ENUMCLAW, Wash. – One of the catch phrases of the local food movement is “farm-to-table” — eating food grown nearby. Now small forest owners want to join the local food party. And no, they’re not talking about feeding you sawdust. Instead, local forest products include edible mushrooms, berries, and a salad green called miner’s...
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The mornings may be dark, the air icy, but that doesn’t have to mean an end to local food. Boise’s Capital City Public Market, for instance, isn’t folding up its tents for another couple of months. On November 6th, it will simply shift into Holiday mode. As correspondent Guy Hand learns in...
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Global Gardens is having their annual Harvest Dinner this Saturday night, so I thought it appropriate to post a previous Northwest Food News introduction to Global Gardens and the important work they’re doing to integrate refugees into the community through gardening. (At the end of the post is information on the dinner itself.) Global...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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