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This Right at the Fork Classic comes from July of 2016, and our conversation with Lisa Schroeder. ORIGINAL POST: Chris feels that Lisa Schroeder should be cited as "Portland's Official Mother."  Lisa visits the RATF studios to talk about the challenges of running a packed Portland culinary institution, especially in light of a the increased responsibilities she's taken on to provide love and care to her grandchildren.  Lisa shares some stories and grief of the loss of her beloved daughter, Stephanie. Photo by Tim Sugden, About Face Magazine. Right at the Fork is supported by: Zupan's Markets: www.zupans.com RingSide Steakhouse: www.RingSideSteakhouse.com  San Pellegrino: www.SanPellegrino.com

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On the news that Lisa Schroeder was named the Oregon Small Business Person of the Year for 2023, we felt it necessary to bring back our conversation with Lisa from January of this year.   Chef Lisa Schroeder of Mother's Bistro has had a very challenging few years.  The most recent upset was when her bank wouldn't honor refunding the money on checks written to her bank account number under someone else's name, simply because she didn't report the problem soon enough.  This comes on the heels of a tumultuous few years after 23 years in business  In 2018, she went through the process of moving Mother's to its new location not long before the pandemic hit.  Her location, in the middle of downtown where meth use is prolific, isn't the only challenge. She's required in her lease to be open 7 days a week, since her restaurant serves the hotel in the same building.  Lisa talks to us about the outlook for her business in the face of rising costs and new Portland dining and working patterns as well as restaurants as a whole, wherever they may be. Lisa is one of Portland's most outspoken restaurant owners, and she's always a great interview.   Right at the Fork is supported by: Zupan's Markets: www.Zupans.com Oregon Dungeness Crab: www.OregonDungeness.org  RingSide Steakhouse: www.RingSideSteakhouse.com Portland Food Adventures: www.PortlandFoodAdventures.com 

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comAfter sustaining “the atom bomb I needed to follow my passion” (her imminent layoff, her husband having an affair), Lisa Schroeder went to cooking school and, in 2000, opened Mother's Bistro in Portland, Oregon. From day one the place was packed, everyone wanting what Schroder calls “Mother Food” – meatloaf and gravy, chicken & dumplings, and a brunch t…

Chef Lisa Schroeder of Mother's Bistro has had a very challenging few years.  The most recent upset was when her bank wouldn't honor refunding the money on checks written to her bank account number under someone else's name, simply because she didn't report the problem soon enough.  This comes on the heels of a tumultuous few years after 23 years in business  In 2018, she went through the process of moving Mother's to its new location not long before the pandemic hit.  Her location, in the middle of downtown where meth use is prolific, isn't the only challenge. She's required in her lease to be open 7 days a week, since her restaurant serves the hotel in the same building.  Lisa talks to us about the outlook for her business in the face of rising costs and new Portland dining and working patterns as well as restaurants as a whole, wherever they may be.   Lisa is one of Portland's most outspoken restaurant owners, and she's always a great interview.   Right at the Fork is supported by: Zupan's Markets: www.Zupans.com RingSide Steakhouse: www.RingSideSteakhouse.com Portland Food Adventures: www.PortlandFoodAdventures.com 

From food carts to downtown restaurants, Portland business owners tell KATU revenue is low.That includes Mother's Bistro. Despite weekend brunch crowds, the owner said she's been struggling ever since reopening from the pandemic in the summer of 2021."It has not just been an unusually slow December, it's just been unusually slow. The business has not picked up since Covid. Downtown is still pretty quiet. We don't get breakfast or lunch business during the week, we don't get dinner business hardly at all," Lisa Schroeder said.Schroeder said she started doing Tik Tok videos to show people the types of food served at her restaurant.Support the showSign Up For Exclusive Episodes At: https://reasonabletv.com/LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos every day. https://www.youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople

In the early days of the pandemic, the city of Portland's transportation department created programs to provide restaurants with outdoor seating that would have otherwise not been allowed. Some streets were partially blocked to accommodate dining spaces outside, which was in many cases the safest form of dine-in service. Now the department has been directed to prepare to make these special outdoor seating arrangements permanent. Safety, ADA compliance and private use of public spaces are among the issues that need to be worked out — and funded by the city council. We're joined by the head of the Portland Department of Transportation, Chris Warner to hear more about these plans. And two restaurant owners share the role that outdoor dining has played in their businesses: Lisa Schroeder of Mother's Bistro and Bar, and Carlo Lamagna of Magna.

Once again, Lisa Schroeder joins us to discuss the challenges she's had to navigate at home and at her restaurant, Mother's Bistro. Lisa invested her life savings and so much energy into her new, larger location prior to the pandemic. Now that business requires a lot more of everything from staff, to money and yes, customers.  Lisa talks about all the challenges the last two years have presented, including financing to keep the business rolling (and how she procured grants to keep things going), staffing shortages and her take on today's industry work ethic and what it takes to work at Mother's.  We also talk about the vandalism her restaurant has sustained, what the city might do to turn things around, and operating an establishment that surely relied on tourism... without tourism.  Lisa also shares with us that she and her husband Rob have raised her grandchildren right through the pandemic WITH NO KITCHEN AT HOME!!!  You couldn't write this.   We also hear from Lisa what some of her favorite spots are in Portland, and where she and Rob eat these days.     Right at the Fork is supported by: Zupan's Markets: www.zupans.com RingSide Steakhouse: www.RingSideSteakhouse.com

Trish chats it up with the owner and Executive Chef of Mother's Bistro Bar in Portland, Oregon. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Lisa Schroeder talks about growing up in a Jewish family and that cooking is simply in her blood. Before she was born, her mother owned a small, but wildly successful restaurant and Lisa would tend to adopt neighborhood Jewish families for Friday Sabbath dinners. She moved to Israel at a young age, got married and pregnant and moved back to the states before her husband could get drafted for the Israeli army. After several years of being in an abusive marriage, she got out and started creating a life for herself. Lisa kept coming back to cooking, doing catering on the side, and said it all started to take shape when she went to culinary school. "Mother's" was an idea 8-years in the making and her story is one of resiliency, courage, strength and focusing on the lessons learned when life deals you blow after blow. As she stated over and over, her restaurant and everything she strives for in life is "all about the love."

Read more and view photos on my website.Lisa Schroeder is executive chef and owner of Mother's Bistro & Bar. She is a mother, grandmother, chef, restaurateur and author devoted to providing better-than-authentic renditions of traditional home-cooked dishes at her popular, award-winning restaurant. Mother's has grown over the years from a charming 90-seat restaurant on Stark Street to a gorgeous 200-seat Portland institution in the Embassy Suites by Hilton Hotel. Chosen Restaurant of the Year by Portland's Willamette Week; Best Comfort Food, Best Brunch, and Best Lunch Spot by numerous publications; and one of America's Top Restaurant Bargains by Food and Wine, Mother's Bistro & Bar is a destination spot for Portland.Mother's was not an overnight success, even though it opened to rave reviews. Back in 1992, while juggling a marketing career and raising her daughter, Lisa realized no restaurants were making comfort food. She dreamed of a place that would serve “Mother Food” – slow-cooked dishes made with love. Lisa was determined to open such a restaurant and spent the next eight years working toward that dream.She enrolled at The Culinary Institute of America, where she was selected as one of the Top Ten Student Chefs in America by Food and Wine. After graduating with honors, she continued honing her skills at two four-star restaurants, Lespinasse and Le Cirque. Her education continued in Provence, France at Roger Verge's Moulin des Mougins and at Mark Veyrat's L'Auberge de L'Eridan in Haute Savoie. At one point she was working 90 hours a week in two jobs, as a chef and a waiter, so she could afford to live in New York City.While working all over Europe, she realized the only way to truly understand regional cuisine was to go into the homes where mothers cooked. When she met her husband, Rob Sample, she relocated to Portland and continued planning her restaurant. She opened Mother's in 2000. The first year she received “Restaurant of the Year” award from Willamette Week. “Mother's serves home cooking from mothers around the world, and each month we feature the cuisine of a different mother...I wanted to have motherly staples, pot roast, chicken and dumplings, meatloaf and matzo ball soup, chopped liver, pierogis. So basically, if a mother would make it, we would serve it.”Lisa has been providing health benefits for her staff from day one, way before Obamacare. She also provides vacation and a 401K with a 3 percent match. Lisa  read about the pandemic and began to make preparations for providing takeout food. But after staying open became untenable, on June 5, 2020, she made the decision to close the restaurant. Even though they were closed for over a year, most of her staff has returned as they've reopened.I asked Lisa what it's like to be a woman in the food industry. “Everybody doubts you. They think you're not capable. You won't be able to lift...you always start from a disadvantaged position where people have preconceived notions about your abilities, and then, especially working in four-star kitchens as an older woman in my 30s."We also spoke about the future of downtown Portland (it's coming back!), her philosophy of sustainable food systems (like a good mother, she lets nothing go to waste!), how she gives back to her community.I asked Lisa what advice she has for people who want to create companies that care.“Well, you have to care...be a human being and don't treat your people like a number, or that they're disposable or replaceable. Cherish each one and what they can bring to the company and the cause…Treat people with humanity…if you treat people well, they will respect you and treat you well…you'll get their devotion and loyalty.”

Read more and view photos here.Lisa Schroeder is a mother, grandmother, chef, restaurateur and author devoted to providing better-than-authentic renditions of traditional home-cooked dishes at her popular, award-winning restaurant, Mother's Bistro & Bar. Lisa is an incredibly hard worker, as all executive chefs are, and she had to work twice as hard as a woman in the kitchen, to be taken seriously. Tragically, five years ago her beloved daughter died in a hiking accident. Now she's a mother without a living child, which is especially bittersweet given that she's built an outstanding brand around being a mother and honoring mothers. Mother's was not an overnight success, even though it opened to rave reviews. Back in 1992, while juggling a marketing and catering career and raising her daughter, Lisa realized no restaurants were making comfort food. She dreamed of a place that would serve “Mother Food” – slow-cooked dishes, such as braises and stews, made with love. From that moment on, Lisa was determined to open such a restaurant and spent the next eight years working toward that dream.A gem on Portland's restaurant scene (they serve 1,000 people between 8:00 a.m and 2:30 p.m. on Sundays), Mother's has always been a personal favorite of mine. Lisa also kept herself fully occupied during the pandemic by homeschooling her grandchildren. Tragically, Lisa's daughter Stephanie, mother of four, died in a hiking accident in 2016 at the age of 36. Lisa shares guardianship with their father.“It's hard enough to be a mother the second time around, but then again, to have to be the teacher was brutal, but they are such good boys and such good kids that it couldn't have gone any better, thanks to them and their sweet nature. I'm grateful I had the time to be able to spend with them and get them through this tough time in a positive way…without them I probably wouldn't have a reason to go on.”The whole city mourned when Lisa, mother of mothers, lost her beloved daughter at such a young age.“It's really hard to have a restaurant called Mother's and I don't even have my daughter…it's especially hard at Mother's Day when everybody is celebrating mothers. My whole raison d'etre is to celebrate mothers, and I have nothing to celebrate on that day. It's a very tough day for me, so when COVID was still here this Mother's Day, I actually was glad I didn't have to go to work and get through that day.”I asked Lisa what it's like to be a woman in the food industry.“Everybody doubts you. They think you're not capable. You won't be able to lift. You won't be able to hang and you always start from a disadvantaged position where people have preconceived notions about your abilities, and then, especially working in four-star kitchens as an older woman in my 30s. I had people expecting me to fail and wanting me to fail and so if there was a pot to carry, I never asked for help. If I had something on the stove, they might turn the burner down for their fellow males, but they'll let mine burn on the stove. I was put to the test a lot and had to be the best, twice as good as the next guy, just to show how good I can be. It's very challenging to be a woman in a kitchen, and that's why anytime a female cook comes to me, I'm eager to give them a chance because I think women are amazing in a kitchen. We were born to juggle many balls, have the baby on our arm, answer the phone, make the dinner and you know, talk to the gardener or something. We're made to multitask.”

This week on the Finding Fertile Ground podcast, I interview Melissa Pierce, who I met through Rock Voices Portland, a 140-voice strong rock choir led by my friends Mark and Caley Barstow. Rock Voices' theme is “healing through song,” which Melissa and I discuss on this podcast. Melissa was faced with a huge crisis in her 40s: she lost her beloved husband unexpectedly and became a single mom in that moment. Now she dedicates her time to supporting other widows, providing the support and guidance she wished she had when she first became a widow.Melissa grew up not too far from where I did in Tigard, Oregon. She met her husband Dave when they became roommates and then fell in love with each other. After experiencing infertility, they decided to foster children to adopt. They adopted their two sons, Brad and Bryce, and became a family.When Dave got a great job opportunity to teach music in eastern Oregon, they moved to LaGrande. Melissa was able to work remotely and Dave began teaching in a nearby town. The boys settled in, and the family benefited from a tight-knit community that helped them raise their two sons.One night after a dinner out with friends, Dave wasn't feeling well. He went to bed early and suggested Melissa sleep on the couch so she wouldn't catch whatever he had. In the morning, Melissa found him dead in their bed.Suddenly thrown into widowhood in her 40s with two young sons to raise, Melissa experienced shock, despair, and depression, eventually finding she was seeking solace in alcohol. Even though their community in eastern Oregon rallied behind them in the aftermath of Dave's death, Melissa decided to move back to Tigard to be closer to her family.A year and a half later, she missed having a partner. She wrote down everything she wanted in a partner and sent her intention out into the world. Soon she met Sean, and he fulfilled 83 percent of her list!  Listen to the podcast to hear their wonderful love story. Melissa found great solace and healing in music and other forms of self-care. She sought out a way to sing again, since she and Dave used to sing together, and landed on Rock Voices, where she was delighted to befriend other widows.Now Melissa's sons are grown and she's using what she has learned to help other widows. She is creating the resources she wished she had back in 2011. She has written a book about what she learned, Filled with Gold, and has a subscription box for widows. On her website you'll also find a self-care guide for widows and another one that teaches you how to support widows in your life.Next week on the Companies That Care podcast, I interview I'm switching up my schedule a bit and featuring Lisa Schroeder, founder and owner of hometown favorite Mother's Bistro and Bar here in Portland, Oregon. I've long been a huge fan of Mother's and Lisa, and she has long used her restaurant space for causes she believes in. The Finding Fertile Ground podcast is brought to you by Fertile Ground Communications. If you enjoyed this podcast, please give us a rating and subscribe to hear our next episode. Contact us if you can use some help with your writing, editing, communications, or marketing. With 30 years of experience in the environmental consulting industry, I am passionate about sustainability and corporate citizenship, equity & inclusion, businesses that use their power for good, and doing everything I can to create a kinder, more sustainable, and just world. We help organizations and people discover what makes them special and help them share that with the world. 

Lisa Schroeder is Executive Chef and Owner of Mother’s Bistro Bar, in Portland, Oregon. She is a mother, grandmother, chef, restaurateur and author devoted to providing better-than-authentic renditions of traditional home-cooked dishes at her popular, award-winning restaurant.While at the Culinary Institute of America, she was selected as one of the Top Ten Student Chefs in America by Food and Wine Magazine. After graduating with honors in 1995, she continued honing her skills at two four-star restaurants in New York City – Lespinasse and Le Cirque. Her education continued with apprenticeships in Provence, France, at Roger Verge’s Moulin des Mougins and at Mark Veyrat’s L’Auberge de L’Eridan in Haute Savoie.In 2009, Schroeder released her critically acclaimed cookbook, Mother’s Best, and appeared on the Today Show, QVC and more. She is the recipient of the IACP Chef/Restaurateur Award of Excellence, National Restaurateur of the Year from Independent Restaurateur Magazine and the Woman of Achievement Award from the Oregon Commission for Women. Chef Schroeder nurtures her community as well as her guests. She participates in numerous charities and causes including Share Our Strength, Basic Rights Oregon, Americans for Gun Sense, Our House, the Raphael House and the Bradley Angle House. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lisa Schroeder of the Pittsburgh Foundation talks to Pittsburgh Technology Council Members about all the ways Pittsburgh's foundation community is stepping up to help people and businesses in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lisa is an Artist and the founder of The Crit Wall, and online community geared towards helping artists advance their craft and do it together. We talk about the Crit Wall and other projects she’s working on as well as some of the difficulties artists are now faced with during this pandemic. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pardonwill/support

Restaurants around Oregon have been closing their doors, laying off staff and, in many cases, scrambling to offer takeout and delivery options since March 16. That’s when Governor Kate Brown issued an executive order banning seated dining in an effort to increase social distancing as a response to the new coronavirus. We hear from Carmen Oakes, manager at the Korner Cafe in Fossil, Mother’s Bistro and Bar executive chef and owner Lisa Schroeder and Jason Brandt, president and CEO of the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association.

Restaurants around Oregon have been closing their doors, laying off staff and, in many cases, scrambling to offer takeout and delivery options since March 16. That’s when Governor Kate Brown issued an executive order banning seated dining in an effort to increase social distancing as a response to the new coronavirus. We hear from Carmen Oakes, manager at the Korner Cafe in Fossil, Mother’s Bistro and Bar executive chef and owner Lisa Schroeder and Jason Brandt, president and CEO of the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association.

Lisa Schroeder has taught for 17 years, cross circularly, and has received various honors, and educational awards for her teaching, leadership, community service and program development. Lisa is the recipient of The Student Leadership Advisor of the year for the state of Arizona in 2015, The National Young Leaders Congressional Youth Leadership Council Selection, and Who's Who Among National Educators. She has been a keynote speaker for educational leadership workshops at district, state and national leadership conference events. She has been a mentor teacher for the past 10 years. Lisa is passionate about investing in building our future through making impactful student and community connections.

After running two hackathons in Singapore, F10 (The Home of FinTech) from Zurich, will also expand its flagship program to Singapore in 2020! We spoke with Lisa Schroeder, Head of Startup program management at F10 FinTech Incubator / Accelerator to find out more.

An interview with Andy Iten, co-founder of F10, also known as the Home of FinTech, leading FinTech incubator and accelerator in Switzerland and Lisa Schroeder, Program Manager at F10. If you are a FinTech start-up with an idea, an investor looking to put money work or a corporate looking for innovative solutions, check out what F10 can do for you.

In celebration of National Women's History Month and International Women's Day (March 8th), Right at the Fork welcomes Lisa Schroeder, owner/chef of Mother's Bistro as our guest host.   In this episode, Lisa interviews Laurie Wolf, an American food writer and entrepreneur, and now a leader in the edible community and an award-winning culinary entrepreneur. In 2014, she founded Laurie + Maryjane with her daughter-in-law, Mary. Since 2015, Laurie has published four cannabis cookbooks.  Right at the Fork is supported by: Zupan's Markets: www.zupans.com RingSide SteakHouse: www.RingsideSteakHouse.com Jenn-Air at Standard TV & Appliance: www.StandardTVandAppliance.com Portland Knife House: www.PortlandKnifeHouse.com Portland Food Adventures: www.PortlandFoodAdventures.com 

The Day Before by Lisa Schroeder What if you had one day? One day to do what you wanted before life as you knew it would change forever? What would you choose to do with it? Amber has one day for herself before things will never be the same. She packs a bag and heads for the beach, where she has always been able to be herself. In this one day, she meets a boy named Cade, who appears to be having a one day of his own. Can they help each other through this last day?Recommended for 8th grade and up. For a more detailed book review click here

Sprinkles and Secrets by Lisa Schroeder

In this week's episode we feature Lisa Schroeder. Lisa is the executive chef and owner of Mother's Bistro. Mother's Bistro features mothers food, traditional home-cooked dishes served by Portland's unofficial Mother, and has been recognized by Food & Wine Magazine, Willamette Week and The Portland Monthly. Mother's Bistro celebrates their 19th anniversary on January 1st.

It's another classic episode of Right at the Fork. Chris feels that Lisa Schroeder should be cited as "Portland's Official Mother."  Lisa visits the RATF studios to talk about the challenges of running a packed Portland culinary institution, especially in light of a the increased responsibilities she's taken on to provide love and care to her grandchildren.  Lisa shares some stories and grief of the loss of her beloved daughter, Stephanie. Photo by Tim Sugden, About Face Magazine. Right at the Fork is supported by: Zupan's Markets: www.zupans.com RingSide Steakhouse: www.RingSideSteakhouse.com  San Pellegrino: www.SanPellegrino.com Connect with Chris and Cort: www.RightAtTheFork.com

Katie Cotugno, author of HOW TO LOVE, FIREWORKS, TOP TEN, and 99 DAYS and its sequel, 9 DAYS AND 9 NIGHTS, talks about the correlation between how she’s feeling and whether she’s writing, her ten-year debut novel, and making sense in the quiet after the loud. Katie Cotugno Show Notes The Baby-Sitters Club Sweet Valley High The Saddle Club Roald Dahl Judy Blume Maurene Goo (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here and here!) Robin Benway (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) Hanson Zan Romanoff (listen to her First Draft interview here) Emerson College Alloy Entertainment Wesleyan University Jodi Picoult Morgan Matson and her book SAVE THE DATE (listen to her First Draft interviews here and here) Katniss from THE HUNGER GAMES THREE SIDES OF A HEART: STORIES ABOUT LOVE TRIANGLES edited by Natalie C. Parker The Office (TV show) Lisa Schroeder

Most of our experience of chocolate comes from smell and taste but also touch, sight and sound. In this episode, we'll explore the sense people think of most when it comes to eating chocolate—and the one they think of the least. This show was previewed on Los Angeles NPR affiliate KCRW. Guests include: Lisa Schroeder, sensory technologist and professional chocolate taster at Mars, on what it means to be the taster for iconic confections such as M&M's, Snickers and Twix. Russell Jones, the co-founder of Condiment Junkie, a creative agency based in London, on the surprising ways our senses influence flavor. Felipe Carvalho, Brazilian sound designer and experimental psychologist, on how sound impacts our experience of the texture of chocolate. Learn more at theslowmelt.com. This show is brought to you by the following sponsors: Warby Parker. Get a free 5-day home try-on at www.warbyparkertrial.com/chocolate. FreshBooks. Get a free one-month trial at www.gofreshbooks.com/chocolate.

Most of our experience of chocolate comes from smell and taste but also touch, sight and sound. In this episode, we'll explore the sense people think of most when it comes to eating chocolate—and the one they think of the least. This show was previewed on Los Angeles NPR affiliate KCRW. Guests include: Lisa Schroeder, sensory technologist and professional chocolate taster at Mars, on what it means to be the taster for iconic confections such as M&M's, Snickers and Twix. Russell Jones, the co-founder of Condiment Junkie, a creative agency based in London, on the surprising ways our senses influence flavor. Felipe Carvalho, Brazilian sound designer and experimental psychologist, on how sound impacts our experience of the texture of chocolate. Launches March 24, 2017. Learn more at theslowmelt.com. This show is brought to you by the following sponsors: Warby Parker. Get a free 5-day home try-on at www.warbyparkertrial.com/chocolate. FreshBooks. Get a free one-month trial at www.gofreshbooks.com/chocolate.

Brain Burps About Books Podcast #237 How Much Do You Edit Out? An Interview with Author Lisa Schroeder Announcements Not sure how to get started with your marketing? Get Your First 1000 Followers is my new LIVE class coming this Fall for those who want that intro to business for writers. Learn how to use an email list, best practices for social media, taking of advantage of video, and how to monetize your website! Click HERE to check it out. Do you enjoy our Brain Burps About Books guests? Do you have questions about their interviews? Come join the Brain Burps About Books Facebook Group and interact with them (the week the episode airs)! Click HERE to join. One week left for the Picture Book Summit Early Bird offer! Price goes up on August 16th. Click HERE to register for the October 3rd online event with Peter Brown, Andrea Davis Pinkney, and Mac Barnett. This week's guest is Lisa Schroeder! This week's guest is Lisa Schroeder. Lisa Schroeder is the author of over a dozen books for kids and teens, including the YA novels I HEART YOU, YOU HAUNT ME and ALL WE HAVE IS NOW and the middle grade novels IT'S RAINING CUPCAKES and MY SECRET GUIDE TO PARIS. She loves tea and cookies, flowers, family hikes, books and movies that make her laugh and cry, and sunshine. Living in Oregon, she doesn't get nearly enough sunshine, but the hikes are amazing. You can visit her online at www.lisaschroederbooks.com or on twitter at @lisa_schroeder. Lisa and I talk about How much to edit when you’re asked? Do authors ever feel like they’re “doing it right?” How much Lisa knew before she started writing. The trick to stop worrying and stop feeling guilty! When you should write in verse and when to skip it. ALL WE HAVE IS NOW. Lisa Schroeder on Instagram (she uses the Word swag app)

In need of inspiration? Want to learn how to live intentionally to make your restaurant dream come true? Then check out Chef Lisa Schroeder and her advice on what it takes to be successful in the restaurant biz. 23 years ago, Schroeder was driven by a vision of creating a restaurant that served food which only a mother would make. Schroeder would devote the next 8 years of her life studying at The Culinary Institute of America, traveling, staging, working and training to develop the skills she would need to be successful. In 2000 her vision became reality when she opened Mothers Bistro and Bar in Portland, Oregon. On top of this, Schroeder is a mother, grandmother, author and is extremely involved with her community. Now sit back, hit play and get inspired.

At this June 2014 event, part of our Conversations at RAND series, a panel of experts discusses ways to strengthen Pittsburgh's water management system, create sustainable solutions to environmental challenges, and better manage long-term uncertainty.

Author Lisa Schroeder joins us to chat about writing and reading verse novels, her new book, The Bridge from Me to You, and, of course, Friday Night Lights.

In this episode of the Find Dining Podcast, Erik Wolf, the Founder of the World Food Travel Association, joins us to talk about the upcoming Foodworx Conferencein Portland, Oregon. We discuss  the state of the food tourism industry, the difference between diners and cooks, and psycho-culinary profiles. Check out the Foodworx Conference on February 4, 2014 The WFTA also hosted the 2013 World Food Travel Summit in Sweden Mmmmm...Vegemite! Chipotle is one of the big business sourcing ingredients locally Foodworx is held at the Gerding Theater at the Armory in Portland's Pearl District Deirdre Campbell from the Tartan Group will introduce the conference Dana Gunders from the Natural Resources Defense Council will speak Tommy Habetz of Bunk's Sandwiches will speak See talks from last year's Foodworx Conference David Howitt of the Meriweather Group will speak Everybody loves Chef Lisa Schroeder of Mother's Bistro & Bar Food for Thought: Q: What percentage of foodies identify themselves as "gourmet"? A: 8.1% Out of the Frying Pan Picks: Neighborhoods Foodies Should Try: The Food Truck Pod Downtown Favorite Food Trucks: Nong's Khao Man Gai and Whiffies Fried Pies Favorite Farmer's Market: Portland's Farmers Market Restaurants with the Best View: The Portland City Grill, the Avalon Bar & Grill, Timberline Lodge Latest Trend: Vegetarian and Vegan Cuisine Favorite Place to Get Coffee: Water Avenue, Portland Roasting Coffee,  Stumptown Coffee Roasters

Lisa Schroeder, the juggernaut behind Mother's Bistro & Bar and Mama Mia Trattoria, both in Portland, discusses her new book, "Mother's Best."