Appetites: The real taste of the Twin Cities

What represents the real taste of the Twin Cities? That's the question Minneapolis Saint Paul Magazine's Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl set out to answer for her recent piece for the website Serious Eats.

She says the Twin Cities aren't an easy place to understand, but she told All Things Considered host Tom Crann how she opted to define the metro food scene for a national audience.

Use the audio player above to hear their entire conversation.

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