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The Churn by James Norton

Big Ol’ 2012 MN State Fair News Roundup

Rick’s authoritative State Fair food roundup and ranking, how new foods fight their way into the Fair, your Day 2 beer guide to the Fair from MNBeer.com, CHOW.com’s Supertaster (i.e. me) hits the Fair, we’re generally big Sara Boyd fans but we have serious questions about how she can endorse that heartbreakingly bad bacon ice […]

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The Churn by James Norton

Pumpkin Turnovers and Recipe Roundup

Cherry berry breakfast smoothie, Kavalierspitz, Sweet Cornmeal Cake and a farewell from Tangled Noodle, mushroom agnolotti, chocolate cake de luxe, garam masala vegan dip (I prefer mine plain, but different strokes, etc.), tacos de lengua and Satan’s Whiskers, Halloween baking, pumpkin turnovers, and Minnesota gubernatorial recipes.

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The Churn by James Norton

The John Henry of Bartending

The Strib reports that Chris Raph, a bartender at the Shout House in downtown Minneapolis, shattered the Guinness World Records for most drinks mixed in an hour. He whipped up 662, crushing the previous record of 389. That’s a bit faster than a drink every six seconds.

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