Faribault Dairy wins a top-in-class prize for its gorgonzola at the World Championship Cheese Contest (we toured their caves last year), True Thai introduces kimchi fried rice, Zake calls it quits, Dara’s details on a new Meritage crepe stand, Iggers endorses the food at St. Paul’s Homi restaurant, a Lift Bridge beer dinner at 128 Cafe and a Furthermore beer dinner at Sapor, and Rick’s hot five weekend brunch spots.
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.








