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MNnext: Millennials and the food lifestyle

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Chefs at Prairie Bay Grill & Catering in Baxter, Minn. connect with local farmers using a website called Local Dirt.
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The experience of food has become an essential component of the millennial lifestyle.

In this installment, host Maddy Mahon talks with James Norton, editor and publisher of the online food publication The Heavy Table about the role Gen Y'ers are playing in re-shaping Minnesota's food culture.

Norton says millennials tend to be more DIY in the kitchen, support more sustainable and more local farms, and spend more time and money on food than other generations.

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