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Febgiving
Beard Nominees, How Find Great Chinese Restaurants, and More
A look at the Beard Award nominees for Best Chef: Midwest, beer jellies, a fight over water quality, how to find great Chinese restaurants, and more.
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Braised Butternut Squash Kaddo
We adapted the traditional Afghan pumpkin recipe of kaddo to use a butternut squash.
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Febgiving on the News
Febgiving gets its due over on WCCO, which produced a video segment featuring Heavy Tablers Becca Dilley and James Norton. The Thanksgiving-in-February holiday got started five years ago, and is still going strong.
MoreA Local Food Guide for Chefs and Morning Roundup
The Minnesota Project has put out a new guide [here as a PDF] for chefs who want to buy local food, The Washington Post shouts out some local eateries and the Minnesota-born holiday of Febgiving, eating at Teresa’s Mexican Restaurant in Lakeville is “like eating at an Americanized Chinese buffet” writes Bill Roehl, Zimmern brings […]
MoreMarch 1 Morning Roundup
Martha and Tom visit St. Albert the Great’s fish fry (no bingo, though?), the Amici Pizza and Bistro menu via Reetsyburger, Kate wraps up Febgiving over at City Pages and on Fork, Knife and Spoon, some details on a summer farmers market in Highland Park (sixth item, thanks to Ed Kohler), and City Pages presents […]
MoreFebruary 23 Morning Roundup
Minneapolis Febgiving photos (featuring the international debut of Cornish Gamehenge), how to pair your chardonnay with Wisconsin cheese, fish fry listing madness at Metromix, it’s time to start pondering CSAs, a look at Featherstone Fruits and Vegetables and its polymath proprietor, and a brief review of the Food and Wine Experience (beer + chocolate = […]
MoreFebgiving in the Star Tribune
Star Tribune writer Kim Ode explains Febgiving, our in-house made-up mid-winter holiday that is feeling increasingly real as the years roll by.
MoreFebruary 15 Morning Roundup
Pondering why bakeries are closed on Sundays, insight into beef stroganoff, a chowhound rants about the service at Nick and Eddie, and Alemar camembert. I may post some more stuff later today. Right now, after six hours of Febgiving food and drink, I’m pretty well spent. Well fed and socialized. But spent.
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