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	<title>Northwest Food News &#187; Guy Hand</title>
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		<title>The Year of Idaho Food isn’t the end of Idaho Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janie Burns</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a year ago, Amy Hutchinson and I helped create a campaign called 2011: The Year of Idaho.  This grassroots effort received a broad reach across Idaho, and even throughout the Pacific Northwest through the work of many individuals and particularly through the media work of Guy Hand.  His Northwest Food News has chronicled the past year with colorful, weekly print articles in the Boise Weekly and radio segments on Boise State Public Radio.  Sadly, the weekly radio spots will be discontinued. These weekly stories about Idaho food helped to enlighten us about the surprising variety of food grown in the state.  They introduced us to the people who are quietly rejecting cookie-cutter industrial food and expanding our notions about what we can grow in our backyards, neighborhoods, and farms.  They brought us passion and joy about food.   Most importantly, these weekly profiles gave us hope—hope that in a world of uncertainty we have the ability to feed ourselves, and feed ourselves well. Just because the Year of Idaho Food has come to an end doesn’t mean that we should stop the festivities.   There are more stories to tell.  Please consider writing one for Northwest Food News.  And if Guy’s weekly radio shows were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of Idaho Food Wraps Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Janie Burns and Amy Hutchinson hadn’t organized the project called “2011: The Year of Idaho Food,” I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to spend the last 12 months sipping gin at 8:30 in the morning (well, once), foraging for stinging nettles in the forests of McCall, riding in a big-ass wheat combine on the Palouse, sampling more fermented foods than I thought humanly possible (or medically prudent), eating goat five ways, jet boating down the Salmon in search of pioneer apples and sifting through the sands of the Snake River for a lunch of fresh-water mussels (not recommended). And that’s just for starters. Still, my weekly collaboration with the Boise Weekly and Boise State Public Radio to write food and farming stories under the Year of Idaho Food banner was just one feature of the project’s broader agenda. “The Year of Idaho Food was envisioned as a means of engaging the public to think about their food,” local food advocate Janie Burns said of the statewide project she and Hutchinson dreamt up in March of 2010 while “Amy and I were trapped in a car for six hours, traveling back from Moscow where we’d both been at a food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With the New Year, Comes Change</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2012/01/01/with-the-new-year-comes-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Year of Idaho Food Wraps Up With 2011 coming to an end, so does the Year of Idaho Food (check out the projects accomplishments this Wednesday in the Boise Weekly.) As a result, Northwest Food News, web host for the Year of Idaho Food, will be making some adjustments. Some Things Will Change My contributions to Northwest Food News will be less frequent (at least initially) due to Boise State Radio&#8217;s decision to drop the frequency of my radio show “Edible Idaho” from weekly to monthly beginning with the New Year (if you have an opinion about that, contact the station). And since my contributions to the Boise Weekly were tied to those weekly radio programs, my print stories and their resulting website counterparts on Northwest Food News will also appear less frequently—at least for the time being. But Some Things Won’t Change Despite the initial drop in frequency of my contributions, many of the Year of Idaho Food’s best features—a web forum encouraging people from all over the state to contribute food and farming stories to Northwest Food News, the project’s food-centric events calendar, its Facebook and Twitter pages—have value that clearly transcend the Year of Idaho Food’s finite, [...]]]></description>
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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>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>The Complicated World of Idaho Garlic</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/11/11/the-complicated-world-of-idaho-garlic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book, A Garlic Testament, Stanley Crawford writes, &#8220;If you grow good garlic, people will love you for it.&#8221; That&#8217;s surely true, but here in Southern Idaho, the space between the garlic growing and the love is littered with complexity. Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re a home gardener: It&#8217;s late fall&#8211;perfect garlic-planting season&#8211;but you haven&#8217;t found the time to hit your favorite nursery. Instead, you grab a fat head of garlic from the supermarket, break it up into cloves and plant those cloves&#8211;not in the pasta sauce for which they were intended, but in your garden. What you&#8217;ve just unwittingly done, according to the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, is put the state&#8217;s $55 million onion industry at risk&#8211;and potentially cursed your own garden to a half century of white rot disease. White rot is a vicious little fungus that can hitch a ride on seemingly untainted garlic, but once planted in the ground, that bad seed will turn the onion, garlic and other allium varieties in the near vicinity to mush. In the late 1980s, a commercial Idaho garlic grower came down with &#8220;a big infestation of the stuff,&#8221; according to the ISDA&#8217;s Mike Cooper. &#8220;Once it gets in a field [...]]]></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>Palouse Wheat Farmers Go Against the Grain</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/10/21/palouse-wheat-farmers-go-against-the-grain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s harvest time on the Palouse, and North Idaho wheat farmer Wayne Jensen has invited me into the air-conditioned cab of his massive combine. A color-coded computer screen shows us exactly how many bushels of grain he&#8217;s harvesting moment-to-moment, while an automatic leveling system keeps the cab true to the horizon even as the rest of the machine tilts against slopes that can pitch up to 50 percent. It feels as if we&#8217;re riding in the coolest off-road lawnmower money can buy. As we sail along, a tractor towing a 785-bushel bankout wagon races to our side. Jensen flips a switch and his load of now-winnowed wheat arcs across a blue autumn sky from combine to wagon in a perfectly composed postcard for industrial agriculture. &#8220;We&#8217;re combining soft white winter wheat,&#8221; Jensen says as his console beeps and flashes and he steers a laser-straight line through golden stands of wheat that will most likely end up in Japan. On average, 80 percent of the wheat harvested in the Palouse region of North Idaho and eastern Washington is shipped overseas. But Wayne Jensen, a third generation Idaho farmer, is trying something new: growing a portion of his crop for local Northwest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Chef&#8217;s Affaire Photo Gallery</title>
		<link>http://www.nwfoodnews.com/2011/10/05/a-chefs-affaire-photo-gallery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked by the Boise Weekly to shoot photos of this year&#8217;s annual &#8220;A Chef&#8217;s Affaire&#8221; held last Saturday night in the Grove in downtown Boise.  Here are a few shots taken not only from the cavernous dining area where attendees perused auction items while local winemakers poured Idaho wines, but also from the frenetic kitchen where over a dozen chefs cooked up everything from cotton candy to pork belly. First, a description of the event from the Idaho Food Bank: As The Idaho Foodbank’s signature event, A Chefs’ Affaire provides an opportunity for friends of the Foodbank to come together and contribute to a single cause while enjoying one of the Treasure Valleys’ most unique evenings.  More than a 6 course plated fundraiser, A Chefs’ Affaire brings the elements of a live auction, silent auction, raffle and entertainment all packed into one great evening. A Chefs’ Affaire brings a unique twist on the live auction, giving you the opportunity to actually bid on a top Idaho Chef to cook for you and your guests. Or grab a great deal on a one of a kind weekend adventure or go local with an array of intriguing local packages. While our guests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Love the Lowly Lentil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Palouse&#8211;that beautifully fertile, camera-ready landscape of rolling hills, deep loess soils, ample rain and cool summer nights spreading across state lines shared between North Idaho and Eastern Washington&#8211;is nearly perfect lentil habitat. Until five years ago, it was the nation&#8217;s lentil-growing capital. Montana and North Dakota now share that title, but the Palouse region around Moscow and Pullman, Wash., still pumps out more than 100 million pounds of lentils a year. Agricultural output, however, can&#8217;t explain why the lowly lentil recently drew an estimated 26,000 people to the National Lentil Festival in Pullman, a mere lentil&#8217;s toss from the Idaho border. The lentil-studded lentil pancakes made with lentil flour do, as do the green-felt lentil costumes, the booths full of lentil T-shirts and assorted lentil knickknacks, the kids carrying lentil placards, the otherwise stable-looking young woman who spontaneously burst out a hallelujah-like &#8220;I love lentils,&#8221; the sweetly strange lentil desserts, and the long lines of lentil devotees queued up in front of a massive pot of lentil chili like worshippers awaiting lentil-laced Communion. &#8220;We&#8217;re giving away probably 375 gallons of lentil chili,&#8221; festival organizer Vicki Leeper shouted over the lentil-inspired din. &#8220;And it&#8217;s the biggest party on the Palouse.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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