AltWeeklies Wire
Stashing the Staplesnew
Our hemisphere has tilted away from the sun. The farmers are weary. It's time to prepare the pantry for winter.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
09-30-2004 |
Food+Drink
Tastes Like Rabbit!new
Does rabbit really taste like chicken? And does it have to?
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
09-23-2004 |
Food+Drink
A Tale of Four Pepper Dishesnew
Hot hot hot—spicing up pepper dishes from Bhutan to Thailand.
Missoula Independent |
Ari Levaux |
09-16-2004 |
Food+Drink
Time to Pick Pecks of Pickled Peppersnew
Here comes the Rocky Mountain pepper season, that sweet and fiery window of late summer flavor. In the coming weeks, legions of angular, shiny fruits will adorn pepper plants in every color of the rainbow.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
08-26-2004 |
Food+Drink
Chocolate and Beets, Together at Lastnew
How heavenly is the taste of pure chocolate? Not very, unless heaven is a bitter place; chocolate -- the roasted seed coat of the cacau plant -- is made palatable only when combined with sugar. Oftentimes that sugar comes from beets -- the world’s #2 source of the sweet stuff, behind sugarcane.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
08-20-2004 |
Food+Drink
Tags: beets
Of Ducks and Mennew
Chef Boy Ari caters to a Montana men's retreat and learns how to get the duck out.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
08-12-2004 |
Food+Drink
Salad Gives You Something to Chew On at End of Mealnew
Food is about much more than how it tastes -- it’s about how you feel after you swallow. In this respect, it’s tough to beat raw foods.
Missoula Independent |
Chef Boy Ari |
08-07-2004 |
Food+Drink
Community Takes Stock of Its Foodshednew
Some are concerned that dependency on oil to ship food around the country draws Americans into conflicts overseas. Now some communities, like Missoula, Mont., are doing food assessments to evaluate the local food security scene.
Missoula Independent |
Chef Boy Ari |
08-07-2004 |
Food+Drink
Tags: agriculture, sustainable
Smoothie Operatornew
In the dog days of summer, Chef Boy Ari searches the globe for the world's best smoothie.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
08-06-2004 |
Food+Drink
Golden Potato Parachutenew
Chef Boy Ari gets to put his mouth where his money is when he's invited to cater for 35 at a five-day Rhythm retreat in the Montana wilderness.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
07-01-2004 |
Food+Drink
Season of the Garlic Flowernew
Garlic "scapes" are the stuff of epic springtime parties: Invite your friends to eat the flowers, breaded and deep-fried, or roasted in olive oil—or wrap the scapes around your wrists and traipse about like Greek gods and goddesses.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
06-17-2004 |
Food+Drink
Tags: garlic
The Chef Frolics in the Fungal Jungle Looking for Morelsnew
Ari goes on a hunt with Black Dog, whose T shirt reads, "Anyone foolish enough to ask a morel plucker where he got his morels is foolish enough to believe the answer."
Missoula Independent |
Chef Boy Ari |
05-21-2004 |
Food+Drink
