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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After a long, lingering winter, Spring has finally sprung here in southern Idaho. To celebrate, NPR’s Edible Idaho is trying something new: A weekly radio show called The Market & Garden Report. Every Friday morning beginning April 30th during Morning Edition on Boise State Radio (KBSX 91.5), producer Guy Hand will bring you the...
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Farm to Fork dinners are served on the very farms where the evening’s food is grown. They’re a national phenomenon. But ultra-fresh fare isn’t all these events offer. In this episode of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand goes to dinner at Boise’s Peaceful Belly Farms and finds there’s more on the menu than a...
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The traditional restaurant review reviews, well, restaurants. Yet to confine the search for good food to four walls is to miss one of the most exciting trends in food today: the profusion of outdoor, farm-to-table dinners that have sprouted up across the country like morels after wildfire. An offshoot of the local food...
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Idaho chef Kirt Martin is committed to cooking with local ingredients. But what does a cook do in December, long after the garden is gone?
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Shortening the distance from farmer to plate is what the local food movement is all about. Chef Andrae Bopp cuts that distance to a mere half a block.
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