If you start homemade vanilla extract in spring, it will be ready in time for holiday baking

Many of the ceramic human figures depicted in Braun’s new large format book are painted over with icons, symbols, logos and designs that stamp them permanently with the subjects of the artist’s concern.

Layering fresh herbs in salt lets you choose between using the whole leaves later or blending them into a flavored infusion

Last Gun says his art references traditional Piikani painted lodges and other traditional cultural imagery, and then reinterprets those designs in ways that are both familiar and new through an artistic lens he thinks of as “Indigenous geometric abstraction.”

Warm creamy beans and fresh mozzarella melt slightly into their bed of greens in this hearty spring salad

Mark O'Connor loves to think of fiddling as playing the American Violin, and Maggie O'Connor finds inspiration in tracing the influences that contribute to the particular strain of violin music that has taken root here.

For the first salad of spring, sprinkle handfuls of homegrown baby greens and chives amid robust grains and store-bought fruit

The kora is a 21-string instrument that originates in West Africa, and has been compared to the harp, lute and guitar.

These potatoes mash up fresh whey or buttermilk with the bold flavors of bagna cauda’s garlic and anchovies

Turn a bag of last summer’s huckleberries that sank deep into the freezer into freshly baked muffins

Tickets raise money for FVCC student scholarships and must be purchased in advance

Once you’re comfortable making baked custard, you’re just a topping away from crème brûlée or flan

In partnership with University of Montana’s Mansfield Dialogues speaker series, The New Yorker staff writer Peter Hessler will speak on April 4 at FVCC

If you still have winter squash in storage, use it before the warming, lengthening days cause it to soften

Developing relationships and reporting on people whose lives are regularly at risk requires Lynsey Addario to try and balance her professional standards with some of the personal feelings that inevitably form in the face of tragedy and struggle