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Food and Drink

Conifer cuisine: Don't toss your Christmas tree yet! Here's how you can cook with it

Conifer cuisine: Don't toss your Christmas tree yet! Here's how you can cook with it

If you haven't taken down your Christmas tree yet, no worries. We don't judge. Baker and cook Julia Georgallis has suggestions for recipes that can incorporate your holiday tree.
by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

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Indigenous organizations collaborate to feed their most vulnerable

Indigenous organizations collaborate to feed their most vulnerable

Three Indigenous groups collaborated to feed traditional meals to their most vulnerable community members over the holidays. Volunteers prepped, cooked, packaged and delivered over 400 meals on Christmas Eve. The effort comes as 1 in 8 Minnesotans face food insecurity during the pandemic.
by Kathryn Styer Martinez

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The best comfort food for an uncomfortable year

The best comfort food for an uncomfortable year

Gathering with friends and family this year has been limited to time outdoors or in online meetings, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t finding creative ways to bond over food. One chef tells us about the dishes that keep her connected to the community in a time of isolation.
by Kerri Miller and Marcheta Fornoff

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Appetites: Share the richness of holiday breads

Appetites: Share the richness of holiday breads

Has this been the year you refined your baking skills? If the pandemic has meant you've been perfecting your bread making, cookbook author Beth Dooley is back with us with some ideas for holiday breads.
by Tom Crann and Kyle Shiely

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Author explores the taste of Minnesota in new book

Author explores the taste of Minnesota in new book

What defines traditional Minnesota cooking? Author Patrice M. Johnson says it’s informed by the seasons, and shaped by Scandinavian heritage. But that’s far from the whole picture. Her new book is called “Land of 10,000 Plates: Stories and recipes from Minnesota.”
by Tom Crann

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A garden is the frontline in the fight against racial inequality and disease

A garden is the frontline in the fight against racial inequality and disease

North Minneapolis's mostly minority community lost its only grocery store this summer. It's a neighborhood grappling with heart disease, obesity and COVID-19. A garden may help.
by Yuki Noguchi

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