Flavors Under the Big Sky: Celebrating the Bounty of the Region, hosted by Stella Fong is a monthly audio show interviewing all who make our region more delicious. Chefs, cooks, bakers, producers, growers, ranchers, farmers, winemakers, brew masters, distillers, and all who create bounty in the region share stories about how they make our region more flavorful.
Flavors Under the Big Sky was the recipient of the 2022 E. B. Craney Non-Commercial Radio Program of the Year, awarded annually by the Montana Broadcaster’s Association for Farm to School Park County Farm Fresh Fridays. Flavors was also a nominee for the 2022 International Association of Culinary Professionals Media Awards for Radio Show.
In 2021, the program Yellowstone Valley Food Hub – Feeding the Local Community from the Dirt was a finalist in the Non-Commercial Radio Program of the Year.
Theme music is by Parker Brown. https://www.pbrownsound.com/
Fong is author to the cookbook Flavors Under the Big Sky: Recipes and Stories from Yellowstone Public Radio and Beyond, Billings Food and Historic Restaurants of Billings. She contributes regularly to The Last Best Plates for Lee Enterprises Montana Food Section and to Yellowstone Valley Woman Magazine. Her articles have appeared in Big Sky Journal, Cooking Light, The Washington Post, and Fine Cooking.
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In Fishtail, MontAsia is moving aside the traditional cowboy eats for more global flavors.
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Tucked into an intimate nook behind the main bar, fresh oysters procured from farms on the East and West Coasts, and freshly cooked crab and lobster are bringing flavors of the sea to this land-locked hideout in Billings.
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In her studio located in a cottage near the MSU Bozeman campus, Linda Huang shares the food from her childhood and cuisine from her native country.
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In Columbia Falls, aromatic and dynamic concoctions are being packaged and sent to kitchens near and far.
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In north-central Montana, the 1028 Steakhouse holds flavors beyond what can be found on the menu.
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Clay Boyce is earning his way of life as one of the only hops growers in north central Montana.
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Off of Love Lane, just outside Bozeman in the Three Hearts Farm, gourmet mushrooms are being cultivated by Ben Dueling at SporeAttic.
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A month after Rock Creek washed through the center of town, some restaurants in Red Lodge say they’re open for business and awaiting guests from near and far.