Appetites®

You’ve done the grocery shopping and the fixings are ready to go for the big Thanksgiving meal. But what about after Thanksgiving? Beth Dooley has a few recipes you’ll want to check out.

For years, owners Annie and Ryan Balow built a loyal following through popups. Now, it seems to be paying off at their new downtown restaurant.

Beef jerky is sold practically everywhere. But a new product is hitting the shelves across the Twin Cities that adds a traditional African twist to the popular snack.

Tashia Hart's new book, “The Good Berry Cookbook,” highlights the history of wild rice in the Great Lakes region and features recipes from other Native American chefs that highlight the grain, including Marissa Lee's recipe for wild rice stuffed squash.

If you've been paying any attention to the Twin Cities food scene over the last few years, you know Yia Vang, the creative mastermind behind Union Hmong Kitchen. Not only has he been preparing to open a new space inside Graze food hall, he also recently celebrated becoming a US citizen after coming to the U.S. when he was four years old.

Lebanese-American cook and nutritionist Sara Farhat spent more than three years adapting her favorite family recipes from her childhood in Lebanon to create her first cookbook that she self-published and released last month.

The ginger squash and apple soup combines Dooley's favorite flavors of fall and is the perfect meal to warm you up on a cool autumn night.

The community bouja party at the Avon Hills Folk School outside Avon, Minn., happens every October on the second Saturday of the month. It gives visitors to the folk school the perfect opportunity to soak in the fall foliage while enjoying a perfect fall meal — a hot bowl of bouja soup.

More than 13,000 runners will take part in this weekend's Twin Cities Marathon and 10-mile race, but what do they need to be focused on this week when it comes to nutrition? You may have heard of carbo-loading — a meal one or two days before the race that's heavy on bread or pasta. But how does that benefit the runner?

Gretchen Prebix of Sweetland Orchard in Webster, Minn., joined MPR News host Tom Crann on this week’s episode of Appetites.