JORDAN VALLEY, Ore. – The term “cattle rustling” might conjure scenes from an old spaghetti western. But in the vast desert range of Oregon, Idaho and Nevada, cattle rustling is a modern-day problem. In the past three years nearly 27-hundred cattle have gone missing in Oregon. Wanted posters are being tacked up in small-town...
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Religions frequently struggle to find a balance between the spiritual and material world. To some people Heaven and Earth often seem at odds. Today, though, many faith-based organizations are finding that balance . . . in the garden.
In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand looks at churches that believe good...
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As I mentioned in a previous post, every Friday morning starting tomorrow during Morning Edition on Boise State Radio (KBSX 91.5), I’ll bring you the news on what’s fresh and interesting at the area’s farmers’ markets. I’ll also gather timely tips on how to plant your own garden and grow you’re own food.
Here’s the...
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(GH: Here’s a final excerpt from “Making West Home,” a cookbook on the lives and foodways of refugees in southern Idaho. The book will debut this Saturday at the Idaho State Historical Society. Sarah Barsness wrote the text, I took the photos.)
Victor Castaño and Niye Acosta welcome you into their comfortable home with the...
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(GH: Here’s another excerpt from “Making West Home,” a cookbook on the lives and foodways of refugees in southern Idaho. The book will debut this Saturday at the Idaho State Historical Society. Sarah Barsness wrote the text, I took the photos.)
Entering the home of Josephine Nizigiyimana and her family feels like stepping into another...
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(GH: As promised, here is a first excerpt from “Making West Home,” a cookbook on the lives and foodways of refugees in southern Idaho. The book will debut this Saturday at the Idaho State Historical Society. Sarah Barsness wrote the text, I took the photos.)
Eh Soe Min remembers a time when making rice...
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Over the past several months, the Western Folklife Center has enlisted yours truly and ethnographer Sarah Barsness to document the stories and food ways of Somali Bantu, Congolese, Bhutanese, Burundian, Meskhetian Turk, Colombian, Ethiopian, Burmese and Bosnian families all living in the Treasure Valley.
The result, a newly published cookbook, Making West Home in Idaho:...
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(GH: A radio story from independent radio producer Catherine Spangler in Seattle on Jeffrey McIntosh, a nineteen-year-old tea fanatic who has spent three years learning the customs, history, preparation, and science behind High Mountain Oolong tea.)
Jeffrey McIntosh: In the beginning, it was kind of just a hobby to help me relax during school. Then...
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I’ve been working for several months on a documentary book project for the Western Folklife Center called Making West Home.
The goal of the project has been to interview and photograph refugee families in their gardens and kitchens, learning the significance of food and cooking in their lives, how they’ve preserved cooking traditions in this...
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Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore’s Dilemma, a critique of modern food systems that was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, will speak January 13th at Washington State University in Pullman as part of its annual common reading program.
What’s noteworthy about...
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