Food and Drink

Minnesota's booze business is aging well
Minnesota has always had grapes and grain. Now distilleries and wineries are putting those crops to use in interesting ways. Angela Davis led a conversation about the state’s growing wine and spirits industries.
Gluten-free options are increasing at the State Fair — but be cautious
For people who have celiac disease or other forms of gluten intolerance, "food on a stick" usually means food battered with flour — which is off-limits. But increasingly, Minnesota State Fair vendors are offering gluten-free options.
Cideries, breweries tap into Duluth’s expanding music scene
In the past six years, there has been a boom of breweries and cideries opening up in the city. Seven new taprooms have sprung up in that time, and as the numbers have grown, so has the local music scene.
Appetites: Bringing the heat of wood fire cooking
Irons in the Fire describes themselves as a “wood fire scratch kitchen.” The Minneapolis-based catering company creates custom meals throughout Minnesota, and now into Wisconsin and Iowa.
Study: Sugar ruins teeth, rules the world
The authors of a new study say dental health is especially bad in low- and middle-income countries — and that Big Sugar works to make sure soda and candy aren't targeted as cavity culprits.
Our taste for turtle soup nearly wiped out terrapins. Then prohibition saved them
By the turn of the 20th century, America's love affair with diamondback terrapin soup — a subsistence food turned gourmet fare — had left the turtle's population teetering. Booze ban to the rescue.