Food and restaurants
Meet the authors of "Jewish Cooking Bootcamp"
If you've ever thought, "Oh God, how am I going to do this?" about entertaining for the holidays - any holiday at all - there's a new cookbook you might be interested in: MORE »
Meals on Wheels packs Blizzard Boxes in Minneapolis
"I look down this line at the folks all doing this and I just think it's so cool," said Southeast and Northeast Meals on Wheels volunteer Dawn Malcolm. "Some of our clients, if you don't bring them a meal, they don't eat that day." MORE »
Green-gloved trash-sifter
When lunch is a slice of pizza and a carton of chocolate milk, sorting the trash is easy: pizza crust, milk carton and napkin in the green organics bin, Styrofoam tray in the trash. A brown bag lunch brought from home is more complex. "Could you please empty that?" I ask. Wordlessly, the student shakes baggies, a granola bar wrapper and an empty chip bag into the red trash bin. She looks at me, holding up the paper bag. "Organics," I say, pointing to the green bin. "Food and paper go in here to make compost." MORE »
Java Train: A Hidden Gem in Como Park
I suppose that if I lived in St. Paul instead of Minneapolis, I wouldn't think of Pascal Street as being the middle of nowhere, but stumbling across the Java Train in the Como Park neighborhood was all the more pleasurable for being unexpected.MORE »
Fine dining to-go
"It was one of those rainy nights when Rachel and I were having some beers at the bar. Bicycle delivery came up somehow and we both decided it would be a great idea." Jean-Paul Beauliau, employee of Chaing Mai Tai, begins his story. "Both of us are bike people and bike all winter. We thought it would be great to deliver a good quality meal to people with bikes." Rachel Dow passed away January 12, 2008. The bike delivery idea faded. MORE »
Supenn Harrison teaches that life, like cooking, is best when done in harmony and balance
Many people are aware of the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet but how many have considered the healthy aspects of the Thai diet?
The authentic Thai diet goes hand-in-hand with a spiritual lifestyle, according to restaurateur Supenn Harrison. To the Thai, diet and lifestyle are almost inseparable; both strive for balance and harmony.MORE »
Is there no end to Merle Larson's kitchen tyranny?
As loyal readers know, Central Minnesota's DFLers have struggled for years to remove the pepper-fisted hand of Merle Larson from its grip on the Meeker County DFL Chili championship. They succeeded one year--when U.S. Representative Collin Peterson served as a judge and selected the mildest chili ever made.MORE »
Junk-food tax: beneficial, or big brother?
Taxes seem like a common-enough obligation that all of us have to deal with. But tax on junk food?
This relatively-new idea may seem like common sense; after all, the obesity epidemic in our society is nothing new. Others beg to differ, claiming it is the government going too far. Who defines what junk food is, anyway, and how much tax does each item come with?
MORE »Goose Lake Farm and Winery celebrates fall harvest
Ginger, one of the farm's resident dogs, proudly presents a stick - wagging her tail wildly. A rooster crows. Peacocks strut the grounds. And mere yards away people are clinking wine glasses and sharing laughter. Children are huddled together, coloring in books on a bench as their parents mill through the front part of the cottage retail area, where public tastings are also held. MORE »
A delicious cause for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is coming soon--but coming even sooner is an event that can provide cause for thankfulness among several local nonprofits: the Taste of Thanksgiving, sponsored by the St. Joseph Workers.MORE »
