Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
Month: September 2009
Sweet Cheeks Monday Freebies
Sweet Cheeks Baby Food (baby food with a local, organic twist) is offering two free food items with any online order of $20 or greater placed today, Monday Sep. 14. Enter your free choices in the “special instructions to merchant” section during checkout.
MoreLift Bridge Brewery Video
In July, Flak Radio interviewed Steve Rinker and Brad Glynn, two of the founders of Stillwater’s Lift Bridge Brewery. A video version of that chat has been made available to Heavy Table, so we’re putting it out there for your enjoyment.
MoreApple, Apple, Apple, Cat + Giant Tomato, Etc.
Lurcat’s apple, cheese, and chive salad, Martha and Tom make ratatouille and praise SweeTango (the apple that “has it all” — Lileks likes it, too!), cat + giant tomato at Food If By Land, and three new local caterers respond to a slackening economy.
MoreSeptember 14 Morning Roundup Part II
The beers of Autumn Brew Review via The Captain’s Chair, some gory pig prep photos from Simple, Good, and Tasty, the little-known Abetto’s of St. Paul is carrying some fine craft brew, all hail the Furthermore Shitty Barn Party [via MNBeer], and it looks like Heartland is staying in St. Paul.
MoreSeptember 14 Tweet Rodeo
Is the new SweeTango apple all it’s cracked up to be? @Dulcey says “yes”, @HyperLocavore plants Egyptian walking onions due to their Dr. Seuss-style whimsy, @Rick_Bayless tweets a recipe for chipotle salsa, @CookingForDads recommends Taste of Thaiyai in Apple Valley, and @HighlandGrillMN and its affiliates offer a free meal to all bald-headed customers on October […]
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September 14 Morning Roundup
The Sample Room adds a late night happy hour [PDF], the fight to save Bena’s Big Muskie Drive-In, Locally Grown Organic Vegetables from Outer Space, oh man a recipe for chocolate cinnamon rolls and, elsewhere, plum galette, Anna from True Thai meditates on alcohol and abstinence, and Mecca hails the east St. Paul Dari-ette.
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Knife Skills, A Serial Novel – Part 15
Each Friday, the Heavy Table presents a new installment of Knife Skills, a culinary novel presented piece by piece as it’s written. If you’re uncomfortable with salty language, please be aware that characters regularly use words and phrases unacceptable in polite conversation. In the author’s imagination, some members of the food service industry have a […]
MoreZimmern Eats Manny’s
After correctly IDing the need for Michael and Jen of Top Chef to knock boots, Andrew Zimmern gently takes Manny’s the woodshed, giving their steak a grudging “8 out of 10,” panning the sides, and knocking dessert: “Shockingly, the key lime pie tasted like a jello mix from a box.” At $100 a plate, “they […]
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