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.

March 25, 2015 2:00 PM

Appetites: How to dine for $10 at 'essential' Twin Cities restaurants

Can you eat reasonably at some of Minnesota's iconic restaurants? City Pages writer Mecca Bos discovered that the answer is yes -- if you choose carefully.

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March 18, 2015 2:30 PM

Appetites: Eat like a real Viking with the Nordic diet

For people trying to eat healthy, a lot of tricks have come and gone: low carbs, low fat, the Paleo diet, etc. Now we have the Nordic diet.

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March 11, 2015 2:00 PM

Appetites: St. Patrick's Day feasts beyond corned beef and cabbage

St. Patrick's Day is next week. If corned beef isn't your thing, cookbook author Beth Dooley has some other suggestions for the holiday feast.

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March 4, 2015 5:31 PM

Appetites: Hmong cuisine, 'the ultimate fusion food'

Pakou Hang, co-founder and executive director of the Hmong American Farmers Association, shares five things you might not have known about Hmong food and farming in Minnesota.

by Steven John

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February 25, 2015 2:00 PM

Appetites: A foodie's 40 best local eats

Rachel Hutton, editor of Minnesota Monthly magazine, has created a "culinary canon" of essential local eats.

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February 18, 2015 1:00 PM

Appetites: Making homemade lunch meat easy

Amy Thielen, author of "The New Midwestern Table" and host of "Heartland Table" on the Food Network, makes the case for making your own lunch meat.

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February 11, 2015 3:45 PM

Appetites: Global competition, local flavor

Gavin Kaysen, executive chef and owner of the Spoon and Stable Restaurant in Minneapolis, shares firsthand insights about the world's most prestigious cooking competition, the Bocuse d'Or.

by Tom Crann

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February 4, 2015 1:30 PM

Appetites: 6 (firsthand) morsels about Cuban food

Beth Dooley, author of "Minnesota's Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook," recently returned from a weeklong trip to Cuba. She shares a few observations and a recipe for black bean soup.

by Tom Crann

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January 28, 2015 1:00 PM

Appetites: Crafting spirits in Minnesota

The mantra "eat local" appears to be shifting toward beverages. Here's a look at the craft cocktail phenomenon.

by Tom Crann

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January 21, 2015 12:05 PM

Appetites: Meet 10 heritage grains

Beth Dooley, author of "Minnesota's Bounty: The Farmers' Market Cookbook," takes the mystery out of cooking with whole grains.

by Tom Crann

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