The Sandpoint Eater: Eat these words
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist I have always loved words. And food. I especially love food words, and let me tell you, there is no shortage of lingo in the world of gastronomy. In...
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The Sandpoint Eater: Of meals and memories
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist Like it was yesterday, I can still recall the cocoa-brown dress, with candy-pink piping, that I wore for my first “real” restaurant experience. The occasion was my eighth...
The Sandpoint Eater: Simple Salmon
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist June 9 is Children’s Day, and I’ll certainly be doing my part to celebrate children, happily spending the day riding the rails alongside my two oldest grandsons, 12-year-old...
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...
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...
The Sandpoint Eater: Miodh for Mogue
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist It is just a few days short of St. Paddy’s Day, and I haven’t made even a wee bit of a plan to celebrate. I’ve been known to...
The Sandpoint Eater: A taste of Cuba
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist All I can think about, since returning from a recent trip to Cuba (I traveled on an Educational, People-to-People visa), is a repeat performance. Cuba was everything I...
The Sandpoint Eater: Ethnic eats
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist The last bits and pieces of Christmas have been carefully packed away for another year, and so far my much-needed two-day old diet has yet to be compromised....
The Sandpoint Eater: It’s Poh-TEET-sah!
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist Recently, I unrolled and floured the old, white cotton sheet I use to cover my table for pastry projects. This time, I was making povitica, the holiday bread...
The Sandpoint Eater: The Chosen Few
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist Recently, a friend asked me to recommend a few good cookbooks she could give as Christmas gifts this year. Cookbooks are my passion, so I took the...
