‘The saloon will never come back’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It is a well known fact that Sandpoint’s early history was rough and tumble. When researchers excavated the original townsite on the Sand Creek peninsula preceding work on the...
Category: Eats & Drinks
The Sandpoint Eater: Kitchen comfort
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist As much as I love my travels to foreign destinations, exploring fascinating new (to me) cultures and sampling unknown foods that amuse my palate, our old friend Dorothy from...
Mad About Science: Medieval cuisine
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Movies, television and film have given us an idea on what medieval food must have been like: slop and watery gruel for the peasants while the aristocracy bathed in...
All the fixings
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Most people would agree that the desire to help our neighbors reaches its peak this time of year. As snow settles in the valleys of the Idaho Panhandle and...
Just what Sandpoint kneads
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Bluebird Bakery is bright and lively on a Monday afternoon. Smells of freshly baked bread and coffee intermingle as patrons work on their computers, chat in groups and grab...
The Sandpoint Eater: A day with Darina
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist I’ve circled this island so many times, anxiously peering out the window as the airplane dips and banks, offering me a glimpse of the variegated green landscape of my...
The Sandpoint Eater: Meeting Martha
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Recently, I took a weekend trip to southern California to host a dinner for clients. My eldest daughter Ryanne joined me, and it was a rare getaway for my...
‘We sell fun’: The 219 Lounge turns 85
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The 219 Lounge has been many things to many people. It has also been many bars. Opened in October 1934 on Pine Street as the Old Bohemia Club, it...
Pass me the pumpkin spice
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff I take pride in my coffee order: a 12-ounce dark roast drip, hot, no room. There’s a simplicity and subtle badassery to drinking your coffee black, but in reality,...
Rising in the bread biz
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The first bread Heidi Dinning ever made was in the fourth grade in Sandpoint, when her class learned what happens when you combine yeast, flour, salt and sugar, butter...
