As I mentioned in a previous post, every Friday morning starting tomorrow during Morning Edition on Boise State Radio (KBSX 91.5), I’ll bring you the news on what’s fresh and interesting at the area’s farmers’ markets. I’ll also gather timely tips on how to plant your own garden and grow you’re own food. Here’s...
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(GH: Here’s a final excerpt from “Making West Home,” a cookbook on the lives and foodways of refugees in southern Idaho. The book will debut this Saturday at the Idaho State Historical Society. Sarah Barsness wrote the text, I took the photos.) Victor Castaño and Niye Acosta welcome you into their comfortable home with...
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(GH: Here’s another excerpt from “Making West Home,” a cookbook on the lives and foodways of refugees in southern Idaho. The book will debut this Saturday at the Idaho State Historical Society. Sarah Barsness wrote the text, I took the photos.) Entering the home of Josephine Nizigiyimana and her family feels like stepping into...
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(GH: As promised, here is a first excerpt from “Making West Home,” a cookbook on the lives and foodways of refugees in southern Idaho. The book will debut this Saturday at the Idaho State Historical Society. Sarah Barsness wrote the text, I took the photos.) Eh Soe Min remembers a time when making rice...
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Over the past several months, the Western Folklife Center has enlisted yours truly and ethnographer Sarah Barsness to document the stories and food ways of Somali Bantu, Congolese, Bhutanese, Burundian, Meskhetian Turk, Colombian, Ethiopian, Burmese and Bosnian families all living in the Treasure Valley. The result, a newly published cookbook, Making West Home in...
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At 2 o’clock in the morning, there’s a compelling, if slightly twisted logic to fried chicken and waffles. Especially after a night at Liquid or one of the other spots within teetering distance of Solid, a new, BoDo-based restaurant. At that hour, food becomes less a meal than an antidote. Dishes that might simply...
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After a long, lingering winter, Spring has finally sprung here in southern Idaho. To celebrate, NPR’s Edible Idaho is trying something new: A weekly radio show called The Market & Garden Report. Every Friday morning beginning April 30th during Morning Edition on Boise State Radio (KBSX 91.5), producer Guy Hand will bring you the...
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