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: The bright, snappy and oh-so-easy gimlet
Fresh lime juice and clean ice are two key ingredients to mixing up a spring-inspired drink.
Appetites: Ramps, watercress, sorrel and nettles usher in the taste of spring
As spring takes hold across Minnesota, a plethora of early vegetables are beginning to appear on farmers markets' tables. Nettles, sorrel, watercress, ramps, fiddleheads -- and how to use them.
Appetites: Best foodie neighborhoods in the Twin Cities
Several Twin Cities neighborhoods are undergoing a renaissance of sorts, with the addition of new shops and cutting edge restaurants.
Appetites: Food Building provides home for local meat and cheesemakers
The Food Building in Minneapolis is the headquarters for The Lone Grazer Creamery and Red Table Meat Company. It's just part of a statewide craft meat and cheese movement.
Appetites: A mini boom of new Twin Cities eateries
From haute to hot dogs, Minneapolis-St. Paul Magazine's Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl offers her take on the region's newest restaurants.
Appetites: How to dine for $10 at 'essential' Twin Cities restaurants
Can you eat reasonably at some of Minnesota's iconic restaurants? City Pages writer Mecca Bos discovered that the answer is yes -- if you choose carefully.
Appetites: Eat like a real Viking with the Nordic diet
For people trying to eat healthy, a lot of tricks have come and gone: low carbs, low fat, the Paleo diet, etc. Now we have the Nordic diet.
Appetites: St. Patrick's Day feasts beyond corned beef and cabbage
St. Patrick's Day is next week. If corned beef isn't your thing, cookbook author Beth Dooley has some other suggestions for the holiday feast.