Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
The 2010 James Beard Foundation Award semifinalists are out — gaze upon the glory. For Best Chef: Midwest, some very solid names: Alex Roberts. Isaac Becker. Vincent Francoual. Stewart Woodman. Lenny Russo. Mike Phillips. And (new to me) Hakan Lundberg of Cosmos. D’Amico gets a shot at Outstanding Restaurateur, Bar La Grassa for Best New […]
MoreThat guy on Facebook calling himself “Chef Lenny Russo” is not, in fact, Chef Lenny Russo of Heartland. The real chef — we’re pretty sure — wrote a long column in the Star Tribune meditating on the sometimes elusive nature of online identity… and the general lack of legal recourse. (We wrote a few weeks […]
MoreLemon and plenty of pepper are keys to Chef Scott Pampuch’s perfect turkey, Holy Land is turning its locally made hummus brand into a charity powerhouse, the Anoka County Historical Society is hosting a pie social on Nov. 25, Cheese Underground gives Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin a glowing review, expert tasting notes on Summit’s Scottish […]
MoreBill Roehl describes “the worst fucking meal I have ever had at a restaurant, ever” at the Parkway Grille, a City Pages shout-out for upcoming food book events featuring Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl and our own Becca Dilley plus yours truly, a claim that fresh pumpkin makes a better pie (not what our test kitchen has […]
MoreAdam Platt, whose son has a life-threatening peanut allergy, tackles Chef Lenny Russo’s skeptical thoughts on the topic of restaurants’ responsibilities to know and disclose exactly what they serve. “We take full responsibility for our son’s allergy, but we live in terror of the day a restaurant misleads us about what’s in its food due […]
MoreLenny Russo makes an (idle? totally serious? half-serious?) threat to move Heartland to Minneapolis if St. Paul over-regulates food, Katie likes Volnay a lot less than we did (flagging the service as “flakey, unknowledgeable, and unprofessional”), the best story you’ll read all month about a stuffed artichoke, a Dutch apple pancake (these things are amazing) […]
MoreCrunchy ice cream sandwiches with pureed raisins(!), Adam Anderson (former chef at Lucia’s) is doing a weekly CSA recipe at Simple, Good, and Tasty, Lenny Russo cooks for kids (without dumbing it down), Hungry in SW discovers Mancini’s, and a great tip about pruning raspberry bushes.
MoreKatie watches (and photographs) an expert making Tom Yum Soup, Sharyn shoots some gorgeous vegan lemon cream cheese cupcakes and udon with tofu from Midori’s, the Homegrown Minneapolis initiative slowly and pluckily wends its way through the city’s bureaucracy, Lenny Russo of Heartland points out that there’s really no such thing as “cheap food,” and […]
MoreChef Lenny Russo worries on his Strib blog that the word “green,” in reference to environmental credentials, may have crossed over to the dark side. “First of all, there are so many charlatans out there jumping on the “green” band wagon that it gives those who are well intentioned a bad name and in many […]
MoreThe Southeast Minnesota Food Network presents a Local Flavors Tasting Sunday, June 21, 4–6pm at their distribution center on 55 E. Main St. in Elgin. Tickets $12 at the door, food by chefs such as Lenny Russo from Heartland in St. Paul and Anna Christoforides from Gardens of Salonica.
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