Category: Food
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Pure Wow
It\’s been 914 days since the last post on simpleprop.com. It was my annual (at that point) Vikings preview for the 2014 season… let\’s not even talk about that. In these days of the rise of nationalism, Trump, Travel Bans, ISIS, Russia, and so on; what has finally gotten me off my ass to write…
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New State Fair Foods for 2014
The Minnesota State Fair has updated their website with the new foods for 2014. In years past (2012, 2011, 2010 Day 1 / 2010 Day 2) I\’ve posted my thoughts on the food, and I plan to do the same this year.
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Food Inc.: Revisited
Recently I watched Food Inc. for the second time. There was a quote that caught my ear from Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms. I\’m paraphrasing but essentially it was that when he is at the farmers market people come up to him and are outraged that a dozen eggs from his farm costs three dollars,…
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New Foods At The 2012 Minnesota State Fair
The last few years I\’ve posted reviews and/or a handy guide on the food of the state fair. I do this as a public service so you don\’t have to try camel on a stick. You can find the webpage here (http://www.mnstatefair.org/fun/12_new_food.html) with this year\’s new foods. I\’ll update post fair with what I tried.…
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It\’s Time For The Feud!
A recent story in the StarTribune caught my eye. Columnist John Tevlin goes in depth on the family feud going on just down the road from us in St. Louis Park where we\’ve seen Thanh Do (local restauranteur Thom Pham\’s cash cow) close and reopen across the street in a larger space; and his adoptive…
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The 20 Worst Drinks in America
I\’m not usually a big fan of these advice type articles. I\’m of the opinion that diet advice boils down to the following phrase: Eat less. Work out more. That said, I think this is worth a look, both because of the startling badness of some of these concoctions, and the clever imagery with which…
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Why Diets Fail
I go to the downtown Target once or twice a week to stock the work fridge with healthy (or relatively speaking \’healthier\’) snacks. I\’ve worked my ass off (almost literally) over the last two years, and I enjoy being fitter, happier, more productive. So yeah, nothing too crazy. Stock up on some yogurt, milk, granola…
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Contains: Milk
Last weekend I was enjoying a nice continental breakfast[1. Truth be told I was trying simply to hold it together after a case of food poisoning, but whatever.] at a Holiday Inn Express.[2. And just to forestall that question, yes I did make a number of extremely intelligent decisions later that day.] As people are…
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Epicurean Delight: Burger King Onion Rings
A few weeks ago Alex posted a picture on his Facebook page from the vending machine at work. I laughed out loud because the same item showed up in our vending machine as well: Burger King Onion Rings (Flavored Snacks)
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The Best Thing I Ever Ate
So I was watching Food Network the other night and came across a show called \”The Best Thing I Ever Ate\”. It featured different Food Network \”stars\” (I put that in quotes because for the most part they were all minor characters from Food Network like Mario Battali\’s Sous Chef on Iron Chef, the guy…