Yelper Rhonda G. writes of Mandarin Kitchen: “The experience of dimsum reminds me of the minor eating disorder called ritualistic eating.”
The Strib diagrams the D’Amico gastronomic family tree, City Pages presents the top five Oktoberfests, the Well Fed Guide to Life hits The Big Ten, a funny meditation on the longevity of an open bottle of wine, the story behind volunteering for the Second Harvest Giving Green food collection effort, Lucia Watson is receiving a Chevalier du Merite Agricole (a French food-oriented knighthood, more or less), and a profile of vegetable farmer Shur Yang of the Minneapolis Farmers Market.






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