Edible Idaho is a Public Radio show on food and agriculture that airs throughout the Northwest.
The mood was sunny on a spring afternoon as a small crowd collected for a student presentation on the lawn of the College of Idaho campus in Caldwell. It was warm, there was a barbecue afterward and graduation was only days away. Yet one of the photographs the eight student presenters had set on easels...
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Jake Willis, manager of Peaceful Cove Ranch, walked through the Foothills just north of Boise. The sky was blue, the pasture green, and on a sagebrush-dotted ridge above, a herd of cattle could be seen grazing. It was a quintessential Idaho ranch scene, except for those cattle. We climbed into Willis’ pickup for a...
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Say you’re sitting on the sunny patio of a local restaurant during the height of tomato season. So, of course, you order a tomato salad. But what arrives is not so much a plate of tomatoes as ghostly impostors, soulless industrial tomatoes with less flavor than a napkin. You look across the street–a literal...
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Edible Idaho won three first place awards from the Idaho Press Club on Saturday Night. Here are the episodes that won: • First place for Radio Light Feature Report: “The Backyard Chicken Invasion“ • First place for Radio Serious Feature Report: “Food & Faith“ • First place for Radio Watchdog/Investigative Report: “The Edible Underground“...
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Tim Sommer loves to preach the gospel of spring greens. And he’s got the voice to do it. When describing mizuna, for instance, he starts near a whisper as he kneels to pick a leaf. Then, as he rises again, his tone rises too. He extolls the virtues of that serrated leaf, its health...
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Bill Fraser pops the cork on a bottle of 2009 Petite Sirah, a new varietal for his boutique Boise winery tucked into a quiet commercial neighborhood off Capital Boulevard. In a room whose concrete floor, sheetrock walls and fluorescent lighting betray its past as home to his former construction company, Fraser pours ruby liquid...
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On April 16, “guest ringer” J.V. Evans, executive vice president of D.L. Evans Bank, grabbed the wooden handle of a brand-new brass bell, lifted it over his head and ceremoniously rang in a new season at Boise’s Capital City Public Market. Along with the opening of the Eagle Saturday Market the same day, it...
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