Link to the Show / Show NotesA mouth-watering aroma drifted out of an industrial warehouse behind the Jerome Fish and Game office. “Make sure you’ve got your cholesterol meds on board,” grinned Ed Papenberg, a senior wildlife technician for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game‘s Magic Valley Region, as he entered a doorway into what looked like a coven of Macbethian witches toiling in dim light over a half-dozen bubbling caldrons. But the scent was less eye of newt than deep-fried, down-home fish fry. “This is the second year we’ve done this,” Papenberg said of a free public feed christened the Annual Magic Valley Sportsmen’s Fish Fry, Chips and Tips. “And it’s basically an event where we invite folks in the community to come and enjoy fish that were raised or caught locally.” Fishing isn’t often considered in terms of the local food movement–and the word locavore wasn’t uttered at the fish fry. That doesn’t mean the two don’t coincide. “Hunting and angling really fits with this whole notion of finding sustenance close to home and finding sustenance that you have a hand in procuring,” Papenberg said. “Although we don’t state it in this fish fry–’welcome locavores’–that’s actually implicit in a lot of what we’re doing.” [...]
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