The Ultimate New Year’s Eve Guide
Plenty of free champagne, rowdy music, swanky parties and exquisite food will be going around this Wednesday, December 31. Whether you want to treat…
Read NowFood · 2014
Plum Pudding a Christmas Tradition
When it comes to re-gifting I think the number one item would be fruit cake. That boat anchor of technicolor dried fruits and maraschino…
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Gotta-Have-It Cookbooks
I collect, or amass, cookbooks the way squirrels stash nuts for the winter. Our family room, perched at the uppermost part of our house,…
Read NowGoing “Nuts”
So let’s talk about nuts and the holidays. I do mean the nuts you eat of course. “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an…
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From Asian to Mexican
Usually I write about my food adventures to Minneapolis or Jamaica. But, hey, we drove 45 minutes due east and found some yummy food…
Read NowApple this, Apple That
My husband and I have owned two homes in Fargo and both have had apple trees, although not the same kind. And, as of…
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Coffee Talk: Stumbeano’s Coffee Bar now pouring over downtown
Greg Stumbo of Fergus Falls started roasting coffee in the early 2000s as a hobby. He said it was a popular trend at the…
Read NowLucy’s in the Sky
We all have had one of those moments, you know, where you are just craving something and you just have to have it. No…
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The Keng of food
You know that feeling when you think, “I’ve just met somebody pretty special”? Well I have always felt that way about Thamrong “Keng” Dechawuth,…
Read NowAuthentic African Cuisine
On Oct. 8, when news broke from the Dallas Texas Presbyterian Hospital about Thomas Eric Duncan’s fatal demise, assistant chef Mohamed Yasser continued about…
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The many lives of salt
How many people use salt on their food? My husband, Mike, and I were just at the movies and enjoying a nice big box…
Read Now“It was just a crumb”
To someone with celiac disease that “crumb” could wreak havoc on their lower intestine and cause crippling pain. Not all sufferers of this disease…
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Seasons they are a changin’
I did my usual trip to the farmers market on Saturday to stock up on tomatoes and other wholesome goodness and was saddened to…
Read NowMoorhead Gets Tastier
HPR reviews Rustica When you cross the Main Street Bridge from Fargo into the sort of culinary wasteland known as Moorhead you will notice…
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Milkhaus: Ice cream innovators
By April Knutson On an unbearably hot and humid Saturday afternoon I strolled into Square One Rental Kitchen where Milkhaus creators Chris Wilkes and…
Read NowWest Acres and The Botanic Garden Society
I had a conversation with Jacqueline Williams, a volunteer with The Northern Plains Botanic Garden Society. Williams and Botanic Gardens have helped establish West…
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Wine so D’Vine
The 200 block of Broadway in Downtown Fargo has recently seen a huge boom in development and new businesses. Joining the roster of new…
Read NowRomo’s Tacos hits the mark
Those of you who have visited this page over the past year will have heard me whine about the lack of good Mexican food…
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Prairie Roots’ Local Food Mystery Tour full of organic goodness
By Lauren Beek The bus sat white and gleaming in the Cash Wise Foods parking lot. I quickly found a spot, as the lot…
Read NowYoung Blood Coffee Roasters serving more than your average cup of joe
By Liz Rahn For Ian Johnson and the rest of the team at Young Blood Coffee Roasters, making really good coffee means doing it…
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