's the season of Portland restaurant cookbooks, so the PSU location of the farmer's market will host its first-ever "Cookbook Festival" this Saturday, October 12. Authors like John Gorham and Liz Crain (Toro Bravo), Gabe Rucker and Andrew Fortgang (Le Pigeon), and Portland Monthly's Karen Brooks (The Mighty Gastropolis) will be on-hand, and several others will cook up recipes on the demo stage. More information here. [EaterWire]

NORTHEAST— Serious Eats takes a look at the new food menu at Blazer-fan hangout Spirit of 77. Among the "gourmet stoner food" offers are Texas-style nachos and Olympic Provisions' version of a "Slim Jim." [Serious Eats]

NORTHEAST—The activist famous for collecting free chalupa coupons during Blazers games to donate to the homeless says he won't continue with the Moda Center's new McDonald's promotion. Jessie Sponberg writes that "I wouldn't give a McMuffin to my worst enemy." [We Out Here via WW]

Photo of Portland Farmers Market courtesy wanderingone via Flickr