Food and restaurants


Hoofing it for hunger: A retired mailman plans long-distance trek for 2014

By Roger Bergerson, Park Bugle

Gary Fitch (far right) and his neighbors and friends at his farewell party.

South Como’s favorite mailman has retired, but he’s not going to stop walking.

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It takes a Stadium Village

By John Bailey, GreenLineGems

I’ll confess: commercial districts near universities tend to not to be my first choice for a night out. That’s why I was pleased to learn about the Taste of Stadium Village event last Thursday night. It was a good excuse to get me out of my comfort zone. (And the $1 food and beverage choices at participating restaurants was a successful incentive.)

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Punch Pizza's MSPIFF deal ends Sunday

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

Pretty good deal, but it ends Sunday, April 28: bring your ticket stub from any Minneapolis - St. Paul International Film Festival movie to Punch's Neapolitan Pizza, (Northeast Minneapolis location only, 210 E. Hennepin), and you can get any of their classic pizzas for only $3.

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Reclassification puts St. Anthony Park Community Garden’s tax-exempt status in jeopardy

By Libby Donohue, Park Bugle

St. Anthony Park Community Garden

Kristen Murray

Thirty-two years ago a bevy of horticulture enthusiasts established the St.

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Delayed spring hurts growers, fresh produce customers

By Lee Egerstrom, Minnesota 2020

Amy Doeun, partner in Crazy Boy Farm near Rush City, and Mhonpaj Lee, organic farm manager of Mhonpaj’s Garden Farm in Oakdale, look at their still housed vegetable plants and know this April’s cold, snowy weather is hurting the best made plans for their farms, other local vegetable growers, and for all of their customers.

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Letter Carriers' annual food drive Saturday, May 11 seeks donations

By Staff, Minneapolis Labor Review

Place a bag of non-perishable food items by your mailbox the morning of Saturday, May 11 and your letter carrier will pick it up for donation to local emergency foodshelves.

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Hot meals program relies on about 500 volunteers

By Gail Olson, Northeaster

Eve Frank coordinates the Columbia Heights-based Meals on Wheels Hot Meals for Shut-Ins program. People volunteer through their churches, and some student groups participate.
(Photo by Gail Olson)

Eve Frank, Meals on Wheels coordinator, tells the story of an older client who fell down at home in the early morning hours. The client later told her daughter, “I tried to be as calm as I could, because I knew that my Meals on Wheels volunteer was coming.”

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David Cargo on building portable, stack-brick wood-fired ovens

By Sylvia Burgos, From the Bronx to the Barn

I bake two to four loaves of hearth bread every weekend. Not a bad thing if you've got a family of six, but there are just the two of us and, needless to say, lots of bread is gifted to friends.

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Lutong Mekeni: Filipino cuisine comes to St. Paul's University Avenue

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

You can view the menu before you visit Lutong Mekeni, the new Filipino storefront at 789 University Avenue West in St. Paul, by first checking out the restaurant's Facebook page, but unless you speak Tagalog, it probably won't do you a lot of good.

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Progress on FROG waste reduction front - Grand Avenue

By Staff, Summit Hill Association

In 2012, Brahim Hadj‐Moussa (Hadj), owner of The Barbary Fig at 720 Grand Avenue accepted the offer made by MN Waste Wise for waste and recycling evaluation assistance. Waste Wise offered the service free of charge to Grand Avenue businesses in both 2011 and 2012 under a contract with Ramsey County which is a collaborative member of F.R.O.G. (For Recycling on Grand). FROG is a collaboration of the Summit Hill Association, Grand Avenue Business Association, Macalester Groveland Community Council, Ramsey County and the City of St. Paul.

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