Baked custard seems like an old-fashioned dessert – until you realize it’s simply the classier crème brûlée or flan without a sugary coating. Then it takes on a status that seems outsized ...
More than 25 years ago, on a Peace Corps assignment in the Chinese province of Yangtze, Peter Hessler taught in a small rural college in the Sichuan river town of Fuling. Two decades later, just ...
I think of pumpkin as a fall vegetable, but last season’s homegrown and cured winter squash have kept so well that we’re still enjoying them. If you stored winter squash, it likely won’t ke...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2024/03/20/weeknight-pasta-with-roasted-pumpkin-and-parmesan/
When Lynsey Addario arrives in Kalispell to deliver a presentation at Flathead Valley Community College’s Wachholz College Center this Wednesday, she will be just about two weeks removed from h...
In explaining why she’ll be taking her first trip to Montana to speak at Flathead Valley Community College for an event that will be free to students of all grade levels, the celebrated novelis...
In my recent lentil workshop for Free the Seeds, I shared numerous recipes made with lentils, including this Moroccan soup. I tasted many versions of it while traveling in the country, always veg...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2024/03/14/harira-moroccan-tomato-lentil-soup/
Wearing a denim shirt made from two pairs of Levi’s jeans and holding a “frankentote” bag stitched together from an old sweatshirt, it’s easy to think that Justin Barry is something of a ...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2024/03/14/in-whitefish-justin-barry-has-designs-to-stop-waste/
LOS ANGELES – The Academy Awards were full of sure-things, long-awaited anointments and easy predictions. The “Oppenheimer” romp. Ryan Gosling’s Ken stealing the show. That put even mo...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2024/03/12/emma-stone-won-but-lily-gladstone-didnt-lose/
For Jean Meilleur, performing the music of Elton John and Billy Joel with a symphony orchestra isn’t about reinventing the pop stars’ signature music, but rather it’s about enhancing that m...
If pictures are worth 1,000 words, then the moving pictures featured in the Mountainfilm on Tour festival represent entire encyclopedias filled with adventure. The Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundat...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2024/03/10/mountainfilm-on-tour-to-screen-in-flathead-valley/