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The Secret Atlas of North Coast Food
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Want to support a great culinary project? Take a look at our freshly launched Kickstarter project: The Secret Atlas of North Coast Food.
The Secret Atlas of North Coast Food is a book that will be created, edited, and illustrated by members of the Heavy Table team in conjunction with the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul design and cartography community.
The book will tell the stories of Upper Midwestern food and drink from all manner of perspectives; we’ll chart out some of the late, great “ghost restaurants” of the Twin Cities that have vanished but linger on as influences; we’ll explore meat markets up and down the Mississippi; we’ll track down pop culture and literature connections to local eateries, and far, far more.
We would love your help in publishing our ambitious new book!
Our 8th North Coast Nosh, the event we put on to celebrate and show off the local food scene, was a raging success! People from all over the region came to the Swedish American Institute to sample the latest and greatest of the Upper Midwest’s food and libations.
In today’s feature, Alyssa Vance gives us the rundown on how the night went.
Congrats, Minnesota!
In related news, the wonderful ladies at Minneapolis’s Fabulous Catering are running a 10%-off same-sex wedding special all year to celebrate our big win!
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Mugshot Monday - “Homemade Wiener Dog” coffee mug with Morning Glory Breakfast Blend at Peace Coffee Shop
This homemade Wiener Dog coffee mug is pretty dang cool. No artist initials. Not a trace as to who made this great coffee mug. Here’s the entire design.
Some of the gorgeous cookies you’ll find at St. Paul’s new Italian bakery, Pasticceria Cossetta.
Wisconsin Bill Would Treat Organic Milk, Sharp Cheddar, Brown Eggs as "Junk Food"
Wisconsin ranks 44th in the nation for new job creation. Rather than rolling up their sleeves and finding new and innovative ways to help create jobs, the Wisconsin legislature is spending its time telling people needing food assistance what they should be eating. AB 110, which will be up for a vote in the Assembly on Tuesday, May 7, is geared toward limiting “the amount of food stamp benefits that could be spent on junk food.” But some of the fine print of the bill, bizarrely, would ban people from choosing more healthy and less expensive options for their families. The bill is one of many being considered that are unduly punitive of the poor.
Keeping our eyes on this piece of legislation.
“The recent birth of my son at Fairview Southdale Hospital put my wife and me into the thick of it. There we were, on the heels of a life-changing, exhilarating, thoroughly exhausting jumble of circumstances, more or less stuck in a hotel room that played host to a revolving cavalcade of nurses, doctors, friends, and relatives — plus the odd tout for the resident infant photography service.
And although we’d packed some utilitarian snacks and understood our rights (and my ability) to sally forth into the city to import our food, we were collectively exhausted enough after the whole “PUSH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10″ experience and disoriented enough by the ongoing battery of tests, paperwork, and adventures in breastfeeding to go to the lowest common denominator of food: calling room service and ordering hospital food.
What a surprisingly good idea.
As a two-word expression, “hospital food” ranks right up there with “eel mucus,” “dry socket,” and “soy bacon” on the list of expressions least likely to stimulate the appetite. But the approach at Fairview was — and I say this as thoroughly non-compensated real-life customer — profoundly appropriate to the circumstances.
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Our editor-in-chief, Jim Norton, not only welcomed his new baby boy into the world last week: he wrote a funny and poignant review of the hospital food that he and his wife (and HT photog) Becca Dilley had during their birthstravaganza.
And of course, happy birthday, Josiah! You’re gonna be one well-fed baby.
