A self-professed “blue-collar town,” Kalispell, Montana, doesn’t have the ski-town Old West vibe of nearby Whitefish. Its main street, with its sturdy brick buildings, reflects an agricultural and ranching center that came of age during the early 20th century. It’s a town where Wilderness Outdoors offers 10,000 gallons of 10-gallon hats and a mile-long shelf…

As long as humans have gathered in groups, the question of what’s to eat has been a serious topic of conversation—from a freshly killed wooly mammoth to the prixe fixe menu and matching wine flight at the French Laundry. With the growth of cities and global migration, our ability to decide what we’re in the…

“There are mountains,” I was assured as my first day in Kalispell, Montana, and the Flathead Valley dawned so gray it felt like a wintry blanket had been pulled over it. I would obviously have to wait for the great peaks and the multitude of wilderness activities the region promised to reveal themselves. Over the…