The Sandpoint Eater: Let us eat cake!
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Our days in Ireland are waning, and every time I ready myself to return home from here, packed alongside my tired clothes and a handful of edible souvenirs, is...
Category: Eats & Drinks
Sandpoint Farmers’ Market to open for 37th season
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Since its founding in 1988, the Sandpoint Farmers’ Market has been a beloved institution that draws locals and tourists alike to Farmin Park every Saturday and Wednesday through the...
The growing hunger
By Ben Olson Reader Staff “For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.” — Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner There is, perhaps, no worse feeling than going hungry....
The Sandpoint Eater: All stalked up
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist My surefire “signs of spring” are popping up everywhere. For the third year, the sweetest crow ever (whom I’ve christened Crowbie) has made himself known to me. He delights...
Mad about Science: Food preservation
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist This week’s subject was a suggestion by Steve Sanchez. Thanks, Steve! As any connoisseur of gas station sushi is aware, food preservation is important. We can’t always finish a...
The Sandpoint Eater: Our days with Da
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist She’s back… and just in time to celebrate a new decade. It’s a milestone birthday for me, and I’ve already been shown so much love that it’s mind-boggling! It’s...
Slug Tales from Zone 6: Starting a vegetable garden
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff As the stress of modern life increases and the cost of groceries continues to rise, more and more people are turning to the peace and self-sufficiency that home gardens...
The Sandpoint Eater: Good morning, Vietnam
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Good morning, Vietnam! Good morning, Sandpoint, from Southeast Asia’s faraway and exotic setting, where I’m aboard a river boat cruising on the Mekong Delta from Vietnam to Cambodia. I...
Oat milk and the truthfulness paradigm
By Mariela Rebelo Reader Contributor I’ve been thinking about truthfulness a lot lately. Mainly because lying and being lied to is apparently being normalized now, and we are at risk of losing accountability, trust...
The Sandpoint Eater
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist I just got home from Canada. I flew to Vancouver, British Columbia, to meet with travel industry partners. Many Alaska cruises begin or (end) in Vancouver, and I like...
