After nearly three years away, Mitchell and Andrea Maricich are back on the Boise restaurant scene. Their just opened (as of Monday January 17th) Salt Tears Coffeehouse & Noshery is anything but a reincarnation of their much loved, if long-closed MilkyWay restaurant. Where MilkyWay, especially in it’s first location, was small, intimate, and full...
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Global Gardens is having their annual Harvest Dinner this Saturday night, so I thought it appropriate to post a previous Northwest Food News introduction to Global Gardens and the important work they’re doing to integrate refugees into the community through gardening. (At the end of the post is information on the dinner itself.) Global...
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Raw milk is a controversial food. Proponents say it is healthier and more flavorful than processed, pasteurized milk. Yet many states outlaw its sale, saying raw milk is unsafe. Idaho, however, recently changed it’s laws to allow the selling of raw milk. In this installment of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent...
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Among borshch aficionados, the origins and essential ingredients of this Central and Eastern European beet soup are as varied and hotly contested as chili at a chili contest. There’s Russian borshch, Polish borshch, Jewish borscht, hot borshch, cold borshch, thick borshch, thin borshch, meaty borshch, meatless borshch and borshch without beets. There’s also little...
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One of gardening’s most fundamental chores — watering — is also one of its most vexing. Even seasoned gardeners struggle with the question of when and how much to water. In this episode of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand talks to Clay and Josie Erskine of Peaceful Belly Farms...
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I suspect that more pin stripes and jewels drift through Chandlers Steakhouse on an average evening than any other restaurant in the Valley. Beyond the bar’s backlit glassware, the bird-of-paradise spiked bouquets, the white linen and honey-colored light, there’s a bank of private rooms where more than a few deals are surely made over...
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This Thursday, Outdoor Idaho will air a show on Idaho’s vibrant local food scene. It’s a story that Idaho Public Television producer Thanh Tan has been working on since last summer — a subject dear to her heart. Here’s what Tan says about the show: “I always tell people one of the pleasures of working at...
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