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Susan Perrin showed interested visitors the travel sketch journals she keeps during last year’s tour. Wendy Little of Trail Creek Cabin was among the chefs experimenting with the caviar.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
Saturday evening’s Martini & Caviar Party at Sun Valley Co.’s Roundhouse restaurant on Bald Mountain. Ray studied zoology at the University of Oklahoma and started a catfish farm in California’s Imperial ove over, famous Idaho potatoes. Valley in 1968. In 1973 he went in search of a new, There’s a new product from the Gem better way to raise fish. State capturing foodies’ He found it at Thousand Springs near attention: Idaho caviar. Caviar, or Hagerman which, he says, has the largroe, harvested from Idaho white “A fish is like a est volume of top-notch spring water in sturgeon is touted as being so the world. tasty it’s being called the Amerisponge. It tastes like “A fish is like a sponge. It tastes like can beluga. water it lives in, and our water is so The Idaho Department of Agrithe water it lives in, the much better than many of the waters you culture recently promoted Idaho around the world,” Ray said during caviar at Le Cordon Bleu’s culiand our water is so find the promotional event at the Ram. nary exhibition for chefs in ChicaRay grows the prehistoric fish in congo, and chefs took notice. much better than crete raceways where the water is 58 “Everyone kept saying how much many of the waters degrees year-round. The constant tembetter it was than others,” said perature allows him to harvest roe every Kay Knab at a recent cocktail and you find around the month, compared with places with fluccaviar party that brought Idaho tuating temperatures where caviar can fish farmer Leo Ray together with only be harvested in spring. Sun Valley chefs at the Ram Bar. world” Ray worked with Idaho Fish and Game Knab is on the team at Fish -Leo Ray and College of Southern Idaho in 1988 to Breeders of Idaho, Ray’s aqua-agtake the eggs of Idaho’s sturgeon, which ricultural farm in Hagerman. Fish Fish Farmer at that time were headed for the threatBreeders will play a big role in ened species list. He had to wait another this week’s Sun Valley Harvest 10 years to harvest his first caviar. Festival, supplying the caviar for STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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wo years ago, Suzanne Hazlett took part in the Roaring Fork Studio Tour, which showcased artists at work in their studios outside Aspen, Colo. When she returned to Ketchum, she did the math. It’s 42 miles between Glenwood Springs and Aspen and only 18 miles between Ketchum and Bellevue. Why couldn’t we do something like that here? she thought to herself. “It would be wonderful to gain such recognition for the talented artists we have here,” added Hazlett, an abstract painter who works in mixed media. Hazlett went to work, fleshing out her idea with Sun Valley Center for the Arts representatives. Then, she enlisted the support of Brooke Bonner, a fine arts photographer who had organized a small tour of Bellevue artists the year before. The Wood River Valley Studio Tour was born. Fifty-five artists took part in the inaugural tour last October that stretched from Martha Andrea’s printing and collage studio south of Bellevue to Will Caldwell’s log cabin studio out Warm Springs Road west of Ketchum.
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