Minneapolis-St. Paul and Upper Midwest Food Magazine // Feasting on the Bounty of the Upper Midwest
The latest from Twitter: All week, @france44cheese’s St. Paul location is offering a discount to patrons with a receipt from the new @commongoodbooks next door, @RedStagNE’s excited for @YelpMSP’s week of cheap drinks across town, @troutcaviar crunches into Wisconsin’s De-lish-us potato chips, and @cupcakempls will be featured on Cupcake Wars this weekend.
MoreThe latest from Twitter: @SoleraChef gushes about his preview of Butcher and the Boar, @wphsu and @troutcaviar discuss what makes a great baguette, @TangledNoodle links to a goofy map of the online food world, and @MidtownGlobal plugs the Winter Market this Sunday.
MoreFour Daughters Vineyard & Winery near Grand Meadow, MN, held its grand opening this weekend (it makes its wine on site from cold-hardy grapes); the National Mustard Museum of Middleton, WI, gets a new lease on life; Cannon River Kitchens apparently makes a decent sweet cardamom bread mix; an excellent preview of some of 2012’s […]
MoreMotor Trend makes a big Midwestern beer run and stocks up on New Glarus and Dave’s BrewFarm product; a taste of Schell’s Snowstorm; Summit’s ninth Unchained beer will be Dunkel Weizen by brewer Eric Bloomquist; Trout Caviar looks back at 2011 and a surprising pumpkin seed harvest; the Well-Fed Guide to Life visits Pat’s Tap; […]
MoreTomorrow is the Wedge Co-op’s 3rd annual plant and garden sale, Bill Roehl buries Burger Jones in Burnsville with faint praise (“an incredibly expensive burger joint ripping people off is way better than an empty Blockbuster”), Cheese and Champagne writes up Prairie Breeze cheese from Iowa (here’s our own story), DeRusha presents five must-drink summer […]
MoreTrout Caviar read our blistering defense of Wisconsin cheese (vis-a-vis a glaring error in One Big Table by Molly O’Neill) and penned a fascinating essay about peasant vs. fine food… and the sometimes scant difference between the two.
MoreRaw milk from a Minnesota farm is linked to an E. coli breakout (also read our story on the raw milk controversy), Brett Laidlaw of the excellent blog Trout Caviar has a book coming out via the Minnesota Historical Society Press (who’ll also publish Stewart Woodman’s cookbook and Minnesota Lunch, created by six Heavy Table […]
MoreA review of the apple panino served at Cupcake, a look at Cedar Summit Creamery, the Strib flashes back to an old but interesting article on Latvian Easter eggs, an ode to Le Creuset on the always-excellent Trout Caviar, some more details on the Linden Hills Co-op move, insight into plans to expand Birchwood, and […]
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