The Sandpoint Eater: Pride and prawns
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist It was good seeing Bego again. She owns the Cook and Taste Cooking School in Barcelona. When we met last September, we made plans for my ladies’ group to...
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The Sandpoint Eater: Rice is nice
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Here I go again. I’m leaving this week to escort a small group of adventure-seeking ladies to Spain. When I travel, this column tends to have a mind of...
The Sandpoint Eater: Makes scents
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist When I returned home from my most recent travels and opened the 60-pound suitcase that I’d carried far too often the previous two weeks, it carried me right back...
The Sandpoint Eater: Benito & Nonna
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Staff Hopefully, all of my edible Italian treasures — carefully wrapped and crammed into every nook and cranny of luggage space — will find their way past U.S. Customs, and...
The Sandpoint Eater: Pie in the sky
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnis Next week, I’m off on a long-planned adventure, though my timing is bittersweet. I’ll be missing my favorite family holiday: Easter. It’s so early this year that it snuck...
The Sandpoint Eater: Morning stretches
By Marcia Pilgeram reader Columnist My oldest offspring, Ryanne, is a talented and prolific baker, who always arrives with a boule or two of her lovely, crusty sourdough bread. A couple of months ago,...
The Sandpoint Eater: All choked up
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist When my anti-train noise neighbors lobbied and won approval for a no-horn zone in Ponder Point, I sorely missed those long, warning whistles from the big, blue-liveried engines of...
The Sandpoint Eater: A piece of cake
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist It’s a wrap, folks. The 16th annual Heart Ball proved as successful as its predecessors. The following night, I watched the Grammys and thought that the Bonner General Health...
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: Hello sunshine
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist Come to Arizona, they said. It will be fun and warm, they said. I’m not sure how often it snows in Tucson, but of course, I was there for...
