Aaron Landry

Aaron is the Co-founder and was the Producer of the Heavy Table. Born and raised outside of Stillwater, Minnesota, he has called both Saint Paul and Minneapolis home. His personal site is aaronlandry.com

The Craftsman in the Washington Post

The Washington Post’s Tom Sietsema sends a “postcard” from Minneapolis: “…the arrangement [of the charcuterie] at Craftsman reveals surprising personality and a sense of place. Rabbit terrine finds chopped rabbit bundled in house-cured pancetta. Duck liver mousse, whipped up from fowl from northern Minnesota, is sweetened with local apples and pears rather than booze. There’s […]

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Vote For Your Favorite Omelet and Brew

Today starts Coffee News Cafe and Vine Park Brewing Company’s “tasting trials” where, using Instant Runoff Voting (IRV), patrons vote for their favorite items. At Coffee News Cafe, they’re testing new omelets — and the winner stays on the menu. At Vine Park Brewing, they’re testing brews. Voting ends in a couple weeks, then other […]

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August 27 Afternoon Roundup

Lee at Simple Good and Tasty posts the recipe for Red Stag Supper Club’s Corn Puree, Vegetarian Perspective covers Cafe Twenty Eight, Pioneer Press readers dreamed up a bunch of junk to put on a stick (a reader also suggests cheese-flavored milk. Yuck!), and the Star Tribune opens up their entire section online for the […]

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What’s Up With Figlio, Meow?

Head cat over at Parasole, Phil Roberts, has been meowing on Twitter as of late: “about to MEOW in November….in Figlio space in Uptown…remember…cats like fish.” Perhaps he shared the new name: “Bustopher Jones is not skin & bones. Infact he’s remarkably fat. He’s the cat we all meet as we walk down the street. […]

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Zimmern Posts D’Amico Kitchen Menu

Andrew Zimmern posts the new D’Amico Kitchen menu, which he confirms opens on the 24th of this month. (If you have Adobe Illustrator, you can see 6 or 7 old versions of the menu with varied pricing — whoops!) Better yet in the next paragraph, he links to the posting of tax delinquencies in the […]

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August 17 Morning Roundup

Beekeeper Jim Kloek shares some honey recipes, Ericka Bailie-Byrne shares some Miel y Leche cupcake photos from last weekend, Minnesota Monthly posts a video interview with Trattoria Tosca’s Executive Chef Adam Vickerman, Sarah Burt launches a new local BBQ blog, and Metro Magazine’s Becky Lang shares a White Truffle Grilled Cheese recipe. Yummy.

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Deal on Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes

Martha Stewart’s Wedding Cakes, the book, is 50% off, now $30, at Williams-Sonoma in Maple Grove. The Heavy Table’s Kelly Hailstone writes, “It’s a beautiful hardcover coffeetable book that happens to be extremely informative and practical. Includes recipes, descriptions of every kind of cake batter, icing and piping style you can imagine. I had been eyeing […]

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