Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
Your vote is in high demand: @MetroMixTC wants your input on the Best of 2011, and — more urgently — @DeRushaEats points to the close race between Erik Anderson of @SeaChange_Mpls and “some dude from Little Rock” for People’s Choice Best Chef in Food & Wine… and urges you to vote before the polls close […]
MoreBlack bean burritos, grilled cheese made with bricks, Szechuan shrimp cakes, chicken wontons, chicken and dumplings, salad with Champagne-chive vinaigrette, and orange shortbread bites.
MoreFebgiving gets its due over on WCCO, which produced a video segment featuring Heavy Tablers Becca Dilley and James Norton. The Thanksgiving-in-February holiday got started five years ago, and is still going strong.
MoreGovernor Walker is (reportedly) booted from a Madison restaurant (the Merchant) after being booed by other patrons; Whiskey on Water in Princeton, WI bans political talk (at least until things cool down); wine maven Dara gears up for far too much vino at the Food & Wine Experience; a reasonable case for Rustica being the […]
More@SurlyBrewing is featured on @Northern_Brewer TV and gets some accolades from Fox (via @CaptainsChair), @CTKitchenTable gets a new website, @WFMStPaul trades chocolate for donations, @MplsFarmMarket applauds Hopkins Public Schools for their partnership with local farmers, and @SecretsCity promotes the @GastroNonGrata art show featuring food from @ForkNRoadTruck (read our profile here) this evening.
MoreCaramel pecan lace cookies, Freedom Stout, sweet and spicy apple slices, xanthan gum ravioli, homemade bread, and black bean chili with butternut squash.
MoreTim Gihring of Minnesota Monthly has filed a chilling and detailed report about the Asian carp invasion of the Midwest in general and Minnesota in particular; beyond the quality of the writing, the top photo (of a dozen-plus airborne fish) is worth a click. Related: a local marketing firm tries to make the fish more […]
MoreThe MLBA’s latest flip-flop on the Surly brewery (they’re against it again), a slate of Mspmag Restaurant Week picks, what may be the world’s first photo of a wedding ring atop hotdish, MNMO’s doing a booze book giveway, Nye’s piano player Sweet Lou Snider is wrapping up her career this Saturday night, a brief interview […]
MoreSummit Brewing Company’s statement on Surly’s controversial brewery proposal: “We fully support the idea of selling pints on premise at breweries. In fact, Summit President Mark Stutrud and Ted Marti from Schell’s have been quietly building alliances to promote this legislation for several years. As we continue to work to be able to sell our […]
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