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Upcoming Events in the Twin Cities

Posted in Tour, tagged , , on January 31, 2010| Leave a Comment »

If you’re a fan of the book (or have friends and/or family who are) and you’re in the greater Twin Cities metro area, we’ll be all over the place in February.

Minnesota Food and Wine Experience
We’ll be there on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 2:30pm, signing books.

Edesia Cookbook Review
This is a monthly meeting of cooking fans convened by food writer Kim Ode of the Star Tribune; we’ll be at Barnes and Noble in the Galleria in Edina, MN at 7pm, Monday, Feb. 22.

The Minneapolis Home and Garden Show
We’ll be there Feb. 25 at noon, doing a cooking demo (a walnut/mushroom pie featuring Wisconsin and Minnesota cheese) and signing books.

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MCoW on FM107.1

Posted in Media Mention, tagged , , , on December 5, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Minneapolis/St. Paul folks can tune into FM107.1 at 1pm on Dec. 19, 2009, to listen to my segment on The Weekly Dish with Stephanie Hansen and Stephanie March. I’m a big fan of both Stephanies (who are integral parts of the food media scene around here), and it’s always a blast to do their show.

UPDATE: A link to the show. (I appear at about 11:10.)

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Magers and Quinn in Minneapolis

Posted in Tour, tagged , , , , on December 2, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Kate NG Sommers

Kate NG Sommers

We had a wonderful event at Magers and Quinn, an independent bookstore in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. We were joined by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl (below, right), a gifted food writer (and four-time Beard Award winner) whose own book on wine, Drink This, happens to be coming out at about the same time as ours. Cheese plus wine is a hell of a pairing. Dara fired a series of questions at us before the crowd chimed in with queries of their own.

Kate NG Sommers

The good folks at France 44 (a tremendous cheese, wine, and liquor store in Minneapolis) joined us for the event, and brought along some Pleasant Ridge Reserve (developed in part by master cheesemaker Bob Wills) and aged cheddar from Widmer’s Cheese Cellars in Theresa, WI. Cheesemongers Benjamin Roberts and Song Lee (bottom right) were kind enough to walk our admiring crowd through the cheese they were kind enough to bring.

Kate NG Sommers

And since we were on our home turf, we were lucky enough to have a friend of ours, Kate NG Sommers, on hand to shoot the event. Thanks, Kate! If you’re a food fan, Kate’s blog is worth following: It’s called Fork, Knife, and Spoon.

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Faribault Dairy Blue Cheese

Posted in General, Tasting Notes, tagged , , , , , , on March 4, 2009| Leave a Comment »

We recently had the opportunity to go to the unveiling of a cheese produced by Faribault Dairy with Summit Brewing Company. The ideas was to combine blue cheese with beer, and the result was “Winter Blues” which was sold as a limited run at local Lunds and Byerly’s.

The taste was quite similar to Faribault’s Amablu cheese, which is naturally cave aged in their naturally occurring sandstone caves. The cheese had been soaked in the winter ale from Summit, which gave it a little bitter and earthy flavor on the rind.

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