The Sandpoint Eater: My choice is chocolate
By Marcia PilgeramReader Columnist There are moments when the world feels too loud to recognize. Lately, for me, politics has been one of those things. The elections left me carrying a heaviness like a...
Tagged: Ireland
The Sandpoint Eater: Peas be with you
By Marcia PilgeramReader Columnist I just returned from a holiday to Ireland. I was traveling with a couple of favorite cousins and — like I once did — they assumed that potatoes are the...
Panida to screen Oscar-nominated Banshees of Inisherin
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff Much has been of the vagaries and mysteries of romantic love. Lovers have been spurned, seduced, forbidden and unrequited across the centuries and forms of artistic expression, but precious few...
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...
Creideamh Sí, or Irish fairy faith
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Due to the Irish diaspora and humanity’s love of drink, St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide with green-themed decorations and pints of Guinness. Since most modern traditions ignore the...
Panida to host two $5 screenings of classic rom-dramedy The Quiet Man
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff In a tip of the tammie to St. Patrick’s Day, the Panida Theater is hosting two screenings Sunday, March 16 of the 1952 romantic comedy/drama The Quiet Man. Directed...
Mad about Science: Great Famine of Ireland
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The Great Famine, which took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852, is something many of us learned about to some degree in school. It was a tale with...
Erin go craic
By Ben Olson Reader Staff At one point in history, slang was regarded as the vocabulary of disreputable people, with those in high society refraining from such low speech. Today, everyone from street urchins...
The Sandpoint Eater: Generational fare
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Call them what you may — miners’ pasty, Cornish pasty, Butte pasty or meat hand pie — no other food evokes stronger food memories for me. I grew...
The Sandpoint Eater: A few of my favorite things
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist It’s hard to believe Thanksgiving is behind us, and November is nearly a wrap. Now, we march on to the madness of the December holidays. This year, my family...
