Eastside Food Co-op Presents Equal Exchange’s Fair Trade 101

From the Eastside Food Coop newsletter: “Equal Exchange: Fair Trade 101, A Consumer’s Guide to Fair Trade.” On Thursday, February 26, Scott Patterson, Equal Exchange’s Minnesota Project Coordinator, will lead through the certifications for fair trade coffee, tea, chocolate, bananas, and tree nuts. 7-8 p.m. lecture, 8-8:30 discussion, 2422 Central Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418. […]

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Feb. 20 Morning Roundup

While Erin prepares for Restaurant Week, Penny makes some cold weather food with potatoes and cabbage and Jilly prepares some blackened salmon with blue cheese sauce. MN Stories just posted a campy bit from January making stewed chicken and corn bread using, well, solar power. At noon I’m sneaking to the Golden Fig to get […]

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Homegrown Minneapolis: Five Observations

Homegrown Minneapolis is designed as “an initiative to develop recommendations for the City of Minneapolis to improve sales, distribution and consumption of fresh, locally grown foods.” The project is confusing, ambitious, and has the potential to be tremendously important. Structured as a series of advisory committees working in concert with Mayor R.T. Rybak’s office, the […]

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A Tale of Two Dinners

Iggers, compelling as ever, surfaces at People Serving People and documents both a humble dinner for the homeless and a grand banquet/fundraiser for potential benefactors. God help me, but every time I read “People Serving People,” I think of that Twilight Zone episode.

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