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    June 2, 2019
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    A spoonful of sugar made this medicine a fruit
    It was 1837, and Queen Victoria had ascended the throne but had not yet been coronated. That ceremony would take place June 28, 1838, and English...
    lifestyle/foodJune 2, 2019 - 6:00am
    May 18, 2019
    Grim's Grub: It's all Greek, especially the asparagus
    Asparagus is one of my favorite perennials, largely because it makes an appearance so early after the winter. This is important because by the...
    lifestyle/foodMay 18, 2019 - 7:30am
    May 7, 2019
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    Grim's Grub: How everything came to taste like chicken
    It is time to talk about our most famous meat, the item to which every other food is compared and which seems to be the only food some children...
    lifestyle/foodMay 7, 2019 - 8:00am
    April 24, 2019
    Allium tricoccum growing in its natural woodland environment. Hardyplants at English Wikipedia. This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Hardyplants at English Wikipedia.
    Onions, or how Chicago got its name
    Spring weather is nearly here, and with it comes a brief window of time where I and some others in the know will harvest ramps, or wild onions....
    lifestyle/foodApril 24, 2019 - 4:00am
    April 8, 2019
    Grim's Grub: History lesson covers chemical leaveners
    At one time in history, our European ancestors likely depended largely on yeast as a leavener. Many of our leavened baked goods today depend on a different leavener, called chemical leaveners, the primary one being baking soda. Baking soda is a salt known as sodium bicarbonate. In...
    lifestyle/foodApril 8, 2019 - 11:41pm
    March 24, 2019
    Grim's Grub: Let's finish Minnesota FoodShare Month strong
    March is officially Minnesota FoodShare Month, a campaign that started in 1982 in the Twin Cities metro area and exploded into a statewide event...
    lifestyle/foodMarch 24, 2019 - 2:30am
    By Rembrandt Peale - http://www.whitehouseresearch.org/assetbank-whha/action/viewHome, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72792044
    Grim's Grub: Thomas Jefferson, macaroni spy
    It's amazing to think how obsessed a person can be with food. It may sound like I'm just talking about myself, but among other food obsessed...
    lifestyle/foodFebruary 24, 2019 - 8:00am
    February 13, 2019
    Detail from Portrait of Antoine Parmentier - (1737-1813). By François Dumont [Public domain].
    Grim's Grub: The story of Parmentier's potato ruse
    I think one of the most universally liked foods in the world is probably the potato. Most people I know enjoy some form of potato, whether it...
    lifestyle/foodFebruary 13, 2019 - 10:00am
    January 30, 2019
    Pictured: Carne de membrillo, quince paste from Spain. Asturnut at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
    Grim's Grub: Here's another fruit preserve option
    OK, OK, I'll admit I'm a little bit obsessed with the meat and cheese tray. First I wrote about venison charcuterie, then liver pate. I will...
    lifestyle/foodJanuary 30, 2019 - 8:00am
    January 15, 2019
    Grim's Grub: Liver pate: Try it, you just might like it
    Food is odd in that you sometimes like or hate certain foods in all their forms, and then there are those foods you usually dislike, except when...
    lifestyle/foodJanuary 15, 2019 - 10:00am
    December 28, 2018
    Grim's Grub: Try better storage for better quality fish
    I bet many of my readers at this very moment have in their freezer a ziplock bag filled full with water and fish. I'm here to tell you there...
    lifestyle/foodDecember 28, 2018 - 1:00pm
    December 5, 2018
    Grim's Grub: Yes, deer: Make venison sausage, bacon
    I've mentioned in the past that wild food seems to bring out generosity, and venison is often no different. I thank my friends and family very...
    lifestyle/foodDecember 5, 2018 - 8:00am
    November 21, 2018
    Grim's Grub: Try these techniques to smoke food
    Many of our food preparation tricks today come from ancient, usually accidental, discoveries that we eventually learned to savor for their taste....
    lifestyle/foodNovember 21, 2018 - 10:00am
    November 7, 2018
    Grim's Grub: It's time to bring out slow cookers
    The wind is blowing cold and that white stuff is starting to crop up unsolicited on my doorstep. While that makes me envy the bear and its ability...
    lifestyle/foodNovember 7, 2018 - 1:00pm
    October 9, 2018
    Grim's Grub: Wild food makes us more social
    Wild food is a passion not all people have, I'll admit, but I can't help but feel like foraging revives some of the culture we may have left...
    lifestyle/foodOctober 9, 2018 - 12:00pm
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