It’s harvest season and that means a flurry of farm to fork dinners in the Treasure Valley. Dinners showcasing local food are all the rage nationwide and whether you call them farm to fork, farm to table, or just food served outside, usually on or close to the farm that provided them, these...
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Radio producer Jeff Rice grabs a microphone and a bee keeper’s hood and follows Nampa bee keeper Randy Johnson into a field of carrots — and hundreds of bees. Johnson says “When you walk into a field where bees are really pollinating, that is music, that is what those bees are raised to do....
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A while back it struck me that I didn’t know what cheese was. I mean, I knew what it looked like and how it tasted — after all, I’ve had my share of grilled cheese sandwiches and molten mountains of gooey nachos — but I didn’t know cheese, how it was made, why a...
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As Idaho's wine industry flourishes, so does interest in becoming part of it. Unfortunately, that takes money and equipment. But a handful of new winemakers are trying one solution: a winemakers cooperative.
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The traditional restaurant review reviews, well, restaurants. Yet to confine the search for good food to four walls is to miss one of the most exciting trends in food today: the profusion of outdoor, farm-to-table dinners that have sprouted up across the country like morels after wildfire. An offshoot of the local food...
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This time of year, brewers are brewing holiday ales. But those big, rich beers require lots of hops and barley, ingredients that are getting expensive and hard to find. That could change your next pint of holiday cheer.
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The local food movement has caught on in Idaho. With a little effort, you can fill your plate with Idaho grown fruit, vegetables, meat, and fish. But not chicken. There wasn't a single commercial source of Idaho poultry in the state. Until now.
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