No-mayo potato salad, grass-fed mini burgers, crunchy swai with basil-goat cheese potato puree, curried pea soup, pickled rhubarb (etc.), white bean ragout, Italian sausage grill with gnocchi, leftover oatmeal pancakes, and cheddar chive buttermilk biscuits with extra creamy scrambled eggs.
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 [...]