The latest from Twitter: @Peace_Coffee plays cupid with “Caffeinate Your Cutie,” @triplerockmpls is serving @surlybrewing Mild at $3.50 a pint, @bittercube celebrates the long-anticipated opening of Eat Street Social, and @Masu_NE will feature a suggestive little Valentine’s Day roll through Tuesday.
CNN profiles a Minnesota farmer who’s fighting one of the Gulf of Mexico’s biggest “dead zones,” G Sheaves goes white wine tasting at a local Trader Joe’s, Jason DeRusha says a photo of our State Fair team depicts a “group of goofballs” [image of DeRusha provided for context here], a blogger praises Subo (our considerably older review is here), former Town Talk bartender Nick Kosevich (who contributed a story about the Old Fashioned to the Heavy Table) gets a little ink promoting his upcoming Milwaukee bar Distil, Aaron gets some unfortunate-looking photos of Lunds pizza, Simple, Good, and Tasty runs down the forbidden Fair favorite foods of local food personalities, a portrait of Sea Salt on a hot day, cast your vote over at Food Network for local food truck darlings Chef Shack, a gorgeous-looking pate with bacon and chantrelles being prepared at the new Heartland, Perennial Plate heads out to the Boundary Waters (part 1 of 2), and Jeremy Iggers says “no thanks” to Hmong-style pig uteri at Destiny Cafe. So: Who’s going to go out there and get us a uteri review? “Not it,” incidentally.
Tags: chef shack, CNN, Distil, Fair food, farmer, Food Network, G Sheaves, Heartland, Hmong, Jason DeRusha, morning roundup, Nick Kosevich, pate, trader joe's, uteri, wine
I already have plans to go in September. I’ll be the brave one.
Bill, you’re on — send us a write-up!
[...] for just about anyone. I was there for two things: Hmong sausage and pig uteri. While Iggers, and apparently Jim Norton of the Heavy Table, were both too wimpy to hit up the pig uterus, I certainly was willing to try anything [...]