Peaceful Belly Farms owner Josie and Clay Erskine put on their first Tomato Fest, a tasting of 20-some different varieties of tomatoes, at Boise’s Capital City Farmers’ Market on Saturday, September 12th. Josie Erskine said that people go to the farmers’ market, in part, to get food they can’t find at a supermarket. “But...
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This was initially to be the new site for the NPR show Edible Idaho, a radio show on food and agriculture in, well, Idaho. But these days the subject of food and agriculture can hardly be contained within the borders of a single state. Neither can our enthusiasm for the subject. So, we’ve taken...
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Janie Burns of Meadowlark Farms in Nampa is bringing boudin to Boise. If you don’t already know, boudin is a much loved, meat and rice sausage you’ll find all over Louisiana’s Cajun country. Janie has been working on the recipe with sausage maker Lin Hintze of Big Lost River Meats in Mackay, Idaho and...
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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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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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The Monastery of St. Gertrude, north of Grangeville, is surrounded by some of the most beautiful country central Idaho has to offer. It's no wonder that the Benedictine sisters of St. Gertrude feel a close connection to the land.
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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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