I bet we Boiseans will eventually start munching on banh mi, or Vietnamese sandwiches, with the casual regularity of the once exotic taco, pad Thai or pizza (yes, pizza was once exotic). In larger American cities, eaters are already arguing over the virtues of rice over wheat flour banh mi bread with the gusto...
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Last Monday, Edible Idaho aired an NPR story on Idaho’s Bounty Co-op, a group bringing sustainably raised, local food to individual consumers.
Today, producer Guy Hand reports on Idaho’s Bounty’s attempt to provide large institutions like hospitals, universities and restaurants with local food. By selling wholesale quantities, Idaho’s Bounty plans to take home-grown meats, produce...
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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 that...
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Global Gardens is a two-year-old program put together by the Idaho Office for Refugees to teach and provide gardening space for refugee families in the Treasure Valley. Five gardening sites have been donated to the program and some 80 refugee families work the plots using organic farming methods.
Two of the sites are big enough...
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Who would think that Idaho and Iran have anything in common? Dr. Esmaeil Fallahi does. This Iranian immigrant and Idaho fruit researcher says you only have to visit his fruit orchard in Parma to see that southern Idaho and his Middle Eastern homeland have important similarities.
In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand...
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For the Coeur d'Alene tribe of North Idaho getting-back-to-their-roots isn't just a figure of speech. For the tribe, it literally means getting back to the foods that once sustained them.
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