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Food and Drink

Hops sprout for craft beer fans in Minneapolis community garden

Hops sprout for craft beer fans in Minneapolis community garden

Gardeners in the Longfellow neighborhood of south Minneapolis are planting a community garden where they grow only hops, the bitter plant used to brew beer.
by Jon Collins

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Photos: Bacon lovers find a little slice of heaven in Duluth

Photos: Bacon lovers find a little slice of heaven in Duluth

For bacon lovers in Duluth, Thursday was a chance to try a host of bacon-flavored treats. More than 500 people came to the University of Minnesota Duluth's Kirby Ballroom, to sample dishes cooked up by Twin Ports restaurants and bakeries at the inaugural "Baconpalooza."
by Derek Montgomery

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Appetites: 'Heritage wheat' gives rise to tasty breads

Appetites: 'Heritage wheat' gives rise to tasty breads

Old strains of wheat, vigorous plants that don't require petrochemicals, are making a comeback, especially the one that made the upper Midwest the bread basket of the world
by Tom Crann

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Original Cheerios to go GMO-free

Original Cheerios are already made with non-GMO oats, but now the company says it's also using non-GMO cornstarch and sugar.
by The Associated Press

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Open Arms provides lifeline of healthy meals

Open Arms provides lifeline of healthy meals

Open Arms of Minnesota provides fresh-cooked meals -- and a lifeline -- to Minnesotans with life-threatening illnesses, especially at the holidays.
by Julie Siple

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Appetites: Roadside food gems for your Thanksgiving travels

Appetites: Roadside food gems for your Thanksgiving travels

Many of us will be covering long stretches of bleak Midwestern terrain this Thanksgiving without anything but fast food to eat. Luckily, the creators of the Heavy Table website share their best bets for North Coast road food.
by Tom Crann

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Top 8 facts about Minnesota's brewing history

Top 8 facts about Minnesota's brewing history

During the drought before the beer boom it could have been easy to forget that brewing has long been an important presence in the state.

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Does bacon really make everything better?

You'd have to be living under a rock to miss the signs of our cultural obsession with bacon. There are bacon Band-Aids, bacon tattoos, bacon sundaes, bacon-infused cocktails and even babies wrapped in bacon costumes, just in time for Halloween. But is all this devotion to fatty pig flesh merited? Does bacon truly make everything better, as some cookbooks have boldly declared?

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Appetites: Amy Thielen brings a national audience to the 'Midwestern Table'

Appetites: Amy Thielen brings a national audience to the 'Midwestern Table'

Chef Amy Thielen, author of the cookbook "The New Midwestern Table" and host of the new Food Network show "Heartland Table," is part of the movement bringing Midwestern food into the national spotlight.
by Tom Crann

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