Religions frequently struggle to find a balance between the spiritual and material world. To some people Heaven and Earth often seem at odds. Today, though, many faith-based organizations are finding that balance . . . in the garden.
In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand looks at churches that believe good...
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More and more people are getting directly involved in food. Growing it, cooking it, even blogging about it. Some are going still further: plunging — literally — into the meat of the matter.
In this installment of Edible Idaho, correspondent Guy Hand visits a class where every student wields a knife — and the desire...
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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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Wanna teach Rover to fetch something more delectable than the daily paper? How about a truffle hunting class?
For the first time, a two-day seminar on truffle dog training is being offered as part of the annual Oregon Truffle Festival in late January near Eugene. Here’s what the Truffle Festival website says:
“That truffles, the grandest of...
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Tis the season for holiday feasting. But some celebratory foods can be a little hard to swallow.
Like blood sausage.
Made from the blood of freshly killed animals, it’s not exactly a holiday favorite. So why have people flocked every November for over a half century to the Boise Basque Center . . . to eat...
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Thanks to Chris Oates at TreasuredValley.com, who pointed this study out to me, here are some additional and very interesting statistics to expand on the recent NPR story I did called “The Arugula Wars” on the question of whether conservatives and liberals eat differently. According to the report, they certainly do.
Here’s a summary of the...
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(GH: Long before “locavore” was a word, Northwesterners have harvested the local bounty by hunting for it. Here’s a link to a recent radio story produced by The Northwest News Network and broadcast on Northwest Public Radio):
Every five years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service counts how many Americans hunt. That number has fallen...
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You’ve heard of micro-breweries. How about “micro-canneries?” They specialize in locally-caught, hand-packed albacore and salmon. A growing number of commercial fishing families are choosing to can their catch themselves. They can’t begin to compete with supermarket prices. But some of the custom-canned fish is reaching farmers markets, mail order catalogs, food co-ops, and the...
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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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More than most cuisines, Vietnamese gives your taste buds the chance to sample the landscape from which that cuisine sprouts. In wine-speak it’s called terroir: the taste of place.
That flavorful physicality is embodied most clearly in the deep green tangle of fresh herbs called rau thom, or fragrant vegetables, that accompany many Viet dishes....
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