Food and Drink

November 23, 2011 3:37 PM

Dining with Dara: What to drink with your Thanksgiving dinner

Even the traditional Thanksgiving meal has a variety of flavors -- savory, sweet, starchy, sage. Add a twist or two, and it can be a challenge to pick the right beverages to serve with the meal. Food critic Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl from Minnesota Monthly has some suggestions to pair with all your holiday favorites.

by Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl

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November 17, 2011 3:59 PM

Dining with Dara: The best Thanksgiving to-go pies in Minn.

Are you making your own pie this year for Thanksgiving dinner, or getting yours from a bakery? Minnesota Monthly food critic Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl has compiled her list of the best pies to go in Minnesota, from Cold Spring to Duluth to Rochester, and from plain old apple to Surly beer-chocolate-pecan.

by Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl

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November 10, 2011 4:53 PM

Dining with Dara: Best new Twin Cities restaurants

This has been a good year for restaurants in the Twin Cities. Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl from Minnesota Monthly says that 2011 was surprisingly delicious. She writes about the Best New Restaurants for the current issue of the magazine, and joins MPR's Tom Crann to talk about her picks.

by Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl

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November 9, 2011 9:25 AM

Small Mpls farmers markets require more vendors to be farmers

A new city ordinance says at least 60 percent of the vendors at most farmers markets have to be food growers.

by Elizabeth Dunbar

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November 3, 2011 4:00 PM

Dining with Dara: Lake Superior herring

Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, the food writer for Minnesota Monthly, has been eating a lot of herring lately. She loves the fish we call lake herring, which is not "real" herring.

by Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl

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October 19, 2011 3:10 PM

Dining with Dara -- Best eating in the Twin Cities

Food writer Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl joins MPR's Tom Crann this week to talk about some of the best eating in the Twin Cities, as chosen in the latest issue of Minnesota Monthly magazine.

by Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl

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October 10, 2011 4:03 PM

Minn. foie gras producer challenges notion that process is cruel

There are only a handful of farms in the country that produce foie gras, and one is located in southeastern Minnesota. Fois gras -- or fattened duck liver -- is a delicacy. It's also the source of a long-running debate over whether the treatment of the ducks can be considered cruel.

by Elizabeth Baier

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October 6, 2011 4:13 PM

Dining With Dara: Do you eat out too much?

There's something terribly wrong with you -- or with food trend journalism. Use this handy dandy quiz to find out which is the case.

by Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl

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September 22, 2011 2:42 PM

Dining with Dara: Amazing Camembert made in Minnesota

It once was that if you wanted a rich, soft cheese, you had to get a Brie from France. Anything else paled in comparison. But that's no longer true. Cheesemakers in our region have been making some impressive efforts, according to food writer Dara Moskowtiz Grumdahl from Minnesota Monthly. She calls it "one of the most astonishing turns in Minnesota food culture."

by Dara Moskowitz-Grumdahl