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May 5 Tweet Rodeo

@Amy_Boland revels in #Rampstravaganza, @France44Cheese offers fresh Italian burrata, @The_Wedge has the first local strawberries of the season — “from Farmington to table,” @FourFirkins samples Great Lakes today, and @BryantLakeBowl provides buy one get one bowling during happy hour through tomorrow — just say “Twitter.”

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April 29 Morning Roundup

Corporate drama at the company that bought Oceanaire, breaking news on cheese “pee” and cheese “nipples,” it’s ramp mania around here, Subo’s head chef is out, the joy of unexpected morels, and Rachel’s top five Mother’s Day brunches (warning: four-page slideshow).

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August 3 Morning Roundup Part II

Mecca salutes Rudolph’s BBQ for its longevity and slams the food, Trout Caviar lets us know that ramps are still around and are great in rice pilaf, Lee makes progress on his backyard farm, a gorgeous Miel y Leche vegan blackberry lime cupcake from massdistraction in the Heavy Table Flickr pool (plus some mutant tomatoes […]

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May 29 Morning Roundup

Trout Caviar whips up some brown trout escabeche with ramps and asparagus, DeRusha’s omnipresent always-streaming Jasoncam catches Don Shelby in the act of stealing a cupcake, a kickass watermelon photo from surlygrrrl in our Flickr group, Katie makes some monsterburgers, and giant beer glasses pop up over at Town Hall [via MNBeer].

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Driftless 150

Dan Patterson from Rabbit’s Bakery in Lake City will be doing the local foods dinner (ramps! morels! bison brats!) accompanying this month’s Driftless 150 fundraiser bike tour from Afton State Park to Zumbro Falls. Money raised by the tour will benefit two causes: Renewing the Countryside and Two Wheel View.

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May 1 Morning Roundup: Mostly Goofy

Andy Sturdevant seeks your best original bourbon-based cocktail recipe (due this afternoon, so hurry it up), Bill Roehl advocates for drinking in parks, City Pages interviews an eight-year-old girl who ate a 28-inch pizza or something like that, Philip Dorwart tells you how to forage and cook fiddlehead ferns and ramps, and some guy on […]

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Foraging for Grub

Slow Food Minnesota is putting on one of the most interesting fixed price meals to come down the pike in quite some time. For $30 ($20 for members), you can enjoy a foraging dinner at the Ralph Lentz Farm in Lake City, MN from 11am-6pm on Sunday, May 17. The menu features braised elk, wild […]

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