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Finding Profundity in Food Updated: 2011-11-09 13:00:46 Description: CLAY SCOTT: You’re listening to Mountain West Voices. I’m Clay Scott. Margaret Corcoran got one degree in Latin, then got another in philosophy, classics and religious studies…but her entire professional life has had to do with food. KITCHE...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Craft Brewers Hope For a Share of Local Hop Crop Updated: 2011-11-04 11:00:09 Description: I simply wasn’t prepared for what I saw when Fred Colby, co-owner of Laughing Dog Brewery in Ponderay, pulled open the heavy door to his walk-in cooler. Instead of setting eyes on cases of craft beer, I caught the cold gaze of six very pink p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Seeking Genetic Diversity in Abandoned Apple Orchards Updated: 2011-10-28 11:00:20 Description: As we roared downstream through the River of No Return Wilderness via jet boat, skipping off rapids and dodging just-submerged boulders, I decided my imaginary movie version of this adventure should be titled Indiana Appleseed in the Canyon of Lost T...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Palouse Wheat Farmers Go Against the Grain Updated: 2011-10-21 11:00:55 Description: It’s harvest time on the Palouse, and North Idaho wheat farmer Wayne Jensen has invited me into the air-conditioned cab of his massive combine. A color-coded computer screen shows us exactly how many bushels of grain he’s harvesting momen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD In Awe of the Pawpaw Updated: 2011-10-14 11:00:21 Description: Jan Huskey, a big man with a kind smile and soft voice, greeted me in his Meridian yard, garden hose in hand. Behind him stood an unruly forest of fruit trees. “I’m just a common home gardener that happened to run into a friend that knew ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Idaho’s Newest (Old) Wine Region Updated: 2011-10-07 11:00:15 Description: Mike Pearson had heard the stories but wanted to find out for himself. Last fall he did a little detective work, poking through an abandoned vineyard some 30 miles east of Lewiston. “We were looking for grapes, trying to identify them by the cl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Coeur d’Alene Tribe Reconnects To Food Traditions Updated: 2011-09-16 11:00:42 Description: Stepping into the Family Foods supermarket in Plummer, 34 miles south of Coeur d’Alene, is not unlike stepping into a supermarket anywhere in rural America. A case full of day-glow donuts and thickly frosted cakes grab the eye the instant a sho...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Learning to Love the Lowly Lentil Updated: 2011-09-09 11:01:50 Description: The Palouse–that beautifully fertile, camera-ready landscape of rolling hills, deep loess soils, ample rain and cool summer nights spreading across state lines shared between North Idaho and Eastern Washington–is nearly perfect lentil hab...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Be-gin the Morning With Gin Updated: 2011-09-02 11:00:52 Description: The morning sun had barely cleared the cottonwood trees along the Boise River when the nine of us began to sip gin. The group called itself a “ginsmithing panel”–which certainly sounds more respectable than a breakfast cocktail part...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD It’s Crawdad Season! Updated: 2011-08-19 11:00:30 Description: Old folk song: “Crawdad Song” : You get a line and I’ll get a pole, honey . . . Hand: When I was a kid growing up in Twin Falls, we loved to catch crawdads in the canal by our house. Song: You get a line and I’ll get a pole, w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Second Coming of Idaho Beer Making Updated: 2011-08-12 11:00:35 Description: Kevin Dinius cocked his head to one side, as if trying to slide all the brewery names into a neat row before he spoke. “We’ve got Wallace Brewing from Wallace, Idaho,” he began to a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band accompaniment in the distances. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD High Desert Seafood? A Look at Idaho Freshwater Clams and Mussels Updated: 2011-08-05 11:00:59 Description: When Idaho chef, outdoorsman and BW writer Randy King asked if I wanted to tag along on a river-bound food adventure that included clams, crawdads, carp and cattails, I couldn’t wait. As the citizen of a state bereft of sea breezes and surf, I...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Getting a Taste for Lavender Updated: 2011-07-29 11:00:09 Description: There’s not another crop that caresses the senses like lavender. That sounds a little sentimental, a little grandmother’s-potpourri corny, but “caress” is the right word for lavender. Even before arriving at theLakeside Lavend...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Giving Chefs an Appetite for Mushrooms Updated: 2011-07-15 11:00:18 Description: Many cultures, including our own, once considered hunting mushrooms aberrant behavior. They are, after all, a sometimes filthy and occasionally deadly fungus. William Delisle Hay, a 19th Century British mycologist, wrote that a mushroom hunter was of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Migrants Harvest Cherries with a Song Updated: 2011-07-11 11:00:39 Description: RICHLAND, Wash. — The cherries are finally ready for harvest in the Northwestern U.S. A cold spring means that this is the latest cherry season anyone can remember. The Northwest News Network’s Anna King has this audio postcard from one of th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Luring Idahoans Back to Fishing Updated: 2011-07-08 11:00:51 Description: A mouth-watering aroma drifted out of an industrial warehouse behind the Jerome Fish and Game office. “Make sure you’ve got your cholesterol meds on board,” grinned Ed Papenberg, a senior wildlife technician for the Idaho Departmen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fun with Foraging: Finding food in the mountains of Idaho Updated: 2011-06-24 11:10:14 Description: Like a shaman’s cape, her knee-length, earth-toned jacket billowed behind Darcy Williamson as she moved silently through the woods near her McCall home. Even as she zigzagged her way through lodgepole pines, her eyes darting from tree limb to g...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mountain West Voices: A Montana Dairyman Updated: 2011-06-22 11:00:22 Description: Belgrade, Montana CLAY SCOTT: You’re listening to Mountain West Voices. I’m Clay Scott. I’d been wanting to visit Amaltheia Dairy for the last few years. It’s near Belgrade, Montana, on the western edge of the Bridger Mountains, and it ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD For Asparagus, A Cold Spring Isn’t All Bad Updated: 2011-06-17 11:00:17 Description: (Sounds of market) Hand: The Northwest endured a surprisingly cold, cloudy spring. It slowed the growth of many vegetable crops by weeks. Who knows when we’ll have ripe tomatoes. But according to Jerry Stelling, a vendor here at the Capital City Pu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Going to Okraville: A small farm from a family tradition Updated: 2011-06-10 11:00:58 Description: “So where are we headed?” I asked Jason Brashears as we hiked to the far end of a field that looked as if it were planted in nothing more promising than plowed dirt. “We are going to Okraville,” he said with a grin and a tip o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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