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April 28, 2009

Of Crepes, Donuts and Wedding Cakes

Sara from Roseville writes:

I am getting married in August and the biggest thing about a wedding with my family is the food. Being that neither of us are nuts about wedding cake, we decided to have mini Bismarcks frosted in our favorite flavors instead. I’m excited about that idea, but there’s still a little part of me that would like to do the traditional cake thing after dinner and then bring the mini donuts out with coffee later. However, just now as I was sitting down reading my latest Martha Stewart Weddings, this cake stole my heart:

http://www.ladymconfections.com/millecrepes.html

The problem of course is that it’s a bit expensive... Read more »

April 8, 2009

All the News: Don Saunders, Landon Schoenfeld, and the Byzantine Hierarchy of Tim McKee’s Unnamed Sustainable Seafood Place!

I was too traumatized about Fugaise closing to write about it. The now defunct northeast Minneapolis fine-dining restaurant was one of the Twin Cities’ standard bearers for traditional French technique. I don’t know why it upset me so much. I knew from the second I walked in the door, three and a half years ago, that the place was operating on borrowed time—that’s how catastrophically ugly the dining room was. Still, I thought the chef, Don Saunders, who made his name at St. Paul’s long-gone Au Rebours was a phenomenal talent, and it hurts my heart when talented people doing good work suffer. But Saunders seems to have landed on his feet, so I feel better.

Fugaise, Saunders told me, “was always financially viable, not making a ton of money,... Read more »

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