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Cranberry Galettes and the Morning Roundup
City 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.
MoreFood as Art? and Morning Roundup
Badgers fan Jill of Cheese & Champagne (and The Heavy Table) stages a Rose Bowl cheese face-off, the best chocolate in the US according to Dara, considering a New Year’s detox plan, A Perfect Pint’s “Year in Beer,” a massive applesauce production line, and a discussion of the age-old question: Is food art?
MoreMay 7 Morning Roundup
Lola’s pizzeria is coming to the old Xerxes Market spot, DeRusha suggests that restaurants adjust price to suit demand, Michael of A Perfect Pint has a new monthly column in the Strib (about beer, if you can believe it), a Mother’s Day smorgasbord at the American Swedish Institute (plus a pile of other Mother’s Day […]
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Apr. 8 Morning Roundup
Summit Horizon Red Ale is debuting at Four Firkins on Apr. 13 [via MNBeer], A Perfect Pint reviews Lift Bridge Biscotti beer, Katie eats Choco Bananas so you don’t have to and also dines at Papa’s Pizza in Victory, nobody local made the cut for Top Chef Masters [on the AV Club via Chris], and […]
MoreMar. 2 Morning Roundup
“Delicious, nutty, buttery,” says Johnny Northside in a basically stomach-churning but interesting post about eating silk worm pupae, We Got Served rocks Be’wiched, The A Perfect Pint Beer Club is planning a malt-focused meetup on Mar. 21 ($20), MNBeer touts a Blue Nile Moylan’s and Lion tasting, and Iggers hits the Seward Co-op hot deli.
MoreAll Hail the Beer God
Michael Agnew (of A Perfect Pint) recently became Minnesota’s first Certified Cicerone. In a nutshell, he’s an independently certified beer sommelier, a title obtained after a four-hour exam with a 250 question written section, a 12 beer tasting section, and a demonstration. Presumably the beer tasting section comes at the end of the test.
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