What You Knead to Know About Bittercreek Pizza
Bittercreek Alehouse has returned pizza to the menu with an entirely new style and lineup.
Just Eat LocalSeptember 15, 2020
A Moveable Feast: How the Boise Mobile Farmers Market Gets Food to Those Who Need It
A note of dill floats on the air surrounding the line of customers patiently waiting outside the Boise Mobile Farmers Market van.
Just Eat LocalSeptember 9, 2020
A Basque Pepper Glossary
The delicious flavors of Basque Peppers, provided by Dan Ansotegui.
Just Eat LocalSeptember 2, 2020
The Epic Journey of a Pepper Seed: How Basque peppers crossed the Atlantic (twice) to become a Boise culinary specialty
No one knows how the very first Basque pepper seeds arrived in Idaho from the Basque Country, that long-contested, culturally-rich region in the mountain cradle…
Just Eat LocalSeptember 1, 2020
Recipe: Rodney Wray’s Fried Anglet Peppers
When it comes to preparing anglets, the simple way is best. If you can get your hands on these peppers, fry them using Rodney Wray’s…
Just Eat LocalSeptember 1, 2020
From Stage to Field: How a professional dancer finds a new calling on the farm
The good ones stick around year after year; passed between researchers, friends and family, fellow farmers, and so on.
Just Eat LocalAugust 25, 2020
Serving Up Local Food: It takes commitment, flexibility and understanding
As the global pandemic proves that our food chain is more complex than we could imagine, diners are drawn to the big L-word in cuisine:…
Just Eat LocalAugust 19, 2020
The Tipping Point: Does America’s Tipping Culture Promote Sexual Harassment?
Whether it’s a lesson we learn when our moms shuffle dollar bills into our palms for the hair dresser, or our parents’ Friday night debates…
Just Eat LocalAugust 11, 2020
Expanding the Notion of Local
When I first met Cynthia and George of C&G’s Wild Alaska Salmon, they seemed—a little too literally—like fish out of water.
Just Eat LocalAugust 4, 2020
A Lost Generation of Butchers, Millers and Canners: The coronavirus pandemic exposes Idaho’s declining food infrastructure
Janie Burns has raised grass-fed lamb in Idaho and Oregon for over three decades.
Just Eat LocalJuly 29, 2020
After-Shift Sips: Bittercreek staff members weigh in on favorite beers
The velcro-zip of a bottlecap. The quiet hiss of foam against glass. And finally, the inevitable sigh that a good beer evokes. These are the…
Just Eat LocalJuly 21, 2020
Local Food Collaborations Rise and Fall With Idaho’s COVID-19 Cases
Two years ago, Boise farmer Jessica Harrold of Hen & Hare Microfarm decided to give her CSA program a facelift.
Just Eat LocalJuly 15, 2020
Patios, Paychecks and Public Health: How FARE Idaho is giving voice to Idaho’s small-scale food scene
Meetings with the mayor, statewide calls to action, petitions to the governor and highway district politics usually don’t fill a restaurant or bar owner’s to-do…
Just Eat LocalJuly 8, 2020
Journey of Bittercreek French Fries: From Buhl, Idaho to Boise’s 8th Street
He describes meeting one conventional Idaho potato grower who admits not eating his own potatoes fresh out of the ground because “any potato I pulled…
Just Eat LocalJuly 7, 2020
Green Takes on Takeout: How eco-conscious restaurants are handling food packaging mid-pandemic
When Governor Brad Little signed Idaho’s first stay-at-home order on March 25, the repercussions for local restaurants were immediate.
Just Eat LocalJuly 1, 2020
Sustainable, Generational, Regenerative: Meet Desert Mountain Grass-Fed Beef
We woke up before dawn, grabbed our video gear from the motel and headed to a cattle ranch south of McCall. The fog was dense…
Just Eat LocalJuly 1, 2020
Temporary Diners: Creating community with cardboard cutouts
The heavy smell of ink accompanies the squeak of a Sharpie as Kelly Knopp draws thick lines across a slice of cardboard. The rest of…
Just Eat LocalJune 25, 2020
A COVID-19 Update From Your Friends At Bittercreek
A COVID-19 Update From Your Friends At Bittercreek
Just Eat LocalJune 19, 2020
Restaurants Reimagined: How the pandemic has Boise restaurant owners rethinking the business of feeding people
The Covid-19 pandemic pushed a global pause button that shuttered businesses and stopped the world in its tracks.
Just Eat LocalJune 10, 2020
The Greatest Grape: Winemakers discuss varietals of the Snake River Valley AVA
June 2020, Idaho Wine Month. The time of year when wine-lovers across the state visit their favorite vineyards and paint their palates with the flavors…
Just Eat LocalJune 10, 2020
Where’s Our Empire? Local brewery shares the plights of the pandemic
The most significant impact of the pandemic on Woodland Empire Ale Craft in Boise has been the disconnection from their customers.
Just Eat LocalJune 2, 2020
