Jon Bennion

1 week ago | montanafreepress.org | Jon Bennion

Wide Open Table is a bi-monthly Montana Free Press column on all things food and cooking. Sign up for this newsletter here. Higher latitudes mean we spend a bit more time in cooler spring weather than the rest of the country. But that just makes Montanans appreciate summertime even more, right? As spring leans into summer, I find myself hunting for the fresh and the green. That can mean heading to my local farmers market or sourcing locally grown produce in grocery stores.

3 weeks ago | montanafreepress.org | Jon Bennion

Wide Open Table is a bi-monthly Montana Free Press column on all things food and cooking. Sign up for this newsletter here. Rolling up to a gas station with food in mind is usually a recipe for highly processed, quick-calorie, overpriced junk food. I think about the road-food meals of my teenage self: a bag of some new flavor Doritos, a Big Slam of Mountain Dew and a shrink-wrapped meat stick. Shameful, I know.

1 month ago | montanafreepress.org | Jon Bennion

Wide Open Table is a bi-monthly Montana Free Press column on all things food and cooking. Sign up for this newsletter here. Any discussion of Montana’s food heritage should include the first Montanans — the diverse tribal communities and nations both on reservations and ingrained throughout the state’s communities. The foodways and diets of American Indians in Montana varied from tribe to tribe prior to Europeans coming on the scene.

1 month ago | montanafreepress.org | Jon Bennion

Wide Open Table is a bi-monthly Montana Free Press column on all things food and cooking. Sign up for this newsletter here. We’re heading into one of my favorite seasons: farmers’ market season. While it may take a bit before fresh produce starts to show up at the stands, it’s not too early to bookmark this recipe, which collects the bounty of Montana into a healthy and delicious dish for summer. I’ve lived in many places around the state with seasonal farmers’ markets that seem to expand each year.

2 months ago | montanafreepress.org | Jon Bennion

Wide Open Table is a bi-monthly Montana Free Press column on all things food and cooking. Sign up for this newsletter here. Intermediate Chef Jon Bennion is taking a springtime break this week. In his absence, we’re republishing his kebab column from May of last year. Jon will be back in MTFP with fresh cooking content on May 5. I like grilling any time of year.