@TroutCaviar seeks ideas for “sulfur shelf shrooms” (aka chicken of the woods), @128Cafe and @ScottPampuch team up in St. Paul to make ratatouille and poached eggs, @CakeEaterBakery promotes their new daily commuter special, @S4xton points to a “chef v. chef Twitter battle” (or, more accurately, chef v. Shef), and @GrassFedCattle offers a Facebook Fan Special on a few packages of steaks.
A detailed profile of local tea entrepreneur Lindsey Valentini, a $50 discount for new Backyard Harvest gardens, Saffron chef Sameh Wadi is rolling out a line of spice blends including Ras al Hanout, a blogger dings Loring Pasta Bar for gritty mussels, Surly brews it up with about 400 pals from the American Homebrewers Association, the Olive Grove olive oil and vinegar shop is open in Mendota Heights, and Minnesota’s lone beer cicerone skewers Surly Wet as a “one-dimensional beer with a muddy hop character and excessive bitterness.”








