Here is KBOO community radio’s monthly Food Show. This installment focuses on dairy. This month is devoted to dairy. Listen to dairy breakfast suggestions from Paul Gerald, author of Breakfast in Bridgetownhttp://www.breakfastinbridgetown.com and hear an interview by Host Miriam Widman with Reyna Simnegar, author of Persian Food for the Non-Persian Bride about kosher dairy Persian...
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It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and I’m standing at the Boise Co-op cheese counter with four people whose jobs I covet. They’re sipping beer and sampling cheese, searching for the perfect marriage of flavors for the Front Door Pizza and Tap House’s ever popular First Thursday pairings of beer, cheese and chocolate. An enthusiastic Cera...
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MONTESANO, Wash. – Northwest artisan cheese makers say the F.D.A. just doesn’t get their craft. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been getting tough on food companies after years of incidents like last August’s nation-wide egg recall. President Obama signed a new food safety law this month expanding the F.D.A.’s authority. But two...
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“This was formerly the Smith’s Dairy,” says Bill Stoltzfus of the building he bought in 2007, just a block south of Buhl’s town square. “The place had been in the Smith family for 70-some years.” This modest cream-colored bottling plant and the soft-spoken man who now runs it hardly look like players in a...
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America is in the midst of a cheese making renaissance. Small-scale, artisans have set up shop in virtually every state. The Northwest is particularly well represented. Oregon has over 20 professional cheese making businesses — Washington twice that. Idaho has less than six so far. But, as correspondent Guy Hand finds...
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Raw milk is a controversial food. Proponents say it is healthier and more flavorful than processed, pasteurized milk. Yet many states outlaw its sale, saying raw milk is unsafe. Idaho, however, recently changed it’s laws to allow the selling of raw milk. In this installment of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent...
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(GH: Northwest News Network correspondent Anna King reports for Northwest Public Radio.) DAYTON, WA – Farm life can look serene from afar. Shows like the old stand-by All Creatures Great and Small portray a slower pace … nothing like the hectic city grind full of traffic, nagging email and never-ending Tweets. But this time of year,...
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