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Yes, I let a City Pages reporter spend the night in my home. More accurately, my wife let a City Pages reporter spend the night in my home. But no, Jesse Marx was not in my bathroom observing me as I brush my teeth with jasmine-mint flavored toothpaste. It's hard to...
There's something intimidating about tea. It sounds really stuffy, like you need to make a bunch of finger sandwiches and crumpets and hang out with the Queen. But I had a tea experience that blew my mind today. I met David and Lily Duckler, the 26-year-old owners of...
This week, I'm one of the judges at Iron Fork, the cooking and cocktail competition put on by City Pages. The chefs get a secret ingredient, and off they go. Hopefully it's not disgusting. In advance of the competition, reporter Jesse Marx took me to lunch at...
I admit it. I'm a coffee nerd. It's the logical progression: if you love food, love craft cocktails, love microbrewed beer, you'll probably start loving small batch coffee. And if you think you're a nerd or a geek about wine, or cocktails, or beer: you've got nothing...
As a suburbanite, finding family-friendly, family-owned, scratch-cooking kitchens isn't easy. So Friday night when I was the emcee of the Robbinsdale Cooper marching band fundraising concert (sorry for partying, people!), I asked on Twitter if anyone had any...
The crust is great, the slices are big, but my favorite things at Hello Pizza near 44th & France in Minneapolis aren't of the pizza variety. It's a salad and a meatball sandwich. The smokey greens salad ($7.50) is big enough for four people to share, or for one...
These are the salad days. But many Minneapolis Public Schools don't have salad bars. You can help, though. Read more at my Minnesota Monthly blog:...