High Desert Seafood? A Look at Idaho Freshwater Clams and Mussels
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
From: Guy Hand
Length: 00:04:00
About 300 species of freshwater mollusks live in inland North America. For Native tribes, they were a dietary staple. In this episode of Edible Idaho, Guy Hand goes in search of freshwater clams.
Also in the Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho series
A Year of Idaho Food Wrap Up
(00:04:00)
From: Guy Hand
Producer Guy Hand looks back on the highlights of the 12 month long project called "2011: The Year of Idaho Food."
Balancing Ducks, Diversity and Dollars: The future of local food
(00:04:00)
From: Guy Hand
Producer Guy Hand visits a small-scale farmer who gave up a tenured university professorship in the wake of September 11th to grow local, organic food. But ten years into her ...
Chestnuts Return to America
(00:04:00)
From: Guy Hand
After a blight killed most of America's chestnut trees back in the 1930s and 40s, a new industry has sprouted up using new varieties of blight-resistant chestnuts. Producer ...
Quince: A Path to the Past
(00:04:00)
From: Guy Hand
Modern science acknowledges the unique power of taste and aroma to teleport us back in time. It’s simply the way our brains are wired. For Boisean Dave Turner, quince was the ...
The Raw Milk Deal: Idaho legitimizes small-scale raw-milk producers
(00:04:00)
From: Guy Hand
Every few months, it seems, TV news or amateur videographers capture another raid on a raw-milk supplier somewhere in America. In the past several years, law enforcement ...
Bagels, Bialys & Hope
(00:03:58)
From: Guy Hand
A baker brings bagels and bialys to the small, North Idaho town of Hope.
Get Yer Goat: A new meat on American menus.
(00:04:00)
From: Guy Hand
Say the word “goat” and most Americans picture a horned cartoon with a taste for tin cans. But what we Americans don’t get about goat–and the rest of the world does–is that ...
The Complicated World of Idaho Garlic
(00:04:00)
From: Guy Hand
The Northwest has several crop quarantine zones to control the spread of diseases. In southern Idaho, a quarantine zone helps protect the states large onion industry, but it ...
Craft Brewers Hope For a Share of Local Hop Crop
(00:04:00)
From: Guy Hand
Many brewers consider hops to be the essence of craft beer making. Yet, in the America's hop growing epicenter, the Northwest, craft brewers often can't procure the hops that ...
Seeking Genetic Diversity in Abandoned Apple Orchards
(00:04:00)
From: Guy Hand
Producer Guy Hand jet boats into Idaho's River of No Return Wilderness with a team searching for remote and abandoned pioneer-era apple orchards. They're hoping to save those ...
Related Pieces
Transcript
Idaho Clambake
Edible Idaho Feature: 0805GH_Clams.wav Feature 4:00 08/05/11 GH/
[HOST INTRO] This is Edible Idaho with Guy Hand, celebrating 2011: The Year of Idaho Food. (4:00 to soc out)
[HOST OUTRO] For more on this story or to listen to past Edible Idaho programs, go to radio.boisestate.edu/edibleidaho.
[SCRIPT]
(Boat and river sounds) Randy: We’re out on the Snake River at Swan Falls.
Hand: When Idaho chef, outdoorsman and writer Randy King asked me if I wanted to tag along on a clambake, I couldn’t wait.
Randy: We found some clams a couple of weeks back and we’re going to try to find them again, gather up a couple other things, and we are going to try to do an Idaho clambake.
(Boat Revs)
Hand: Yep, you heard that right: an Idaho freshwater clambake. About 300 species of freshwater mollusks live in inland North America. For Native tribes, they were a dietary staple. Look close...
Read the full transcript
Related Website
Of 4 purchasers of this piece...
- 4 also bought:
Learning to Love the Lowly Lentil (00:04:00) - 4 also bought:
Tribes Reconnect To Food Traditions (00:04:00) - 4 also bought:
Idaho’s Newest (Old) Wine Region (00:04:00) - 4 also bought:
- 4 also bought:
