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...
CLAY SCOTT: You’re listening to Mountain West Voices. I’m Clay Scott. Margaret Corcoran got one degree in Latin, then got another in philosophy, classics and religious studies…but her entire professional life has had to do with food. KITCHEN SOUNDS, PEOPLE TALKING SCOTT: That’s the sound of the lunch rush at Margaret’s restaurant, Benny’s Bistro,...
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I simply wasn’t prepared for what I saw when Fred Colby, co-owner of Laughing Dog Brewery in Ponderay, pulled open the heavy door to his walk-in cooler. Instead of setting eyes on cases of craft beer, I caught the cold gaze of six very pink pig carcasses. “Pig beer!” I blurted out reflexively, in order to...
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As we roared downstream through the River of No Return Wilderness via jet boat, skipping off rapids and dodging just-submerged boulders, I decided my imaginary movie version of this adventure should be titled Indiana Appleseed in the Canyon of Lost Treasure. Naturally it would be packed with whitewater action, pioneer spirit, hungry black bears...
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It’s harvest time on the Palouse, and North Idaho wheat farmer Wayne Jensen has invited me into the air-conditioned cab of his massive combine. A color-coded computer screen shows us exactly how many bushels of grain he’s harvesting moment-to-moment, while an automatic leveling system keeps the cab true to the horizon even as the...
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Jan Huskey, a big man with a kind smile and soft voice, greeted me in his Meridian yard, garden hose in hand. Behind him stood an unruly forest of fruit trees. “I’m just a common home gardener that happened to run into a friend that knew about pawpaws,” Huskey said by way of introduction....
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If you’ve ever driven down Orchard Avenue in Caldwell, you’ve seen the two Treasure Valleys side by side. The tired, old patchwork—square swaths of farmland in tidy, monocultured rows—hemming in the pseudo-slick subdivisions cordoned off with vinyl fences. Orchard Avenue is a visual testament to the struggles of family farmers who one by one...
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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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