Ben Pratt shares tales of food and family. Ever wonder what chefs at your favorite restaurants cook at home for the holidays? Ben Pratt, chef at the...
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These Twin Cities Chefs and Restaurants Are 2019 James Beard Award Semifinalists
The James Beard Awards are among the most prestigious prizes for chefs and restaurants in the United States. It’s common for a few Twin Cities names...
Urban Forage Winery & Cider House’s Unique Offerings Will Warm You Up This Winter
Pick up some of Urban Forage’s cider at Elevated. Among all the eminently drinkable goods at Elevated, there’s one that’s unique. Urban Forage...
Michael Twitty Serves Up Food History Lesson at Fort Snelling
Resident Kevin Maijala brings food historian Michael Twitty to Fort Snelling. Behind an exciting exhibit that took place this past July at Historic...
From Mahtomedi to Morocco, Family Gets Creative in the Kitchen
The Wolfson family cooks up American standards and Moroccan stew. Mahtomedi resident Lee Wolfson is a retired architect turned enthusiastic home...
The Battleground Café Is Not Your Typical Coffee Spot
The Battleground Café in Vadnais Heights offers café goodies and welcomes gamers to convene, play games and just have a good time. A cafe that not...
French-trained Personal Chef Greg Knothe Shares Favorite Recipes and Cooking Tips
Greg Knothe hasn’t always been a French-trained chef, but he’s always enjoyed making good food. In 2004, after working as a machinist for many...
Big Wood Brewery Offers a Tour of Their Space with the Folks Who Brew the Beer
Big Wood Brewery invites all intrigued by beer and the brewing process to tour their space with one of their brew-masters on the first Friday of the...
Sam Supunniam of Sam’s Thai Cuisine Shares Some of His Flavor secrets
When he first opened his restaurant 17 years ago, Sam Supunniam featured Chinese food rather than food from his native Thailand. “People weren’t...
Happy in a Cup or Cone
Hot summer days mean it’s time for ice cream. “It’s always been in the family.”—This is probably true for many more people than just Rick Johnstone,...
A Local Company Is Bringing a Somali Tradition into the Mainstream
Samosas, a popular appetizer in Indian cuisine, might be better-known than their Somali counterpart, sambusas. But both are versions of fried, flaky...
7 Vines Vineyard and Winery Produces Local Wine and Provides a Beautiful Event Venue
In the late 1980s, a special piece of Dellwood property caught real estate developer Ron Peltier’s eye. The 188-acre tract of land was originally...
It’s Time for Vadnais Heights’ Annual Ice Cream Social Music in the Park
A night of fun and food is ahead at Vadnais Heights’ Ice Cream Social, a tradition that has been going on for over 30 years. The social will be held...
Royal Nutrition Offers Healthy Drinks and Snacks, Fitness Classes and More
Mahtomedi’s Royal Nutrition, owned by Clayton Smith and Kat Chirhart, opened last August, and they are putting fun into nutrition and fitness. A big...
Kowalski’s Market Debuts Fun and Fresh Meal Kits
With high-quality ingredients right from the store and some of the prep work done, making dinner at home just got a lot easier. “We love the idea of...
Vegan East Bakery Whips Up Oodles of Deliciously Healthy Sweet Treats
In the early hours of the morning, as the color wheel in the sky turns from black to blue to orange to pink and the early birds begin to brew their...
Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice
Uptown Girl Cupcakes & Dessert has a new, sweet spot. With time, tolerance, diligence and flexibility, Melynda Harjes says anyone can make...
Owners of The Hideaway Speakeasy Spend the Winter Months Dreaming of Their Return to the Minnesota State Fair
It was Christmas week in 2016 when Bryan and Jennie Enloe received thrilling news—a Request for Proposal (RFP) letter from the Minnesota State Fair....
Meatloaf Nouveau
Carol Falkowski dishes on her cookbook and the new twist on the classic comfort food. Most people consider meatloaf a bad memory from their...
Ray Stobel: A Helping Heart
Ray Strobel uses his love of cooking to raise money for Ronald McDonald House Charities. Ray Strobel’s interest in cooking began when he started...
