Like Smith Family Farm pork, Lifeline Farm cheese, Bitteroot beet salad and Big Dipper Ice Cream?

What do Smith Family Farm Pork Green Chile Stew, Egg Noodle & Chard Goat Cheese Torte, Bitterrroot Beet Salad, and Big Dipper Ice Cream have in common? Well, besides the obvious, they’re all local food producers. And if you like local foods, there’s a great event going on at The Good Food Store this weekend. [...]

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How do you like your Crassostrea gigas?

Personally, I like mine cold and salty like the Pacific Ocean from whence they came. I like them small and briny with a mignonette of Champagne peppercorn sorbet. I like them from Bald Point and Totten Inlet. I like them from Pebble Cove and Sister’s Point. Shoot, I even like Crassostrea Sikamea and Ostrea Lurida, [...]

MCPS Farm-to-school program featured in national documentary

Missoula County Public Schools will be featured in a national documentary that will show how local foods are used to create nutritious lunches for the children.

Iza – Like finding an old friend

That is if your friend were a beautifully crafted dish of buffalo rendang in a bento tray.
By the way, this is not meant to serve as a formal review or anything. I just happened to have lunch at Iza today, and I wanted to share the experience with the four of you who read this [...]

Crepes can make you swear

In Russian they’re called blini, which happens to have a double meaning in that culture. A small child might be heard to say “blin,” only to receive a severe look from his or her mother. Inevitably, the child says something like: “What, I was just asking for pancakes.” Oh, to have a breakfast food that [...]

How to grill a lobster tail

I realize there is nothing local about lobster, but when my wife asked for lobster for her birthday dinner, my visions of elk medallions went right out the window. I also realized I had never prepared lobster other than already chopped up and added to a lobster bisque.
When my wife sidled up to me as [...]

Video blog: Yes You Can Cook! Stir-Fried Pork

Eating Montana

The famous/infamous? chef of “I write, I eat, I travel fame spent some time in Montana for a Travel Channel show, “No Reservations,”  which aired recently. His whereabouts: Livingston, I presume. Tony, as we slightly masochistic followers of his show call him, spent some time on the range, learned to fly fish, tried the obligatory [...]