Local food mega-site the Heavy Table recently stirred up controversy by deeming, after conducting a metro-wide tasting, the Bruegger’s bagel to be the best bagel in the Twin Cities. To have a giant national chain beat out all the local options was understandably upsetting to the many people whose culinary ethos is built around eating […]
7 comments | Bagels, Controversy, Fermentation, Overnight, Peter Reinhart, Twin Cities
A marathon doesn’t begin at the starting line. It begins with dinner the night before… a starter, and a strong finish with carbo-loading-nara and grocery-freezer garlic bread: The morning of the marathon, at the recommendation of Ed Kohler of “The Deets,” I dropped Tom in downtown Minneapolis and headed to the Rose Garden at Lake […]
The Heavy Table has a great post today which combines all of the secrets from yesterday’s live tweets (follow @heavytable to keep in the loop) with photos to help your imagination along. For those of you who can’t make it, this post will give you a picture of the best-of eats on day one of the fair. If […]
3 comments | Beer, Cider Freeze, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, Stanly's Sugarbush Maple, Summit, The Heavy Table, Twin Cities
I just got a new bike. I am enjoying riding all over Minneapolis. I’m enjoying it so much I even folded up the bike to take it home to Michigan for a ride or two. Related to that enthusiasm, I’ve thinking about purchasing one of the many bicycle related prints of Adam Turman, a Minneapolis […]
1 comment | Adam Turman, Art Prints, Bicycles, Bikes, Minneapolis, screenprint, Twin Cities