(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. ...
Read More »
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...
Read More »
Yesterday, Capital Press reported contributions from several groups will allow specialty crop research to continue at the University of Idaho Parma Research and Extension Center. Last September Edible Idaho aired a story on Dr. Esmaeil Fallahi, a fruit researcher for the Parma Center who has done innovative work to bring new fruit crops to the Northwest...
Read More »
More and more people are getting directly involved in food. Growing it, cooking it, even blogging about it. Some are going still further: plunging — literally — into the meat of the matter. In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand visits a class where every student wields a knife — and the...
Read More »
Back in December, I mentioned the upcoming Oregon Truffle Festival in Eugene, which runs from January 29th to 31st. Among many dinners, workshops and tastings, the festival also offers a two-day seminar on truffle dog training. Yesterday, the Oregonian published an article on the subject of truffle hunting dogs. Although pigs are the traditional truffle...
Read More »
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...
Read More »
Forests filled with chestnuts once covered some 200 million acres of America. Thoreau called them the “boundless chestnut woods” and they stretched from Maine to Florida. As Oregon freelance writer Laura McCandlish says in an article published yesterday on the NPR website: “Durable “cradle to coffin” chestnut timber built our communities, and our cuisine (particularly...
Read More »
