Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
PastureLand Co-op fights to survive, Lift Bridge Brewing suspends six-pack bottle sales (due to a lack of capacity at Cold Spring Brewing), a look at the Waite Park neighborhood of Minneapolis featuring Ready Meats, how the temporary loss of MillerCoors beers could also threaten local craft beers, craft beers-a-plenty at Belgian independence week celebrations, a […]
MoreLousy news for local cheese and butter lovers: PastureLand is on the ropes. Contextual quote from Dara’s post about it: “‘Minnesota has just pissed away its history of small and medium-sized processing plants,’ sighed [CEO Steve] Young-Burns. ‘If we were in Wisconsin there would be people from the dairy board all over us trying to […]
More@AleJail and @CaribeBistro team up to host a beer dinner (tickets still available), @SweetsBakeshop plans their Minneapolis store’s grand opening, @Pastureland offers a $10 off coupon (if you buy 5 lbs of aged raw milk cheddar), @FultonBeer promotes tomorrow’s MN Pint Bill Senate hearing, and @TheMNProject holds a fruit tree class next week.
MoreAndy Sturdevant exhorts us to support the Donut Cooperative’s Kickstarter campaign, Zimmern interviews Andrew Miller of Cafe Imports (he drinks coffee at Dunn Bros, Kopplin’s, Black Sheep Coffee Cafe, and Rustica), Rachel reviews First Avenue’s Depot and Twisted Fork (here’s our review of Twisted Fork), another Furthermore barn party tonight in Spring Green, WI, Heartland’s […]
MoreMecca gives Ringo a hearty thumbs down (“None of it was very well executed or presented”), Kim Ode on madeleines (in print and video), a CSA provided by “Minnesota’s only Jewish organic farmer,” urbanfoodie strikes a thoughtfully cautious note vis-a-vis street food, Fair Food Fight looks at Pastureland Dairy Cooperative and the ongoing dairy pricing […]
MoreZimmern sings the praises of Brasa’s goat, tough words about the media conspiracy that brought down Whole Hog Heaven, high praise for Gyropolis in Bloomington, Cheese and Champagne samples some excellent Wisconsin blue cheeses from Seymour Dairy Crest and Roth Käse, South 12th asks why we can’t get high-falutin Scandinavian food around here (didn’t Aquavit […]
MoreThe details on Birchwood Cafe’s new locavore meat and cheese plate: Semi-aged Bucheron chevre from Montchevre-Betin, Belmont, WI, along with Castle Rock blue from Osseo, WI and Pastureland cheddar from Goodhue, MN. Coppa by Mike Phillips of Craftsman stars on the meat side of things.
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