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Food and Drink

Appetites: Roadside food gems for your Thanksgiving travels

Appetites: Roadside food gems for your Thanksgiving travels

Many of us will be covering long stretches of bleak Midwestern terrain this Thanksgiving without anything but fast food to eat. Luckily, the creators of the Heavy Table website share their best bets for North Coast road food.
by Tom Crann

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Top 8 facts about Minnesota's brewing history

Top 8 facts about Minnesota's brewing history

During the drought before the beer boom it could have been easy to forget that brewing has long been an important presence in the state.

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Does bacon really make everything better?

You'd have to be living under a rock to miss the signs of our cultural obsession with bacon. There are bacon Band-Aids, bacon tattoos, bacon sundaes, bacon-infused cocktails and even babies wrapped in bacon costumes, just in time for Halloween. But is all this devotion to fatty pig flesh merited? Does bacon truly make everything better, as some cookbooks have boldly declared?

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Appetites: Amy Thielen brings a national audience to the 'Midwestern Table'

Appetites: Amy Thielen brings a national audience to the 'Midwestern Table'

Chef Amy Thielen, author of the cookbook "The New Midwestern Table" and host of the new Food Network show "Heartland Table," is part of the movement bringing Midwestern food into the national spotlight.
by Tom Crann

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Birch syrup on those pancakes?

Americans have a longstanding love affair with maple syrup. According to the USDA, production of the sticky stuff in the United States totaled 3.25 million gallons this year. However, it isn't the only tree syrup that's available to drizzle on your short stack or sweeten your latte. The Aunt Jemima alternatives vary, depending on the types of trees there are in a region. There's Kahiltna birch syrup made in Alaska, blue spruce pine syrup from Utah and Georgian black walnut syrup.

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