Cheers to @jeannelakso.bsky.social for getting (3 years) out ahead of this one!

Perhaps you would prefer the recipe for Pete Hegseth's Game Day Pizza, which "starts with his ex-wife's recipe"? Apparently this is a content vertical for them.

They Might Be Giants as a supporting act!

It's always agonizing to write about value because it's such a sticky mass of subjective and objective factors. But it's also hard not to think about it constantly these days.

Some of the best al pastor in a town with plenty of good al pastor. Really like this place!

Barely 90 Minutes: Cup of Love The Becca Dilley / James Norton foomance podcast returns with a cinnalicious tale of coffee and romance

New episode of Barely 90 Minutes, the incredibly low-stakes foomance podcast! In a genre famous for lazy film-making, is CUP OF LOVE the laziest film yet? And can anything be done about Olivia?! thecookbooktest.substack.com/p/barely-90-...

Culinary Stars: The Michelin Guide Comes to Minneapolis | Minnesota Monthly Minneapolis' Tourism Improvement District spent $250,000 per year for a three-year partnership with Michelin.

How much did Meet Minneapolis spend to help bring the Michelin Guide to the city? I have answers: www.minnesotamonthly.com/general/mich...

Want a Michelin Guide In Your City? Pay Up. South Korea, Singapore, and Thailand have spent millions to get their own Red Guides

This is an oldish piece but it does a pretty good job of explaining the economic terrain. Seems uneven, case-by-case, semi-transparent, and definitely $-driven for smaller cities / states / metros: www.eater.com/2018/7/18/17...

Minneapolis included in new MICHELIN Guide edition: American Great Lakes The multi-city Guide will cover six cities across the Great Lakes region; inaugural restaurant selection will be revealed in 2027

So: Minneapolis will be part of a new 2027 Michelin American Great Lakes guide, along with Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh. This is per a MeetMinneapolis press release: www.minneapolis.org/media/news-r...

Calling it now: It's a weird mistake! In terms of dining (and most other cultural things) we're a metro of 3.7 million people, not a single city with like 430,000.

Would like to nominate Palm Desert, CA. Creepy HOA / Stepford vibes, just an overall blanket of chilly, judgey hostility. Everyone had money, nobody seemed happy.

Another Kinko's memory: free coffee, but coffee so bad that it was only "coffee" in the loosest technical sense of the word. We still drank it.

In 1993 I went to Kinko's to run off about 500 copies of my high school satirical newspaper. Total bill should've been about $200. The clerk rang it up as $6.50. I sort of raised my eyebrows, he winked, and I walked out the door with a budget surplus and a massive amount of respect for that clerk.

I’ve never written anything using AI, I never will, and I have zero respect for any professional who does.

Yeah, Bent River used to be 100% on point and it wavered in recent years. Trying to run two cheese businesses in two states, it turns out, is a lot to manage.

Cheesemaker Keith Adams of Alemar talks to a group of attendees at a North Coast Nosh at the Food Building in Minneapolis. Natalie Champa Jennings / Heavy Table / File

It's a bummer on a number of levels (they were a Food Building mainstay, and always one of my favorite vendors at our North Coast Noshes), but it's also a pretty terrific achievement to have made that much good cheese for that many years.

Just had a long phone conversation with cheesemaker Keith Adams about the recent closure of Alemar Cheese Company. He had a lot of insight into a tough business that he spent 20 years pursuing: heavytable.com/keith-adams-...

The cheeseburger at Gus Gus can't be improved upon. But I just had the original butter burger (Solly's in Glendale, Wisc.) and it's right up there.

the time is now

I will also accept as valid answers the 40-minutes-too-long "Columbo Goes to England And Looks for an Umbrella" episode and the weird-yet-terrible Last Salute to the Commodore.

Hate to put Columbo on the chopping block, but No Time to Die (Columbo works the kidnapping of his nephew's new bride) is wet garbage on an August afternoon. He's just not built to lead a boring team of cops running around solving a non-murder.

We’re just normal men

They Might Be Giants - I'll Be Haunting You (official video) YouTube video by ParticleMen

If you've got a few minutes to check out a terrific short film, check this out. I keep going back to this one.

lmao the eurovision mascot is so ugly I literally screamed at this reveal

Oh man, I went there once and thought it tied the Walgreens on Hiawatha in terms of being "gate to the underworld"-level depressing. Maybe it lightened up in recent years! Anyhow, R.I.P.

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Best thing about exclusively publishing content created by and for creative humans is getting to work with creative humans. If you don't subscribe to Heavy Table, get on board, we've got some amazing stuff cooking: heavytable.substack.com

An array of dazzling orange, purple, and yellow flowers grown indoors at Cheeky Harvest. Joshua Feist / Heavy Table

Burning midnight-proximate oil on two barnburner newsletters for tomorrow: A heart-rending story about beer, trauma, and survival by @louisgarcia12.bsky.social and a tremendously interesting piece on innovative indoor agriculture by @jeannelakso.bsky.social

Jimmy's Pro Billiards exterior with signage, Columbia Heights, Minn. WACSO / Heavy Table

For that matter, the burgers at Jimmy's Billiards are incredible; if you're looking for an old-school experience, I think they also definitely qualify.

An illustration of Our Kitchen diner. WACSO / Heavy Table

Ideal Diner's exterior signage. Becca Dilley / Heavy Table

Two additional excellent diners: Our Kitchen and Ideal Diner.