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...
Mike Pearson had heard the stories but wanted to find out for himself. Last fall he did a little detective work, poking through an abandoned vineyard some 30 miles east of Lewiston. “We were looking for grapes, trying to identify them by the cluster,” he said of century-old vines rumored to have been, at...
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I was asked by the Boise Weekly to shoot photos of this year’s annual “A Chef’s Affaire” held last Saturday night in the Grove in downtown Boise. Here are a few shots taken not only from the cavernous dining area where attendees perused auction items while local winemakers poured Idaho wines, but also from...
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It happens all the time: a woman sits down at a restaurant with a man and the person waiting on the table – male or female – assumes that the man will order the wine. Call it a cultural default in a world where we traditionally ask men to be connoisseurs and gatekeepers of...
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On Wednesday, September 21st, the Boise School District held what they called “Harvest Day.” The event was held in cafeterias district-wide with local foods dominating the menus. Locally produced foods included trout patties, baked potatoes and local tortillas, as well as fresh zucchini, cucumbers, cabbage, onions, watermelon and nectarines. Over 21,000 students had local...
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Down the street is rooted a relic adventure Sown with a relic hope of prosperity When planting a fruit tree was thought to be a gift for children's children... annual abundance, precious sweetness amid unknown hardship oh grandpa, how you tried... In a few weeks, it will begin to bloom, White blossoms garishly splashed...
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On any given summer morning, you can wander through rows and rows of vegetables at the Boise Urban Garden School (BUGS) and spot a group of fourth to twelfth graders sitting, crouching or sprawling as they scribble and sketch entries in their custom-decorated garden journals. These days we expect most kids to be committed...
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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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