Petite women in a small shop on a quaint stretch of Marshall Avenue are producing miniature delicacies: macarons the size of 50-cent pieces, and cupcakes, some small enough to fit
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Angry partners. Broke investors. A flawed business plan. But the former R. Norman and 7 Sushi survived. Now David Koch is taking the restaurant in a new direction.
Cruciferous vegetables are all the rage. Check the menus: The Sample Room in Northeast Minneapolis serves a terrific roasted vegetable salad with grilled Brussels sprouts over spinach; Café Lurcat offers
It’s not that you need help. Of course you don’t. But here it is, the month of hearts and love and romance. You’ve got a special someone in mind, and
There are few clear advantages to living in a place where winter begins on October 10th. But here’s one: Like pub owners on the damp English moors and Celtic bluffs,
It’s gotten harder and harder to sit down and enjoy a nice, juicy venison steak. Used to be you bought a license, threw on blaze orange, and tromped into the
Twice, my friend Lisa has tried to teach me to make risotto. The first time, I drank a glass of wine while watching her stir things into a pot. This
Frog legs are, for me, like veal or endangered bluefin tuna. First, I harbor a weird affection for frogs that I suspect goes back to Sesame Street. Second, I’ve become
To name a restaurant Saffron is to conjure associations of the rare and precious. Like natural pearls and golden caviar, saffron is expensive—about $150 an ounce. But the name also
About tequila, I have good news and I have bad. The good news is that tequila sales are growing faster than those of any other spirit, and the Twin Cities
Some vegetables are more fashionable than others. Who can say why? Ramps got rock-star attention when they started appearing on Twin Cities menus several years ago, heralded by servers as
Who’s profiting from this recession, you ask? The usual suspects: pawnbrokers, debt collectors, an entire gold-mining town in Nevada. But also Chris Eriksson, a 39-year-old financial advisor with Merrill Lynch
Amarone is one of the winemaking world’s most wonderful contradictions. An Italian wine made of dried grapes from the Valpolicella production zone—mostly Corvino with smaller percentages of Rondinella and Molinara—it
Most people, if they eat wasabi, mix a little with soy sauce and dip their sushi in it. Others (I am one) eat wasabi plain, slathering it on their tuna