To celebrate the release of ceramic artist Stephen Braun’s new book, “Hindsight & Foresight is 20/20,” the Whitefish Review is hosting an event this Friday, May 3, at 101 Central in downtow...
Each spring, I inventory last season’s saved herbs and make a list of what’s running low. Many herbs grow readily and are just as easy to preserve. When I can no longer savor a homegrown herb...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2024/05/02/salt-preserved-herbs-and-herb-infused-salt/
Before his “Piikani Visual Sovereignty” exhibition at the Hockaday Museum of Art in downtown Kalispell officially opened up in early April, the Piikani artist Terran Last Gun had one last pie...
Homegrown springtime salads become progressively leafier as weeks pass but remain stubbornly green until summer vegetables start to ripen. Radishes are about the garden’s only early topping wit...
The award-winning violinists and married couple Mark and Maggie O’Connor have long sought to blur the boundaries between the fiddle-style of play that is their hallmark, and the classical tradi...
As spring arrives, I’m sneaking handfuls of the first crops: chives, walking onions and red sorrel. My spring greens are just sprouting in their outdoor beds, but friends with local CSA shares ...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2024/04/18/warm-quinoa-and-feta-salad/
The kora may not be an instrument that Flathead Valley music fans have heard of, but one if its most famous players, Sona Jobarteh, has seen the way audiences across continents, and cultures, rea...
Whether I’m baking or mashing potatoes, I load them with flavor. I consider baked potatoes just the vehicle for fermented and pickled treats like curtido or grilled cherry tomato and corn salsa...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2024/04/11/bagna-cauda-style-mashed-potatoes/
One of the best parts about eating down last season’s food stash is finding treasures deep in the chest freezer – like huckleberries. Whether forgotten or intentionally horded, I feel like I�...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2024/04/04/berry-chocolate-muffins/
Tickets to tour the elaborately landscaped grounds of Bibler Gardens go on sale April 1, according to an announcement from Flathead Valley Community College, which sells tickets to raise money fo...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2024/03/29/tickets-go-on-sale-for-2024-bibler-home-and-garden-tours/