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.

May 6, 2015 1:00 PM

Appetites: 5 dinner party tips from 'The Dinner Party Download' hosts

Rico Gagliano and Brendan Francis Newnam dish on what's essential for a good time over grub.

by Krystyna Pease

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April 29, 2015 2:30 PM

Appetites: Serving up the whole animal in 'nose-to-tail' dining

There was a time when the idea of eating a whole animal was not a food trend -- it was just being thrifty.

by Tom Crann

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April 22, 2015 2:35 PM

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.

by Tom Crann

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April 15, 2015 2:30 PM

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.

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April 8, 2015 3:30 PM

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.

by Tom Crann

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April 1, 2015 1:44 PM

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.

by Tom Crann

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March 25, 2015 2:00 PM

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.

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March 18, 2015 2:30 PM

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.

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March 11, 2015 2:00 PM

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.

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March 4, 2015 5:31 PM

Appetites: Hmong cuisine, 'the ultimate fusion food'

Pakou Hang, co-founder and executive director of the Hmong American Farmers Association, shares five things you might not have known about Hmong food and farming in Minnesota.

by Steven John

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