Because of their lack of parking or infrastructure requirements, food carts are perfect for urban areas. It’s strange, then, that some of Boise’s best are located not in its urban core but roadside in dilapidated fly-over neighborhoods. But for Brown Shuga Soul Food, a longtime favorite at festivals, the truck’s permanent home between a car...
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We were privileged that the Boise Weekly and Boise State Radio included a story on our North Idaho schoolyard gardens in their collaboration on the launch of “2011: The Year of Idaho Food” series. In that story, we reported that a few individuals successfully started a schoolyard garden at a small, rural elementary school...
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There are still two months left in 2011: the Year of Idaho Food, and what better way to honor the occasion than with a Thanksgiving table laid with the best of what’s produced right in our own state? You’ll be getting the freshest of what’s available, and you’ll be supporting our local growers, processors, producers...
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In his book, A Garlic Testament, Stanley Crawford writes, “If you grow good garlic, people will love you for it.” That’s surely true, but here in Southern Idaho, the space between the garlic growing and the love is littered with complexity. Let’s say you’re a home gardener: It’s late fall–perfect garlic-planting season–but you haven’t...
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CLAY SCOTT: You’re listening to Mountain West Voices. I’m Clay Scott. Margaret Corcoran got one degree in Latin, then got another in philosophy, classics and religious studies…but her entire professional life has had to do with food. KITCHEN SOUNDS, PEOPLE TALKING SCOTT: That’s the sound of the lunch rush at Margaret’s restaurant, Benny’s Bistro,...
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Chef Shige Matsuzawa has dominated the downtown Boise sushi scene for years. And despite a questionable expansion into French-infused red carpet fine dining at the Shige compound on Eighth and Idaho streets, the Shige brand has remained unwaveringly strong. But when I heard Shige had opened a teriyaki venture in Meridian–a short distance from...
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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...
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