Appetites®

Every week, we bring you local and regional food and drink news, trends, reviews, flavors, recipes and advice. Appetites airs every Wednesday on MPR News' All Things Considered with host Tom Crann.

January 4, 2017 4:02 PM

Appetites: A beginner's guide to East African food

City Pages food writer Mecca Bos has noticed a rise in East African restaurants cropping up around the metro. She joined All Things Considered host Tom Crann to offer newcomers a guide to the various food styles and offered some restaurant picks, too.

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December 28, 2016 3:32 PM

Appetites: The future of farm-to-table

Experts at both ends of farm-to-table dining discuss the food movement's future.

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December 21, 2016 3:59 PM

Appetites: How some eateries are dealing with big expenses

The costs are steep to build a kitchen and dining room, and that's pushing restaurants to innovate.

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December 14, 2016 6:22 PM

Appetites: What's in a good bottle of wine?

The wine world can be daunting, but one expert offered his tips for how to navigate it.

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December 7, 2016 4:56 PM

Appetites: Why a top chef is leaving his restaurants

Chef Landon Schoenefeld is a major name in the Twin Cities food world. So when said he was leaving his restaurants Nighthawks and Birdie, it was news.

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November 30, 2016 3:39 PM

Appetites: Ready or not, here's another feast

After last week, you not be prepared for it, but there is a big two-day feast going on in Rochester.

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November 23, 2016 2:56 PM

Appetites: Potato tips from a cook who's obsessed with them

Raghavan Iyer says he has a life-long "addiction" to potatoes, and he has no desire for "recovery." That inspired his new book, which he calls a celebration of potatoes.

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November 16, 2016 4:18 PM

Appetites: A former Brooklyn foodie revels in Grand Forks farm life

Molly Yeh is a Julliard-trained musician from Chicago. What happens when she meets Nick, a trombonist with North Dakota roots?

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November 2, 2016 3:39 PM

Appetites: Eating your way down the Green Line, Part II

Earlier this year, a team of two writers, a photographer and an illustrator set out to document 75 independent restaurants along the path of the Green Line light rail system.

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