A Visit to Upper Rogue Organics
The Year of Idaho Food Wraps Up
With the New Year, Comes Change
Balancing Ducks, Diversity and Dollars: The future of local...
Every great once and a while, a farmer gets off the farm. About as...
If Janie Burns and Amy Hutchinson hadn’t organized the project called “2011: The Year...
The Year of Idaho Food Wraps Up With 2011 coming to an end, so...
In the pre-dawn December darkness, Mary Rohlfing nodded toward a familiar silhouette perched in...
On Saturday, the last farmers’ market of the 2011 season was held in downtown Boise, wrapping up the largest farmers’ market season ever held in Idaho—measured by the sheer number of markets opened this year around the state. Here’s a glimpse at the final days of the Capital City Public Market.
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“I think we got a rainstorm coming in,” Peggy Paul said, pointing to the ominous band of clouds rolling our way on a blustery, mid-November day. She led me into the shelter of her nearby orchard as icy rain began to tick against the dry leaves and bristled burrs that clung to some 500...
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I never used to save seeds from my gardens. For years, I dutifully pulled the bolted plants, wiping the slate clean for the next season. I’d pour over seed catalogues, snuggled up against my heater with a steaming mug of tea, and make my selections. Plucking varieties trucked from here and there across the...
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I hesitate to invoke the famous Marcel Proust time-travel tale one more time, since uncountable references to that story have ricocheted across food literature like pepper-spraying cops across the Internet. But for those whose reading habits haven’t myopically focused on food and culture, I’ll briefly recap: In the novel Remembrance of Things Past by...
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After decades of food ambivalence, the literary scene has exploded with books about food. Authors have unveiled the politics behind our food. They have penned wide-ranging tutorials from gardening and backyard chickens to root cellar construction and pressing cider. Most importantly, they have inspired and empowered millions of readers to broaden their thinking about...
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For many, it is a dream to live off the land–eat the wild greens that grow in the back yard, fish the local streams for food, hunt if you want to. But this dream is unrealistic, right? There’s no way that a person can get all the food they eat, or even a majority...
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Because of their lack of parking or infrastructure requirements, food carts are perfect for urban areas. It’s strange, then, that some of Boise’s...
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Chef Shige Matsuzawa has dominated the downtown Boise sushi scene for years. And despite a questionable expansion into French-infused red carpet fine dining...
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In the last decade, Hawaiian restaurants have become as numerous in the valley as Speedo-clad Japanese tourists at Waikiki Beach. I’ve been firmly...
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Barbecue is best served roadside–a hot mess of meat marinated in exhaust and sizzling hot from the sun-baked asphalt below. It’s as much...
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When you crave a dash of gastropub class with your dinner, Overland Road in Meridian isn’t often your first stop. But the R&R...
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