Food and Drink

Photos: Bacon lovers find a little slice of heaven in Duluth
For bacon lovers in Duluth, Thursday was a chance to try a host of bacon-flavored treats. More than 500 people came to the University of Minnesota Duluth's Kirby Ballroom, to sample dishes cooked up by Twin Ports restaurants and bakeries at the inaugural "Baconpalooza."
Appetites: Roadside food gems for your Thanksgiving travels
Many of us will be covering long stretches of bleak Midwestern terrain this Thanksgiving without anything but fast food to eat. Luckily, the creators of the Heavy Table website share their best bets for North Coast road food.
Top 8 facts about Minnesota's brewing history
During the drought before the beer boom it could have been easy to forget that brewing has long been an important presence in the state.
You'd have to be living under a rock to miss the signs of our cultural obsession with bacon. There are bacon Band-Aids, bacon tattoos, bacon sundaes, bacon-infused cocktails and even babies wrapped in bacon costumes, just in time for Halloween. But is all this devotion to fatty pig flesh merited? Does bacon truly make everything better, as some cookbooks have boldly declared?
Appetites: Amy Thielen brings a national audience to the 'Midwestern Table'
Chef Amy Thielen, author of the cookbook "The New Midwestern Table" and host of the new Food Network show "Heartland Table," is part of the movement bringing Midwestern food into the national spotlight.