Food

Five Craft Beer Adventures Over Land and Sea

 

This may not have been a great idea after all. My legs are trembling and I’m grabbing the handle bars of my Lyft scooter for dear life. The scooter is careening violently from side to side as I rattle over the historic cobblestones leading to Indeed Brewing.

I got the idea while sipping beers with colleagues from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in Amsterdam. Every ten minutes or so, another troupe of cyclists clad in skin-tight club uniforms would peddle by, many stopping at our pub for refreshments. Sure, many of the cyclists were cut more like Kevin James than Lance Armstrong,...

The Delectable Adventures of the Minnesota Meat Trail  -- A Spotlight on Minnesota's Best Butcher Shops

“I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

There is something about hitting the open road that is liberating and I think fulfills our instinctive desire for discovery. As I pack my cooler, backpack and coordinate my GPS, I can feel it. While Lewis and Clark often sent 18 men out to stalk meat, mine will be a solitary expedition.

I will crisscross the state in search of Minnesota’s most celebrated and tradition-rich meat markets. From Miltona to Hugo, from Nicollet to Pierz,...

New Ice Cream Shop Opens in Northeast Minneapolis

With winter on its way out -- cue Minnesota snowfall -- I SAID, with winter on its way out, and spring actually meandering its way to the Minnesota landscape, it's time to start thinking about warm summer days and cold, tasty ice cream treats. Just in time for said summer days is Minnesota Nice Cream, an inventive ice cream shop that is unlike the Dairy Queens of the world. Minnesota Nice Cream began as a food truck beloved by Twin Cities residents for the interesting ice cream concoctions that came out of the mind of founder Katie Romanski. Now the ice cream shop has established roots in the Northeast Minneapolis...

Some of the Truth Behind Artificial Food Coloring

It has been said that in taking great risk, one can reap an even greater reward. Most would assume we would be discussing an investment in the stock exchange or a bet at the high-stakes table. However, I am referring to the investment we make into the lives of our children. Parenthood is one of the most rewarding roles one can hold, yet it encompasses all the great challenges in life. Today, parents are faced with countless decisions for their children. The simplistic days of white or wheat are long gone. We are now learning how to decipher mysterious ingredient labels that are comprised of shelf-life stabilizers, genetically modified ingredients and artificial food dyes (to...

'Leven or Less Lunch — Lou Nanne's Weekend Brunch: Great Deal, But Drink the Water

Author's Note: This is the first installment of a monthly column on interesting meals available for less than $11 in the Twin Cities metro. While you can get a cup of soup and house salad for that money just about anywhere, this column's focus will be non-chain establishments providing a more substantial meal at a reasonable price. On to the review...   Lou Nanne's opened in the Spring of last year, replacing the Romano's Macaroni Grill location off France in Edina (7651 France Ave S). I've been to Nanne's a few times in the evening since it opened, but this was my first visit during daylight hours — I stopped in on Saturday for the weekend brunch,...

The Proverbial Cheat Meal: What is it? How Does it Work? How Can it be Effective?

5126345115_a84e8af49c_o Cheating. Whether it’s in sport, relationships or life, the word itself almost always carries a negative, even hurtful, connotation. And when it comes to meeting your fitness goals, cheating — on your diet, your workouts, and your food journals — can feel like a betrayal to yourself. Why work so hard, if you are only going to undermine your efforts with a cookie, or two — or five? But what if cheating was actually somehow good for you? What if taking a break from discipline can actually help you in the long run? It might seem counterintuitive, but there is scientific evidence that relaxing the rules occasionally can improve...

Ten of the Craziest Restaurants to Visit in the World

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Thinking of a trip this summer? Possibly later this year? Let’s be honest, besides the thrill of traveling to a destination unknown (or known), kicking back and indulging in food and drinks is equally exciting. So to give people more of a push to get out there and explore what the world has to offer this summer, ten of the strangest and or craziest restaurants around the world have been collected to get an idea of what the hospitality world has to offer while travelers explore the world around them. Let's get started!  
Modern Toilet Restaurant: Taiwan

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Understanding Food Labels and Their Terminology

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Let’s say you are trying to shop healthier for your family. You head out to the store for your weekly shopping trip, determined to come home with some healthier alternatives to the items in your pantry. However, when you get to the store, you find a multitude of products with different labels. Trying to determine which may be the best one to try is not always that easy. Products don’t just yell out from the aisles, “I’m the healthiest one! Buy ME!” I have spent an awful lot of time reading labels and nutritional data. (Trust me: you would not want to go food shopping with me … ever, just ask my husband). Yet even...

Five Benefits From Better Nutrition

11712-close-up-of-a-woman-holding-a-red-apple-in-her-hand-pv I have found five (although there are many more) main reasons eating the right ratios and portions of food nutrients benefit you. Let's get started.
1. Overall Nutrition
Your body is like a car. It needs to be fueled in order to drive the distance you are expecting to travel. It is easy to understand that if you run out of gas, you will be walking rather than driving to your destination. By eating appropriate portions, along with implementing a balanced ratio of nutrients from each category of foods (protein, non-starchy...

Top 10 Selling Food Items at The State Fair

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The annual Great Minnesota Get Together is still a few weeks away, so you still have time to set aside calories in preparation for the 'Smorgasbord in St. Paul' that is the Minnesota State Fair. It has been announced there will be more than 50 new foods available to fair-goers this year. Overall, that means 500+ food choices at this year's Fair. Here are a few of the spanking new delicacies on which Minnesotans may soon choose to engorge themselves:

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