Chris Olson

Chef Chris vs. Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Chef Chris Olson fires some high-caliber rhetorical rounds at a highly visible target: The Splendid Table. An amuse bouche for his case: “The program as a whole is too soft. Cooking is one of the most visceral things that we do. It is inherently a destructive process. We take vegetables and manipulate them with knives […]

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Chef Chris’s Street Food Wrap-Up

Chef Chris Olson has a good wrap-up of yesterday’s hearing on street food in Minneapolis. A quote: “All in all, it was good to hear people at City Hall talking about changing the zoning regarding food trucks, but as the changes stand, I feel like it’s a watered down version of what could be a […]

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February 2 Morning Roundup

Seward Co-op is doing a pet food drive for the pets, a local blogger gives the new Domino’s pizza a modest thumbs up, local homebrew insight into the apparent horror show of making lambic beer, reflections on an epic “cooking for a date” fail, Red Pepper is moving to Paris for five months and bringing […]

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June 8 Morning Roundup

Anna from True Thai breaks down the difference between coconut milk and coconut juice, Bostonians romp through town and marvel at Kramarczuk’s brats, the giant beer cups at the Metrodome, and the amazing Jucy Lucy, The Four Firkins is doing a free Rogue tasting 6-8pm Tuesday June 9, Molly of AndrewZimmern.com questions the cost of […]

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