Edible Idaho

COOKIN’ UP COMMUNITY: An outdoor feast with more on the menu than great food

• Photo by Guy Hand

  At first glance, you might mistake this for just another summertime cookout in the mountains of Idaho.

• “We’re all slaving tirelessly, day after day, to try to make a go at this,” Florence says of those working in the local food movement.

• “Who’s got three James Beard chefs in the same place cooking on a campfire?”

• We had seven chefs preparing dishes with no coordination whatsoever and somehow everything went together.

• Everybody who was there is committed to seasonality and when you cook things that are in season, they tend to all go together.