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Congressional Hot Dish and Morning Roundup

Sen. Franken and Rep. Cravaack split the MN Congressional delegation hot dish honors (their respective recipes are here and here), thoughts on Restaurant Week at Saffron, labels from Borealis Fermentery (a Belgian-style brewery near Duluth), there’s a Cooking With Surly website [via MNBeer], Rick heralds the upcoming JJ’s Coffee + Wine Bistro in Uptown and […]

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2011’s Food in Review and Morning Roundup

Rick looks back at his favorite meals of the year (featuring: In Season, Masu, Sopranos) and Mecca does the same (Heidi’s, Marvel Bar, Tilia), Minneapolis Public Schools hires Taher vet Bertrand Weber for the position of director of nutrition services, Al McCarty really dislikes the Stout of Morning Destruction from Staple Mills Brewing Company, apparently […]

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Porky’s Withdrawal and Morning Roundup

Republicans in the legislature are fighting passionately to “water down Minnesota’s wild rice pollution rules,” writes the Strib, the as-of-yet theoretical Steel Toe Brewing has turned to Kickstarter for support, a Bill Ward look at “beer geeks” featuring a glossary, a story on an 11th-hour bid to save Porky’s drive-in features my 2011 Comment of […]

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July 13 Tweet Rodeo

Nothing like cold, hard data to excite an economics major like myself about a business chain… @StephMarch points to an article about Darden Restaurants’ (of Olive Garden and Red Lobster fame) brand management strategies, @TCFoodies samples the tubesteaks, truffled chicken sausage, and gelato outside @SurdyksLiquor, @CafeMaude announces a second Istanbul Night to meet high demand […]

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