Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
Four Daughters Vineyard & Winery near Grand Meadow, MN, held its grand opening this weekend (it makes its wine on site from cold-hardy grapes); the National Mustard Museum of Middleton, WI, gets a new lease on life; Cannon River Kitchens apparently makes a decent sweet cardamom bread mix; an excellent preview of some of 2012’s […]
MoreThe owners of Schell’s Brewery get a Service to Mankind award (it is pretty good beer), a review of Joey Nova’s pizza in Tonka Bay, urban farmer Will Allen and Andrew Zimmern will co-headline the Kickapoo Country Fair organic food fest, seasonal eating at Rainbow Chinese, the Heavy Table talks pies on All Things Considered, […]
MoreThe HomeMade Pizza Co. opens a branch in Calhoun Commons, Dara’s got a shotgun blast of Nick and Eddie news updates and insights (booze crisis! not closing! simpler menu!), Green Your Plate does some cool stuff with corn, apparently the Pizza Farm also offers the world’s cutest kittens for adoption, Aaron from Captain’s Chair has […]
MoreSue from Bemidji visits a charming outdoor brick calzone oven, a chowhound fights to save Ramy’s Mediterranean Cuisine and New York Style Pizzeria in Apple Valley, Chef Chris thinks the $50 Williams-Sonoma Meatball Grilling Basket is stupid (we concur), Rick Nelson eats a ton of ice cream and charges it to the paper, Teddy digs […]
MoreAndrew Zimmern channels Andy Rooney, Parasole is launching a new Uptown venture called Lake Street Cafeteria and Support Group (and trying retool the perpetually-flailing Figlio), Hennepin County Library has a cool list of 36 nonfiction food books [via Stephanie], Downtown Journal meets the Hmong farmers of the Mill City Farmers Market, MNBeer checks out the […]
MoreTom Horgen reports on a hoppy beer party at the Blue Nile, the Nordeast Bar Hop, and Braufest. Plus, via an email update: Longfellow Grill is having a patio party on Wednesday, June 3, from 5-9pm featuring $2 Summits and brats. Summit’s own Mark Stutrud will be in attendance.
MoreKris and Mag at Beer Musings give big props to a four-oz. pour of Eel River Raven’s Eye Russian Imperial Stout, as featured at an intense Day of Big Beers at the Blue Nile. Quoth Kris: “Even at 9.5% this is an easy drinker that is well balanced enough to be had for a long […]
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