Fall Adventures: Moose in Rut
A number of years ago I went on a solo grouse hunting excursion along an old logging road where I had experienced a lot of...
Chuck Viren
Friends, Family and Food Trucks
Food trucks have been gaining in popularity for years, in part because of their synergistic relationship with taprooms. Then during the pandemic, takeout became the...
Cookie Therapy
Who doesn’t love a good cookie? Cookies bring smiles. Cookies bring joy. Perhaps that is why decorative cookies have become popular at birthdays, graduations, and...
A Passion for Kombucha Motivates Brewers
I am often curious about how particular foods are discovered and developed. Take haggis, for example, or lutefisk. How did people make these discoveries? Cheese...
Artisan Bread Along the North Shore
Over the many thousands of years that humans have been making bread, techniques have been refined, as have the grains used to make bread. None-the-less,...
Lessons from The Sioux Chef
The Indigenous people who populated the boreal forests of this region traveled to encampments where they would grow or gather foods based on their seasonal...
Pizza on the North Shore
Flatbreads were known to have been eaten in ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece. It didn’t take long for people to add toppings to these flatbreads....
Healthy Food—Commitment to Community
Autumn and early winter seem to provide the perfect opportunity to add a few pounds to the old physique. With the first winds of autumn,...