Like a lot of people, I admired Anthony Bourdain. I own his two cookbooks, which are very good and get thumbed through more regularly than others, with a few things memorized into my cooking routines.…
This is Kevin. The family and I met him while out walking during the late-morning hours of the last Monday in April (yeah—time has warped even more since then). A man rode by on his bike…
On Thursday, April 23, as we wrapped the third week of “distance learning” in our house, Gov. Tim Walz announced that schools would be closed for the remainder of the school year. That was a…
This is Don. While I was out for a walk with my wife and daughter last week, we saw this vehicle parked at the side door of a house we were passing. It was something…
This is Shelby. She cheerfully rang me through at Mississippi Market this past Tuesday. She is one of the “essential” workers (along with the others at the market I saw that day stocking shelves, helping…
Yes, in our sudden new Covid-19 reality, a parade certainly counts as a large gathering. And a St. Patrick’s Day parade and subsequent celebrations that result in extremely tight crowds and some folks’ body fluids…
St. Paul’s history bridged vividly to the present If there is an important local author—wait, scratch that. If there is an important author to read this year, it’s Melvin Whitfield Carter Jr. Carter is a St. Paul…
The first blizzard of the season rolled in after Thanksgiving. It wasn’t a “doozy” (the technical term for “big,” I believe), it was one of those that unravel slowly in temperatures that hover around freezing:…
Social media is not going away (duh), and to succeed, businesses need to embrace it (again, duh). But it doesn’t have infect your life (much). “Facebook is the Internet for a lot of people,” said…
The price of lobster has dropped, but the cost to catch and process them has not. Note: A version of this story was first published in Foodservice News in February 2013, thus explaining some of…