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SUNDAY JUNE 12 food and wine SAVOR IDAHO If the crew of YouTube’s Epic Meal Time can teach us anything—besides how to roll fast food sushi or construct a giant corndog—it’s the epic potential in absurd quantities of food and alcohol. Fortunately, you don’t have to consume 45,000 calories worth of bacon and Four Lokos in one sitting to understand this connection. Now in its third year, Savor Idaho, hosted by the Idaho Grape Growers and Wine Producers Commission, will showcase a vast array of Idaho’s wineries and restaurants to satisfy both the foodie and the wino in you. Wine enthusiasts can sample award-winning wines, taste recent releases and chat with the winemakers about their creations, with the opportunity to purchase their favorite bottles. Tasting will begin promptly at 2 p.m. and run until 6 p.m. This year, wineries include Bitner Vineyards, Cinder, Cold Springs Winery, Fraser Vineyard, Indian Creek Winery, Ste. Chapelle and many more. The tasting doesn’t stop there. Local chefs from Idaho’s premier restaurants will prepare taste-sized portions of special menu items, including noshes like roasted pork posole from Bardenay, lemon cupcakes with lavender cream frosting from Bon Appetit, chopped sirloin tapas and onion marmalade from D’Arcys Catering, Thai spring rolls from Mai Thai and a selection of artisan breads from Zeppole. And to get you spinning, the Wheel of Wine is back with fabulous incentives to raise money for the Idaho Wine Scholarship Fund, which helps to educate community members on the process of winemaking. Other wine- and food-related exhibitors will also be in attendance to supplement the imbibing with entertainment and educational displays. Tickets are $40 for ages 21 and older, and can be purchased online at idahotickets.com or at Idaho Botanical Garden. You can snag two tickets for $70 with the Boise Weekly Card at weeklycard.com/boise/specials. 2-6 p.m., $40. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Road, 208-343-8649, savoridaho.org.
day, June 16, 7:30 p.m., $40-$72.50. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.
is an opportunity to dance and sing along with trained actors and other fans, both seasoned and new. Tuesday, June 14–Thurs-
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Lyle and John performing together? Gotta Lovett.
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Fleur de sel, a type of French sea salt, is handharvested in the summer months by scraping off the top layer of crystals that form on salt evaporation ponds. It’s a rare—and delicious—mineral-rich salt with a faint smell of the sea. Boise’s Janjou Patisserie, an artisan boutique bakery, features the exotic salt in a few of its handcrafted desserts. Janjou’s buttery chocolate and fleur de sel cake, for example, boasts hunks of bittersweet dark chocolate coated in fleur de sel, baked up in a rich Belgian chocolate cake batter. janjou.com According to its website, Janjou Patisserie takes pride in BOISE CO-OP using only the finest foodstuffs, 888 W. Fort St. 208-472-4500 “We use no artificial ingredients boisecoop.com or preservatives so everything we make tastes of what was used to make it.” Spearheaded by head baker Moshit Mizrachi-Gabbitas, Janjou Patisserie also features an array of tarts, cookies, cheesecakes, coffee cakes, macaroons and petit fours. Additionally, it offers a selection of quiches—in flavors like tomato onion or mushroom leek—and savory pastries, like the layered black olive and pecorino pastry. You can order Janjou’s exquisitely packaged confections online at janjou.com or find a limited selection of products— like orange Florentine sables, palmiers and chocolate orange crinkles—at Boise Co-op, next to the Gaston’s Bakery bread display. —Tara Morgan
music LYLE LOVETT AND JOHN HIATT Iconic Texan and country/jazz music legend Lyle Lovett has become just as famous for his personal life as he has for his nasaly vocals and lanky frame. His brief marriage to Julia Roberts in the early ’90s rocketed him into the Hollywood spotlight, and he’s continued polishing his acting chops ever since, starring in a number of Robert Altman’s films like Short Cuts and Cookie’s Fortune. Lovett also hit up the TV circuit, making appearances on shows like Dharma and Greg and Mad About You. In December 2010, he reunited with Helen Hunt on stage, playing the singing role of Balthasar in the Shakespeare Center of L.A.’s production of Much Ado About Nothing. You can watch the Grammy-winning musician, screen actor and thespian command the stage at Outlaw Field on Tuesday, June 14, with special guest John Hiatt. A prolific rock musician and songwriter, Hiatt has released 19 studio albums over his career and had songs covered by everyone from Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan to Mandy Moore and Iggy Pop. Hiatt’s highest-charting studio album, Perfectly Good Guitar (1993), was released in the middle of the grunge era and the title track includes the oddly tragic lyrics, “Oh it breaks my heart to see those stars / Smashing a perfectly good guitar.” 7 p.m., $45. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.
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