SENIORS It is rare to find a builder who wants more restrictions, regulations and red tape to encumber the construction process. But that’s what Dennis Cunningham of ActiveWest Development signed up for when he decided to build Meadow Ranch, a sustainable 55-plus community in Coeur d’Alene.
LIFESTYLES To cook “from scratch” seems to be a dying art — college kids may think the only meaning of the word relates to an itch. But Chef Jason Rex, co-owner of Scratch Restaurant, knows the true culinary meaning. After all, he learned it from his grandmother, Eve. Read More>>
ALT MEDICINE The cuisine of India is a colorful, flavorful delight, filled with vegetables and redolent with aromatic spices and hot chilies. Pungent curries are among the best-known dishes, and here in the United States we tend to think of curry as a single flavoring, thanks to the marketing of a rather bland (by comparison) product known as curry powder. But in India, you’d be hard pressed to find curry powder: Every good cook has her own tin filled with individual spices and herbs — coriander and fennel seed, cumin and black mustard seed, cinnamon and cardamom — and these spices are blended differently into each dish. Read More>>
FROM THE EDITOR As the neighbors of Ed Begley Jr. can attest, once you begin paying attention to the impact of your life on the planet, it can provoke more than a little anxiety. I’ve even heard a new term for the obsessive behavior the anxiety can lead to: “carborexia.” Read More>>
PEOPLE When Ralph DeCristoforo was a graduate student at Washington State University, he wrote a report for a one-credit class. The report detailed the creation of a health care access project, a program to help the most vulnerable and uninsured get health care. Read More>>
