I hesitate to invoke the famous Marcel Proust time-travel tale one more time, since uncountable references to that story have ricocheted across food literature like pepper-spraying cops across the Internet. But for those whose reading habits haven’t myopically focused on food and culture, I’ll briefly recap: In the novel Remembrance of Things Past by...
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Yesterday, Capital Press reported contributions from several groups will allow specialty crop research to continue at the University of Idaho Parma Research and Extension Center. Last September Edible Idaho aired a story on Dr. Esmaeil Fallahi, a fruit researcher for the Parma Center who has done innovative work to bring new fruit crops to the Northwest...
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(GH): Here’s a story from NPR on the quince. Like the paw paws I discovered a few weeks ago, quince are a fruit I’ve seldom eaten but keep bumping into this fall. I’ve seen them at the Boise CoOp and at the recent blood sausage festival at the Boise Basque Center (as very delicious...
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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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