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 Aug. 3, federal and county law enforcement agents raided a Venice, Calif., raw-food club, searching for raw milk. The YouTube video of the raid showed officers, with guns drawn, working their way through the facility in what critics called “government-sponsored terrorism” and “an attack on food freedom.” Every few months, it seems, TV news...
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We were privileged that the Boise Weekly and Boise State Radio included a story on our North Idaho schoolyard gardens in their collaboration on the launch of “2011: The Year of Idaho Food” series. In that story, we reported that a few individuals successfully started a schoolyard garden at a small, rural elementary school...
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Vicki Reich used to always pack light for flights to the East Coast to visit family. The food columnist for the weekly newspaper, The Sandpoint Reader, and merchandiser for a natural foods market, she wanted to leave plenty of room in her carry-on luggage to stash a couple dozen freshly baked, New York-style bagels...
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Say the word “goat” and most Americans picture a horned cartoon with a taste for tin cans. It started back in 1928, when a distasteful little goat ate Minnie Mouse’s ukulele in Steamboat Willie, the first animated cartoon to guarantee the goat its place in cartoon infamy. In 1943, a swastika-wearing Nazi goat did...
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There are still two months left in 2011: the Year of Idaho Food, and what better way to honor the occasion than with a Thanksgiving table laid with the best of what’s produced right in our own state? You’ll be getting the freshest of what’s available, and you’ll be supporting our local growers, processors, producers...
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In his book, A Garlic Testament, Stanley Crawford writes, “If you grow good garlic, people will love you for it.” That’s surely true, but here in Southern Idaho, the space between the garlic growing and the love is littered with complexity. Let’s say you’re a home gardener: It’s late fall–perfect garlic-planting season–but you haven’t...
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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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