“On the surface of it, the practice of eating peppers appears preposterous,” says author Amal Naj in his aptly named book “Peppers.” He goes on to detail how the Incas used dried chilies as weapons against the invading Spanish, how the British rubbed peppers into the eyes of mutinous slaves, and how Iraqi soldiers...
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Who would think that Idaho and Iran have anything in common? Dr. Esmaeil Fallahi does. This Iranian immigrant and Idaho fruit researcher says you only have to visit his fruit orchard in Parma to see that southern Idaho and his Middle Eastern homeland have important similarities. In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy...
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Back in 1942, the famous and often funny food writer M.F.K. Fisher wrote a book called How to Cook a Wolf. She meant it metaphorically, the wolf as a symbol for the World War that was raging and the food shortages created by that conflict. How to Cook a Wolf was a book about making...
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This was initially to be the new site for the NPR show Edible Idaho, a radio show on food and agriculture in, well, Idaho. But these days the subject of food and agriculture can hardly be contained within the borders of a single state. Neither can our enthusiasm for the subject. So, we’ve taken...
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