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St. Paul says it’s serious about local food. “The most livable city in America” recently debuted a new website to highlight its effort to connect local food producers with consumers and inform consumers how they too can become producers.
I recently found myself at a gathering of artistic luminaries in Minneapolis. (I was not one of them.) Someone posed a question to the group: Is New York still the cultural capital of the United States? A lot of presupposition went into that question, but the participants answered thoughtfully and judiciously. Some claimed that Minnesota was practically just as pretty darn good a cultural capital as New York City, darn it. Continue Reading
UPDATED 4/5/2012 (see note at end of article) – Urban farming and community gardening, once thought of as passing fads, have now become a large national movement addressing the health and vitality
Minnesota Foodshare Month kicked off March 1, with the state’s biggest annual food drive to stock about 300 food shelves from Ada to Zumbrota.
Half of all the food distributed through food shelves comes in through this food drive, according to Governor Mark Dayton’s Foodshare Month proclamation, and food shelf use in Minnesota is at a historic high level. While Minnesota’s unemployment rate continues to drop and the economy improves, plenty of hungry people still need a hand, especially children and seniors. Hunger Solutions reports that 36 percent of metro area food shelf visitors have a working adult in the family. Continue Reading
The Angry Catfish Bicycle and Coffee Bar at 4208 28th Ave. S. will celebrate its third anniversary from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 3.
During our recent trip to the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica and while staying at the Hilton Papagayo resort I had one of the best Dorado with a light butter caper sauce. It was served with small vegetables in a brochette style. Absolutely delicious. The name of the restaurant was Pacific Club. The Dorado is a local fish and I certainly recommend you try it if you travel in this part of the world.Free Speech ZoneThe Free Speech Zone offers a space for contributions from readers, without editing by the TC Daily Planet. Continue Reading
Minneapolis’ Phillips neighborhood activists, urban farmers and organization representatives packed the Waite House meeting room February 2 for the second Phillips Food Justice Table.
The abbreviation “Ph.D.” stands for philosophiae doctor, or “Doctor of Philosophy.” If a person has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in philosophy, then, that person must be quite philosophical, indeed. And what would someone so philosophically inclined do for a living? Become a restaurant critic, media mogul, and man-about-town, of course. Exempli gratia: TC Daily Planet founder Jeremy Iggers. Continue Reading
There’s no denying that the locavore movement is alive and kicking in the Twin Cities. Minnesota-harvested wild rice? A delicacy. Rainbow kale grown in your backyard raised-bed vegetable garden? Even better. Wild hen-of-the-woods mushrooms you noticed while walking the dog? Just be sure you properly ID them before feasting. But why should people have all the fun?
Unlike Portland, New York, San Francisco, Boston, and all the other smart-ass restaurant cities that look down their noses at Minneapolis-St. Paul, or at least we imagine they do, because we love to revel in our beleaguered inferiority complexes, Seattle doesn’t usually lord it over Minnesota. A recent visit there, however, has got me worried that Seattle is so superior in its foodie accomplishments that it can’t even be bothered to condescend. Continue Reading