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		<title>Chestnuts Return to America</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/16/chestnuts-return-to-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I think we got a rainstorm coming in,&#8221; Peggy Paul said, pointing to the ominous band of clouds rolling our way on a blustery, mid-November day. She led me into the shelter of her nearby orchard as icy rain began to tick against the dry leaves and bristled burrs that clung to some 500 chestnut trees. As my eyes adjusted to the light under that nearly closed canopy, I whispered the word &#8220;beautiful.&#8221; Those trees both protected us from the rain and reminded me&#8211;with hundreds of trunks giving way to a tangle of interlocking branches&#8211;of an enchanted forest far more than a commercial orchard. Enchanted or not, a chestnut forest is a rare sight. That&#8217;s because, as a recent New York Times article put it, the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) &#8220;had a worse 20th century than the British Empire, the ice-delivery trade or rhyming poetry.&#8221; Once a stately member of the Eastern hardwood forest ecosystem, up to 4 billion American chestnut trees fell victim to a blight during the 1930s and 1940s, virtually scouring the species from its native habitat. That&#8217;s why the majority of Americans today experience the chestnut via imported and frequently inferior Chinese chestnuts, or vicariously through that 1946 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seedy Confessions: Birthing a seed freak</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey O'Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never used to save seeds from my gardens. For years, I dutifully pulled the bolted plants, wiping the slate clean for the next season. I’d pour over seed catalogues, snuggled up against my heater with a steaming mug of tea, and make my selections. Plucking varieties trucked from here and there across the country, a smorgasbord would arrive in a box seemingly far too tiny to hold the hundreds housed within. Then, in 2005, I visited a farm in Sooke, BC, that changed my life. Mary Alice Johnson runs ALM farm, a tiny farm much like mine, but with one major difference—instead of working against each plant’s biological predisposition to survive by setting seed, she embraced it, allowing it to flower, to have sex, to make babies in the form of seeds. Looking around her exuberant, wild farm, full of flowers and buzzing pollinators, I clearly grasped the faux pas I had been committing. I was killing my beloved vegetables before they got a chance to reproduce and die on their own. That’s an fitting fate for a weed, not a prized garden treasure. Further, I was spending hundreds of dollars each year to let some other farm like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quince: A Path to the Past</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/09/quince-time-travel-and-membrillo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hesitate to invoke the famous Marcel Proust time-travel tale one more time, since uncountable references to that story have ricocheted across food literature like pepper-spraying cops across the Internet. But for those whose reading habits haven&#8217;t myopically focused on food and culture, I&#8217;ll briefly recap: In the novel Remembrance of Things Past by French writer Proust, the narrator had an absentminded taste of &#8220;one of those squat, plump little cakes called &#8216;petites madeleines,&#8217; which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted valve of a scallop shell,&#8221; which teleported him back to his long-forgotten childhood. Proust explores this food-induced teleportation for nearly 1.5 million words, examining what he called the &#8220;involuntary memories&#8221; invoked by something as seemingly innocuous as a scalloped cookie. Boisean Dave Turner knows all about taste and memory, if not Marcel Proust and his madeleines. The catalyst that shot Turner into his past was quince, a fragrant apple-like fruit. &#8220;Somewhere when I was between 6 and 10, my grandmother used to make this quince jelly,&#8221; the 60-year-old Turner said as he opened a gate and walked me into his suburban back yard. &#8220;I never knew what a quince was, all I knew was it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Year of Idaho Food Year End Reading List</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/06/a-year-of-idaho-food-year-end-reading-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janie Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After decades of food ambivalence, the literary scene has exploded with  books about food.  Authors have unveiled the politics behind our food.  They have penned wide-ranging tutorials from gardening and backyard chickens to root cellar construction and pressing cider.  Most importantly, they have inspired and empowered millions of readers to broaden their thinking about food and how it is raised, processed, transported, and eaten. Just in time for the Christmas gift calculus comes a thoughtful guide,  2011 Year of Idaho Food An Annotated Reading List. The Idaho Center for the Book asked Idahoans for the books that “informed or inspired their relationship to food.&#8221;  Readers from all over the state enthusiastically listed dozens of books and shared their significance. The director of the center, BSU art professor Stephanie Bacon, was inspired by the Symposium on Food Security and the Year of Idaho Food.  The new Arts and Humanities Institute at Boise State sponsored a “Symposium on Food Security” in September, subtitled “Sustainable Communities: The Intersection of Food and Art.”  The keynote speaker was author Gary Paul Nabhan. Other presenters included Kathy Gardner, Director of the Idaho Hunger Relief; Bittercreek/Red Feather restauranteur Dave Krick, artist and architect Anne Trumble, and Idaho food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting-and-Gathering Guru: A conversation with Hank Shaw</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/05/hunting-and-gathering-guru-a-conversation-with-hand-shaw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy King</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many, it is a dream to live off the land&#8211;eat the wild greens that grow in the back yard, fish the local streams for food, hunt if you want to. But this dream is unrealistic, right? There&#8217;s no way that a person can get all the food they eat, or even a majority of it, off the land. Well, it&#8217;s possible if you&#8217;re Hank Shaw. Shaw is at the top of an ever-growing list of those who make a career living off the land. Call it hyper-localism if you want, but Shaw is the real deal&#8211;he hunts, fishes and gathers the majority of his calories. Hank has chronicled this culinary journey is his new book, Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast. Honestly I would expect a book like this to be written by a guy in a cabin in Montana, not a gent living in California. How do you square city-living with your desire to be outside hunting and gathering? I live outside Sacramento, [Calif.,] which has some of the best waterfowl hunting in North America. Most people don&#8217;t know that, nor do they know that northern California has a very strong hunting culture, at least once you leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Raw Milk Deal: Idaho legitimizes small-scale raw-milk producers</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/12/02/the-raw-milk-deal-idaho-legitimizes-small-scale-raw-milk-producers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Aug. 3, federal and county law enforcement agents raided a Venice, Calif., raw-food club, searching for raw milk. The YouTube video of the raid showed officers, with guns drawn, working their way through the facility in what critics called &#8220;government-sponsored terrorism&#8221; and &#8220;an attack on food freedom.&#8221; Every few months, it seems, TV news or amateur videographers capture another raid on a raw-milk supplier somewhere in America. In the past several years, law enforcement agencies have carried out raw-milk raids in Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. Each raid increases the tension that already surrounds the debate over raw milk. Idaho, by contrast, has taken a very different raw-milk route. &#8220;Raw milk comes straight from the cow or goat. We don&#8217;t do anything to it except filter it and flash cool it and bottle it,&#8221; said Debra Jantzi, owner of Treasured Sunrise Acres, a Grade A raw-milk dairy in Fruitland. Pasteurization, on the other hand, is a heating process that kills bacteria and other pathogens and has been a standard practice in the U.S. dairy industry since the mid-20th century. Many state and federal health agencies claim that raw milk is dangerous to drink&#8211;citing a 2010 outbreak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Genetic Diversity in Abandoned Apple Orchards</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/10/28/seeking-genetic-diversity-in-abandoned-apple-orchards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we roared downstream through the River of No Return Wilderness via jet boat, skipping off rapids and dodging just-submerged boulders, I decided my imaginary movie version of this adventure should be titled Indiana Appleseed in the Canyon of Lost Treasure. Naturally it would be packed with whitewater action, pioneer spirit, hungry black bears and most importantly, a whole lot of strange apples. First, the backstory. Sadie Barrett&#8211;who took me on this Salmon River jet boat expedition&#8211;and project partner Candace Burns decided they needed to save the neglected, sometimes century-old apple trees they saw slowly dying all over Idaho&#8217;s Lemhi County. As a kid growing up in Salmon, the 35-year-old Barrett used to munch on apples from trees planted by Idaho&#8217;s early pioneers. But upon returning to her hometown after a 10-year absence, she was stunned by the number of trees that had disappeared. &#8220;They&#8217;d either been built over or just had perished because they hadn&#8217;t been irrigated,&#8221; Barrett said. Barrett and Burns decided this threatened edible heritage shouldn&#8217;t be left to quietly sink into oblivion, so the two women made plans to catalog, take cuttings and graft as many worthy fruit trees as they could find. As we skittered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Awe of the Pawpaw</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/10/14/in-awe-of-the-pawpaw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan Huskey, a big man with a kind smile and soft voice, greeted me in his Meridian yard, garden hose in hand. Behind him stood an unruly forest of fruit trees. &#8220;I&#8217;m just a common home gardener that happened to run into a friend that knew about pawpaws,&#8221; Huskey said by way of introduction. I hadn&#8217;t heard of that mysterious fruit until I spotted Huskey&#8217;s produce on display at Boise Co-op one fall. This friend of Huskey&#8217;s had grown pawpaws back in Alabama, and knowing that Huskey loved growing odd fruit, thought he should try the stubby-banana-shaped pawpaw in Idaho. In response to his friend&#8217;s suggestion, Huskey asked what nearly everyone west of the Mississippi asks: &#8220;What&#8217;s a pawpaw?&#8221; Considering the fact that the pawpaw is the largest edible fruit native to America, its lack of fame is a little surprising. An understory tree common to the eastern United States, the pawpaw was cultivated by native tribes, loved by George Washington, frequently depended on by Lewis and Clark, and the subject of a children&#8217;s nursery rhyme (way down yonder in the pawpaw patch). It has a sweet, creamy interior with a flavor reminiscent of mango and banana&#8211;a sunny, equatorial taste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmer Mentor Spotlight: Beth Rasgorshek, Canyon Bounty Farm</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/10/10/farmer-mentor-spotlight-beth-rasgorshek-canyon-bounty-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey O'Leary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve ever driven down Orchard Avenue in Caldwell, you’ve seen the two Treasure Valleys side by side. The tired, old patchwork—square swaths of farmland in tidy, monocultured rows—hemming in the pseudo-slick subdivisions cordoned off with vinyl fences. Orchard Avenue is a visual testament to the struggles of family farmers who one by one are turning their life’s labor of love, their precious farmland, over to the cookie-cutter concrete of sprawling suburbia. It’s a sight to break your heart, if you’re looking, and if you are, you’ve noticed a little place that stands out from both of them. A well-kept barn, a couple small greenhouses, chicken coop, modest farmhouse surrounded by a colorful kitchen garden, beehives, and seven acres of diverse and tidy vegetable seed crops. Welcome to Beth Rasgorshek’s Canyon Bounty Farm, a beacon of hope on a downtrodden road. This land is dear to Beth. She played here as a girl growing up on the neighboring farm, where her dad, Joe, also raised seed crops. After a detour to Portland and a long stint co-running Urban Bounty Farm, a CSA there, Beth returned home to her neighborhood and began the challenge of farming organically in Canyon County. Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho&#8217;s Newest (Old) Wine Region</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/10/07/idahos-newest-old-wine-region/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. &#8220;We were looking for grapes, trying to identify them by the cluster,&#8221; he said of century-old vines rumored to have been, at least briefly, owned by the Rothschilds of Bordeaux. After a subtle, but suspenseful pause, he added: &#8220;We did find five or six different cultivars on the site.&#8221; Pearson took cuttings from those vines, packed them up and, in proper CSI fashion, sent them off to the University of California at Davis for DNA analysis. The results were intriguing&#8211;and backed up the stories he&#8217;d heard about the Lewiston area&#8217;s wine-infused past. The cuttings&#8211;classic French varieties like petit syrah, petite verdot and cabernet franc&#8211;gave credence to a local historian&#8217;s claim that the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley between Lewiston and Clarkston, Wash., was once the Northwest&#8217;s first internationally recognized winemaking region. Evidence shows that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when Walla Walla, Wash., the Willamette Valley and the Sunnyslope area of southwestern Idaho were toddling through their winemaking infancies, this steep-walled confluence of the Clearwater and Snake rivers [...]]]></description>
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