Food and Drink

Sure, they're tasty, but packaged snacks and meals can be packed with sugar, salt and a list of unpronounceable ingredients. So what are they doing to your health? Scientists are trying to find out.

Under the new rules taking effect in three years, labels will also have to warn drinkers of the risks to pregnancy, the beverage's calorie content and the number of grams of alcohol it contains.

Ask just about anyone to tell their personal story, and it’s likely that food will feature at some point. For Nigerian immigrant Uche Irogbu, fufu was a staple of his childhood, and now its a staple of his identity in the U.S.

MPR News guest host Nina Moini speaks with Tomme Beevas, the owner of Pimento Jamaican Kitchen, about food, politics and community spirit.

A small business owner and his partners have turned a former St. Paul strip club into a neighborhood grocery store. For years, the Lamplighter Lounge was the subject of many police calls for violent shootings — a couple of them fatal.

“Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club” is a family drama set in and around a supper club in the fictional northern Minnesota town of Bear Jaw. Author J. Ryan Stradal says it’s “the kind of book you can’t take the Minnesota out of in editing.”

Three breweries — two from Minneapolis and one from Duluth — received high honors from the international beer competition this year.

Minnesota's agriculture industry had a record-breaking year for exports last year. The state is a leading producer of many farm commodities like soybeans and corn, and exports to other countries are a key part of the ag economy. A complex web of connections moves those crops around the world.

A new cookbook offers kitchen techniques that reduce physical exertion. It aims to make home cooking accessible again for those with chronic back pain.

Organizers on Thursday unveiled plans for a new Taste of Minnesota festival to be held in downtown Minneapolis in July.