The Sandpoint Eater: Cabo and capers
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Part luck and part pluck brought me here to Sandpoint more than 25 years ago. A group of investors hired me to oversee the guest …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Part luck and part pluck brought me here to Sandpoint more than 25 years ago. A group of investors hired me to oversee the guest …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Since my last column, I can’t get the Johnny Cash lyrics, “I’ve been everywhere, man,” out of my head. My first stop (en route to …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
I have my standard kitchen utensils and cookware, and I’m hard pressed to be lured into the superfluous gadgetry for sale in urban kitchen and …
By Marcia Pilgeram
Reader Columnist
Oh, fall, how I adore your beautiful and bountiful season. It’s a year of abundant harvest, and I must say, I have seen many cups …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …