Posts Tagged ‘ quince ’

New Funds Save Parma Research Center, For Now

February 5, 2010
By Guy Hand
Dr. Esmaeil Fallahi, Photo by Guy Hand

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 and...
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Demystifying The Quince

November 12, 2009
By Guy Hand
Demystifying The Quince

(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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A White Flag of Fruit

September 8, 2009
By Guy Hand
A White Flag of Fruit

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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