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The morning sun had barely cleared the cottonwood trees along the Boise River when the nine of us began to sip gin. The group called itself a “ginsmithing panel”–which certainly sounds more respectable than a breakfast cocktail party–and Scott Probert, the head distiller at Bardenay in Eagle, assured me we were gathered in the distillery...
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Here are belated photos of the National Lentil Festival in Pullman, Washington held last weekend. Many gallons of free lentil chili, lentil artwork, t-shirts, cook-offs and a lentil parade. An in-depth, hard-hitting story on lentils to come . . .
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On my whirlwind food tour of North, Idaho, I got to spend a little time this morning at the Moscow farmers’ market. It was warm, sunny and bustling. See for yourself:
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Old folk song: “Crawdad Song” : You get a line and I’ll get a pole, honey . . . Hand: When I was a kid growing up in Twin Falls, we loved to catch crawdads in the canal by our house. Song: You get a line and I’ll get a pole, we’ll go down...
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All across the country, farm dinners are being held as summer produce hits its peak. At Peaceful Belly Farm, just outside of Boise, the menu has included charred beets with sheep’s yogurt, lamb kefta with fava bean puree, chilled pea soup with mint pistou and pork shoulder with currants. Here’s a gallery of recent...
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Kevin Dinius cocked his head to one side, as if trying to slide all the brewery names into a neat row before he spoke. “We’ve got Wallace Brewing from Wallace, Idaho,” he began to a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band accompaniment in the distances. “We’ve got Payette Brewing from Boise, we’ve got Sun Valley, Van...
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When Idaho chef, outdoorsman and BW writer Randy King asked if I wanted to tag along on a river-bound food adventure that included clams, crawdads, carp and cattails, I couldn’t wait. As the citizen of a state bereft of sea breezes and surf, I wasn’t about to pass on a chance to feed my occasional...
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