Minnesota State Fair info specialists know their stuff
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Minnesotans love the fair, some more than others. I admit to being one of those people who still go as much as I can each year.
New at the Minnesota State Fair: Cell phone history tour and “the most impressive new building on the fairground in decades”
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You have to give the Minnesota State Fair credit for keeping up with technology and social media. When the State Fair opened in 1854, the focus was on farming and agriculture. Now, you can hear recorded history naratives from your cell phone (or any land line), use your smart phone to locate QR codes, or brush up on State Fair trivia while you shuttle to the Fair’s gate.
Breakfast lollypop? Salad-on-a-stick? 21 new foods at Minnesota State Fair
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Breakfast lollypop? Salad-on-a-stick? Must be Minnesota State Fair time.
2011 State Fair announces free entertainment line-up
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It may be spring, but the Minnesota State Fair has announced 100 free acts fairgoers can see with their price of admission. The State Fair’s media department promises a diverse lineup of free entertainment at this year’s fair, scheduled August 25 through September 5. Highlighting the Leinie Lodge Bandshell Tonight! is the Minneapolis indie rock band Tapes n’ Tapes, performing on two evenings: Sept. 4-5. Continue Reading
Minnesota State Fair featured special Art Dolls exhibit
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“Art of the Doll” is an exhibit held at this year’s State Fair. Nineteen local doll artists had works on display, providing a variety of interpretations on the form. Dolls have always been a part of our culture. What separates the art doll from the mass-produced toy is what makes this art form so provocative.
Art dolls are a response to the conventional doll, in an art-for-art’s sake manner. These dolls are unique and not made for play. Continue Reading
Minnesota State Fair Champion horse rescued from slaughter
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“Heaven Can Wait,” or Buster as he is affectionately called, was two weeks away from, well, meeting heaven. In a kill pen on the east coast in 2006, the American Saddlebred horse was scheduled for slaughter.
Kris Brutoco of Manahan Stables in St. Francis, Minnesota was looking for a lesson horse to train. She received an urgent call from Saddlebred Rescue: “Can you adopt him?” Brutoco agreed to give a rescue horse a try. Continue Reading
Jew on a stick (a mid-Fair report)
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So Thursday marked the 8th day of the Great Minnesota Get Together and I wanted to share my experiences before the 2010 fair comes to an end on Labor Day. If you have already been out there by the time this posts, I’d love to hear your thoughts. If you haven’t yet gone, what are you waiting for? Continue Reading
Searching for vegan at the Minnesota State Fair
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Ah, the Minnesota State Fair. That yearly quest to explore all the ways your favorite heart-killers could be made even more unhealthy. As you walk along Judson Avenue, it’s hard to smell the cows, pigs, and myriad other farm animals defecating in the nearby barns. Instead, with each step you inhale lung-full after lung-full of grease-scented air, a powerful and—for some—intoxicating mix of aromas wafting from cheese curd stands, bratwurst carts, and purveyors of deep-fried candy bars-on-a-stick. It’s a cocktail that drives many a Minnesotan to binge on these rarities of the culinary world, and let’s be fair: when is the next time you’ll get to try deep-fried tater tot hotdish?
Uff-da! A personal journey through Minnesota State Fair food
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For most Minnesotans, the Minnesota State Fair means tradition. Who you go with, what day (or time of day, for that matter) you go, and what kind of activities you participate in (Counting mullets? Livestock judging? Trips to the Alpaca booth?) all become an annual ritual—one to savor for a few weeks, and then rehash amongst your friends again and again for the rest of the year. There is, however, one tradition that trumps all others: eating.
An omnivore’s Minnesota State Fair dilemma
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Born at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 26, Princess Kay Katie burst into the Minnesota State Fair’s Miracle of Birth Center amid a torrent of stunned onlookers, proud fanfare and bodily fluids. By the following Saturday, the 2010 State Fair’s esteemed First Calf had acquired a private stall, chipper attendant and personalized signage.Her week of fame, and the surrounding plethora of birth and baby animals throughout the center, mark a small and somewhat bittersweet annual comeback for farm animals like her, below. The event forces diners to put down their meatballs on a stick and look look face-to-face with their food sources, who generally go about their business of becoming our suppers in a deferential, non-threatening and largely unseen way.”That’s why people love this place,” said veterinarian and sheep farmer Holly Neaton from Watertown, Minn. “They just don’t grow up on farms anymore.” Continue Reading