Food and Drink

July 4, 2025 6:00 AM

St. Paul food truck festival to bring Native American foods to Harriet Island Regional Park

The Native American Food Truck Festival will have cultural foods, vendors and live entertainment. More than 70 vendors will be at Harriet Island Regional Park in St. Paul on Saturday.

by Chandra Colvin

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July 3, 2025 3:10 PM

First annual Native food truck festival coming to St. Paul

The festival will feature 20 Native American-owned food trucks at Harriet Island Regional Park.

by Nina Moini and Alanna Elder

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July 3, 2025 7:10 AM

Iconic Palmer’s Bar in Minneapolis announces it will close in September

The 119-year-old Minneapolis gathering place and music venue Palmer’s Bar announced on social media late Wednesday that its final day of business will be Sept. 14. Palmer’s dates back to 1906.

by MPR News Staff

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July 1, 2025 2:41 PM

Dinner du Nord invites diners to a 7-block-long table on Nicollet Mall

A new event aims to bring 2,000 guests to a seven-block-long dinner table in downtown Minneapolis, with menus from dozens of local restaurants.

by Estelle Timar-Wilcox

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June 30, 2025 12:58 PM

General Mills among several companies removing food dyes. What's behind the shift?

General Mills, Nestle and Kraft Heinz are among the companies vowing to remove food dyes. A University of Minnesota food scientist says it’s consumer perception, not new science leading to the change.

by Nina Moini, Ellie Roth and Alanna Elder

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June 30, 2025 9:00 AM

The challenges of opening and running a restaurant

MPR News host Angela Davis and her guests talk about what it takes to start and manage a restaurant — and keep it open.

by Angela Davis and Cari Dwyer

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June 25, 2025 7:06 PM

Molly Yeh’s new cookbook taps into her sweet life on a Minnesota sugar beet farm

Author Molly Yeh wrote the cookbook “Sweet Farm!” with inspiration from her home — a fifth-generation sugar beet farm in northwestern Minnesota.

by Lisa Ryan and Gretchen Brown

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June 25, 2025 9:00 AM

The health dangers of too much sugar

Many Americans consume far more sugar than we should, and it’s making us sick. MPR News host Angela Davis talks with a doctor and a dietitian about how sugar sneaks into our diets, why too much of it causes harm and how to cut back.

by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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June 24, 2025 2:06 PM

‘Ham Radio‘ highlights the complexities and passions of home cooking in greater Minnesota

James Beard award-winning chef Amy Thielen said she wants the KAXE show to sound like a community cookbook translated into radio.

by Nina Moini and Ellen Finn

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June 20, 2025 5:18 AM

Deadly listeria outbreak leads to recall of ready-to-eat fettuccine Alfredo meals

A nationwide listeria outbreak has been linked to 17 illnesses, and three deaths, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection.

by Vanessa Romo

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Food and Drink

St. Paul food truck festival to bring Native American foods to Harriet Island Regional Park

First annual Native food truck festival coming to St. Paul

Iconic Palmer’s Bar in Minneapolis announces it will close in September

Dinner du Nord invites diners to a 7-block-long table on Nicollet Mall

General Mills among several companies removing food dyes. What's behind the shift?

The challenges of opening and running a restaurant

Molly Yeh’s new cookbook taps into her sweet life on a Minnesota sugar beet farm

The health dangers of too much sugar

‘Ham Radio‘ highlights the complexities and passions of home cooking in greater Minnesota

Deadly listeria outbreak leads to recall of ready-to-eat fettuccine Alfredo meals

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