Category: Food and Drink

  • Broders 25

    Mondays tend to be planning days, right? Well I just want y’all to get this one on your radar…Next week marks Broders’ 25th Anniversary, and they’re doing it up. Sunday kicks it off with a multi-course wine dinner. Sign up NOW as the dinner benefits the Slow Food MN Educational Fund and space will surely…

  • Echoes of the Empire

    I shall spend a lot of this summer reading Polybius. The rise and fall of empires is in the air, and Polybius is the most coherent historian of the rise of Rome—not least because he was a Greek and smart. When Polybius describes how the Roman general Titus Flaminius accomplished his mission in the Second…

  • Plains Tasty

    It’s dusk, and there’s an unmistakable whiff of charcoal in the air. It’s the sign of the outdoor cooking season, and is as eagerly awaited as the return of the red-winged blackbirds to the tree by my driveway. I look at my own shining, gray monster on the deck and I start thinking of the…

  • B Happy, B Pudding

    ramps, my dears, ramps! It looks like a nice weekend for a drive, no? Choose wisely and head down to the historic LeDuc Mansion in Hastings for a little food festival sponsored by the Northern Heartland Food and Wine Learning Center. Check out wine and cheese pairings with Nan Bailly of Alexis Bailly Vineyards and…

  • The Path

    pimp your Snickers Maybe I’ll be a food stylist. There’s clearly a mastery to that. Maybe I’ll open a giant snack store. Don’t want to be a sushi platter…but I might be a wonton origamist. Somehow, I have to find a gig that let’s me mmmmmmmmm my way around the world… For now, maybe I’ll…

  • Alien Indeed

    where can a brother get some ribs? Sunday ended up with a rainy jaunt to the Albertville Outlets. With four kids to clothe in cargo shorts and ridiculously expensive paper-thin tees, I need all the break I can get, so northward we trip. I’m not a crowd-shopper, I reach my patience limit quickly. Needless to…