Minneapolis Star Tribune: The Taste 50
Yesterday my local paper published their annual taste listing. In it they list "Fifty people, products, places and ideas that make Minnesota the place for food fans." Over the course of the next year (52 weeks) I plan (and hope) to cover each of the 50 products/places/ideas listed in the article.
Eventually the link may break, so here is the list.
1. Liquid gold - Josephine Mangano’s Valli Dell’Etna olive oil
2. In the back, on the left - Dong Yang Oriental Foods
3. Rising star - Don Saunders, chef/owner of Fugaise
4. A better breakfast - Cultural Revolution fruit-in-the-bottom yogurt. (ENJOYED! See Friday, June 15, 2007)
5. A chef’s best friend - Scott Pikovsky and his 10-year old north Minneapolis wholesaler, Great Cia
6. Frosty mug, or scoop? - Pumphouse Creamery
7. Learning moment - produce department at the Seward Co-op Grocery & Deli. (ENJOYED! See Friday, June 8, 2007)
8. Hoot of a hot dish - Passow’s hilarious, spot-on Minnesota Principal Hot Dishes by Region oven helper
9. A splendid partnership - Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift.
10. - 11. Street scene - a pair of eye-catching restaurant marquees (Lurcat and Loring Pasta Bar)
12-17. Six superlative summertime sweets
12. Seven-minute icing and scads of coconut are the essential building blocks for an extravagant layer cake at Yum! Kitchen and Bakery.
13. The title dessert at Blondies Cafe — thick, buttery, packed with chocolate — explains why they didn’t call the place Brownies.
14. Lucia’s Restaurant pastry chef Annamarie Rigelman is at peak performance when she’s turning out fruit crisps. Unless she’s turned her attention to fruit pies. Then it’s a tie.
15. The amusing assortment of bite-size cookies at 20.21 is a clever tailor-made reflection of the restaurant’s made-to-share emphasis.
16. Talk about a signature dessert: The Town Talk Diner’s chocolate-hazelnut waffle is crowned with a fetchingly pink scoop of cherry ice cream.
17. Laura’s Candy’s S’more Kits, made in St. Peter, Minn., bring a big dose of class to any campfire, what with honey-molasses graham crackers, fluffy marshmallows in 13 flavors and a Vahlrona chocolate bar.
18. Cheese whiz - LoveTree Farmstead stand at the St. Paul Farmers Market,
19-20. Bring on the smoking ban
21. All aboard - Metro Transit’s route 21 along Lake Street
22-23. A gold medal park - Gold Medal Park and Spoonriver (ENJOYED! See Saturday, June 23, 2007)
24-27. New faces in town - Saffron, Bank, Little Szechuan and the Good Day Cafe
28. Where no co-op has gone before - Enter Fresh & Natural Foods. (ENJOYED! See Saturday, June 30, 2007)
29. Better half - 112 Eatery.
30. Enough said - magnetic version of painter Robert Indiana’s says-it-all paintings.
31. Ain’t love grand? - Coppola Art Imports.
32. Cookbook queen - Paulette Mitchell
33. Hell’s hotcakes - Hell’s Kitchen
34. A frozen find - La Loma tamales
35. Green acres - Burning River Farm near Osceola, Wis.
36. Setting sail - Oceanaire Seafood Room, where a seat at the raw bar provides a fine vantage
37. Windy City export - Frontera Fresco in its Nicollet Mall store in downtown Minneapolis
38. Grass-fed goodness - Pastureland butter.
39. The mighty morel
40. Locally focused shopping - Golden Fig Fine Foods
41. Taking the cake - A Baker’s Wife’s Pastry Shop cakes
42. Cultured dining - 20:21 and Cue
43. On a roll - St. Paul’s Pearson’s Candy Co’s Salted Nut Roll. (ENJOYED! See Friday, June 1, 2007)
44-45. Spanish two-fer – Solera’s Spanish wine and sherry lists
46. Landmark status - Bank, the Westin Hotel’s style-conscious restaurant and lounge. Glory hallelujah.
47. Boffo barista - Kopplin’s Coffee
48. Bagging paper and plastic – reusable shopping bag
49. Does Doritos know about this? – chips from Whole Grain Milling, Co.
50. Road trip – Native Bay, Chippewa Falls, WI
I have tried, been to, and seen many of the things and places on this list. But there are more that I have not tried, been to or seen. So, regardless, it should be a fun adventure! Stay tuned!
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