Where community and coffee collide
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff It’s nearly 80 degrees in the roasting room at Scotchman’s Coffee on a sweltering, early-summer day. The small drum roaster heats up while the three of us — roaster...
Category: Eats & Drinks
An ode to beer
By Jen Jackson Quintano Reader Contributor Many of the more interesting episodes in my life have been sponsored by beer. There was the performance of 90210-themed haiku at a prominent open mic night and...
What’s new?
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Editor’s Note: New businesses are springing up all over Sandpoint this summer, and here at the Reader, we’re making an effort to introduce them to the community. Are you...
The Sandpoint Eater: A big appetite for adventure
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist With a big appetite for adventure, and curious to learn more about the exotic region of Southeast Asia, I recently headed to Vietnam and Cambodia. Though I consider...
Feel-good beach fiesta
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When it comes to describing this Sunday’s Cinco de Mayo fundraiser at Trinity at City Beach, Cami Murray keeps it simple: “food, booze and a good cause.” Murray is...
Back for the season: The Sandpoint Farmers’ Market celebrates opening day May 4
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff With the spring weather (hopefully) here to stay, North Idaho’s produce growers are readying their harvests for the first day of the Sandpoint Farmers’ Market. Saturday, May 4, marks...
The Sandpoint Eater: One sweet trip
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist As the westbound Empire Builder ground to a halt at the Williston, N.D., train station, Miley, my 11-year-old granddaughter, gave me one last hug on the vestibule of...
Still weird after 25 years
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s just something about Eichardt’s. Whether you’re a fan of the food, the cozy atmosphere or the social discourse over pints and plates that occurs every day, it’s just...
The Sandpoint Eater: In a Jif
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist One of the first recipes I recall mastering was peanut butter-potato pinwheels. Stirring powdered sugar into leftover mashed potatoes created the base dough, which was rolled thin (more...
Garden Art
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When local farmer Lisa Troutner needs a new color for her palette, she doesn’t squeeze it from a tube of paint – she grows it in the ground. Troutner...
