‘The excellent fruit’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Few fruits can claim such iconic status as the pineapple. Cultivated for centuries — maybe millenia — by the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean,...
Category: Eats & Drinks
The Sandpoint Eater: Mangia on my mind
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Staff Lately, for a lot of reasons, I’ve had Italy on my mind. I recently helped a close friend plan a trip through Italy to follow her daughter’s long-planned dream...
Eat a peach
By Ben Olson Reader Staff In Shakey, Jimmy McDonough’s massive 750-page biography of Neil Young, he described the moment when Young bailed on Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young midway through a 1976 tour. The...
The Sandpoint Eater: Stirring up love
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist I turn to therapy cooking when I’m whirlwind-busy with my travel business. The kitchen’s my sanctuary, where I seek solace from work and life-related stress. These long days of...
Sippin’ suds at City Beach
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff In a time marked by so much divisiveness, it is good to remember something that many Sandpointians have in common: a love of beer. The Greater Sandpoint Chamber of...
The Sandpoint Eater: Baking for brides (and grooms)
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist June brides have been a-blooming, and this month I was fortunate enough to witness the unions of two of them. More than 2,000 miles apart, a couple of my...
Bite-sized bliss
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s one thing both visitors and Sandpoint locals can always agree on: our restaurants are top notch. There is no better — or cheaper — way to taste morsels...
Big sky beers
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff My husband Alex and I did not go on a honeymoon immediately following our wedding in July 2021. Having hosted the ceremony and reception at our home — and...
New life on Pine and First
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The building at 102 S. First Ave. in downtown Sandpoint — known so long as the home of Ivano’s Italian Ristorante — is launching into a new era this...
‘Pickles are a safe bet’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s hard to understand how the phrase “in a pickle” came to signify an unpleasant situation. There’s nothing unpleasant whatsoever about a pickle — or anything that’s been pickled,...
