Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
The daughter of an artist and a music teacher, Maja spent much of her childhood traveling the country in a rusty old van, attempting to model all of her father’s salable jewelry at the same time, and sampling the many edibles available both on the road and at the art fairs they visited. Though she now lives in Minneapolis, the coffee addiction and love for food that she picked up en route to one of their many destinations never left her. Between marketing work in the medical device industry and poring over the Harvard Business Review, she can typically be found holed up in her kitchen, baking bread every weekend and experimenting in between.
@SewardCoop plans to close early next Tuesday, @SweetsBakeshop has a few openings remaining for a Wednesday decorating class, @France44Cheese takes 15% off all “‘Sconnie” cheeses, @ChinoLatinoMN unveils another “adventure in the Hot Zones,” and @GrovelandTap (among others) hosts an event to celebrate of five years of Surly.
More@SewardCoop starts planning a book club, @ModernCafeMpls seeks a new chef to fill the void left by Phillip Becht’s move to the Birchwood, @SWMplsPatch reports on Cafe Maude’s decision to lose the jazz, @MNMOmag commends the top chefs in the latest competition, and @StribTaste seeks people with difficulty reading small-type menus in dim lighting.
More@SweetsBakeshop publishes their first newsletter, @RogueChocolate develops a new milling technique, @SurdyksLiquor starts their Heart Healthy Sale, @Celebr8nGenr8n offers a tip to make canned soup taste better, and there are a couple hours left to get in on @ChinoLatinoMN’s Chinese New Year Dinner.
More@Victory_44 offers some great nightly deals (including half off all tap beer all day today), @TracysSaloon jokes about a presidential imperative for local beer, @SmashburgerMSP offers a chance to win free Smashburgers for a year, and @Peace_Coffee previews some Honduran coffee they plan to buy.
MoreMartha and Tom prove that baking bread at a reasonable hour is possible in spite of a day job, 20.21 plans a Saracina wine dinner, The Well-Fed Guide to Life hosts their third annual listener’s choice awards, a Perennial Plate episode on Rustica — and homemade bread pudding, and positioning yak as a viable food […]
More@CheeseGeek offers “Portrait of WI Cheesemaker” calendars on sale, @HeidisMpls celebrates finally reopening while @DeRushaEats recommends a few particularly good dishes, @TravailKitchen posts their latest menu, @SweetsBakeshop opens up registration for February decorating classes, and @WannaBangkok tests the waters for QR code coupons.
MoreMN proves to be the #1 market for RumChata, Lazy Lightning despises Frank’s Red Hot Wings — Hot Buffalo Sauce (“Overall Frank’s Hot Buffalo Wing Sauce is foul. Absolutely disgustingly foul.”), Muddy Waters plans to move and expand into a restaurant and bar, Andrew Zimmern reports on Crave’s new-and-improved chef lineup, The Well-Fed Guide to […]
MorePizza bites, raw Tuscan kale salad with chiles and pecorino, kale-apple-blue cheese and squash-leek-chevre pizza, and pumpkin and shrimp bisque.
MoreBeet, sweet and kale soup, wild rice stuffed peppers, tortellini spinach soup, guest house cinnamon rolls, roast duck, butternut squash-ricotta pasta, and pork pie.
MoreA date night visit to Saffron, declaring “pie as the new cupcake” (seriously, where does one get good pie in the Twin Cities outside one’s own kitchen?), a plea to save Rock Bottom, Lazy Lightning interviews the management at just-opened Andiamo Italian Ristorante in Eagan, and a pozole taste-off: Taqueria Los Ocampos versus Tortilleria La […]
MoreCity Pages chats with Rustica’s Steve Horton (and gets his recipe for a cranberry galette), an organizational miracle for the average tea drinker, a visit to Roma in Willernie, MN, Dara’s synopsis of the Cake Eater situation, and A Perfect Pint reviews the Great Lakes Eliot Ness amber lager.
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