When Idaho chef, outdoorsman and BW writer Randy King asked if I wanted to tag along on a river-bound food adventure that included clams, crawdads, carp and cattails, I couldn’t wait. As the citizen of a state bereft of sea breezes and surf, I wasn’t about to pass on a chance to feed my occasional...
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On the hipster-satirizing sketch comedy show Portlandia, a couple sits down in a restaurant, scans the menu then asks about the chicken. The server rattles off that it’s a heritage breed, woodland-raised chicken that has been fed a diet of sheep’s milk, soy and hazelnuts. When the couple asks even more about the fowl’s...
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SPOKANE, Wash. — Decades of state and federal efforts to recover endangered salmon in the Northwest are well-publicized. What’s less well-known is a project in its infancy—white sturgeon recovery. Scientists only seriously started studying sturgeon in the 1980’s, and concrete information about these fish—and how to care for them in a changing river system—is...
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Hand: The Year of Idaho Food is nearing it’s halfway mark. A year long collaboration of volunteers, the Year of Idaho Food is designed to collect and catalogue stories, recipes, photographs and videos from any Idahoan willing to share. The project is gathering material from gardeners, farmers, restaurant owners, virtually anyone with a connection...
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Fish researchers affectionately call sturgeons “dinosaur fish.” They’ve swum earth’s rivers for a quarter of a billion years, making them a living relic. But scientists actually know very little about the Columbia River’s white sturgeon population. Yesterday , researchers with the Yakama Nation, the Chelan and Grant County Public Utilities Districts, and a number...
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Travelers whizzing past Southern Idaho’s sagebrush desert on I-84 are likely thinking about anything but caviar. Rattlesnakes, lava rocks and the next restroom, sure. But not glistening black beads of high-end sturgeon roe. And yet, just to the south of the highway, often hidden below the rim of the Snake River Canyon, flows its...
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Last year, the Idaho legislature passed a resolution in support of Idaho Grown Food. In response, the Treasure Valley Food Coalition dreamed up a grass-roots, year-long project called “2011: The Year of Idaho Food”—which I’ve written about recently in the Boise Weekly —and started working on ways to encourage individuals and organizations to put together their own...
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