The Sandpoint Eater: I Love Pickles!
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist I’m at 30,000 feet right now, on my way back from Tampa, Fla. Last week I left home with a suitcase full of pickle making supplies and a...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist I’m at 30,000 feet right now, on my way back from Tampa, Fla. Last week I left home with a suitcase full of pickle making supplies and a...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Staff My first experience with refugees was more than 50 years ago. Just a couple of blocks from my childhood home in Helena, more than a dozen Cuban high school...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist Lately I’ve had several requests for my sweet bread pudding recipe. The truth is, this recipe, like many of my others, is predicated on what’s in my freezer....
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Staff My first attempt at holiday candy making was nearly 50 years ago. I knew asking my mother’s permission to make some wonderful treats on the stovetop would result in...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist In the past I’ve been able to convince most of my young, adorable grandbabes that there’s a very special, super-secret turkey farm where I go each year to...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Staff A walk anywhere near a grocery checkout station can cause serious pre-turkey tension. At least a dozen magazines scream for your attention with persuading headlines, tempting you to purchase...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist For the past six or eight months, I’d tried to plan an annual sojourn to the Davenport Hotel with longtime Missoula friends, Lynda and Helga. Sadly, each trip...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist I was so disappointed I couldn’t attend last week’s local Dancing with the Stars, but I was pleased to hear that my friend and neighbor Meggie Foust, paired...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist I’ve just returned from my annual family retreat. We came, we gathered and we delighted in one another’s company. And before my last child was safely home, we...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Staff The seventh season of the Sandpoint Community Garden is producing some bodacious vegetables. It’s a garden that nourishes our community; not only foodstuffs, but a keen sense of kinship...