Appetites®

Every week, we bring you local and regional food and drink news, trends, reviews, flavors, recipes and advice. Appetites airs every Wednesday on MPR News' All Things Considered.

Appetites: A local revolutionary
Lenny Russo has been at the forefront of the local food movement for a generation. His new cookbook collects his thinking and recipes in one place.
Appetites: Talking Minnesota food with a James Beard winner
Chef Raghavan Iyer joined Appetites to about the evolution in Minnesota's food culture since moving here in the 1980s and his award-winning video series.
Appetites: The Synergy Series
Chef Gavin Kaysen is asking four chefs to leave the big city and come to Minnesota for a night or two of cooking as part of his Synergy Series.
Appetites: City Pages' top spots to eat, drink
City Pages food writer Mecca Bos joined All Things Considered host Tom Crann to talk about some of the best restaurants, dishes, drinks and other highlights of the current Twin Cities food scene.
Appetites: Why you should add bison to your diet
Author Beth Dooley makes the case for bison: it's lean and low in calories.
Appetites: 3 'weird' wine recommendations
Growler Magazine senior editor John Garland suggests people expand their wine horizons to include places such as Bulgaria, Canada and Uruguay.
Appetites: Why leave L.A.?
Thomas Kim, co-owner and chef of The Rabbit Hole, had success with several restaurants in Los Angeles, but he moved to Minneapolis anyway. Why?
Appetites: The Blood and Sand cocktail
Now is the perfect time to enjoy this underrated seasonal cocktail.
Appetites: 'Beer 2.0'
Now that the basic beer scene in the Twin Cities is strongly built and well-established, a new level of beers with advanced techniques and fascinating complexity is being built all around us.