Who's the best home cook in Minnesota?
I'm assisting a major-mojo food writer/cookbook author on a big ol' cookbook that spans the regional favorites across the US. We're looking for mostly non-professional cooks who have favorite recipes that have good stories behind them. I think of it as foods that express the cook's soul as well as the region's soul. Post yr comments but if you'd like to provide me with contact info (please!), you may email me at nora[at]shermanhome.com. I will be in the Twin Cities in the week after Thanksgiving to do interviews and collect recipes -- if you (or a friend) has a recipe to share, would love to meet up then.
I also welcome your thoughts on this question: if you could only include ONE MN food in this massive tome, what it would be and why (and yes, we're doing a little story on lutefisk!).
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RE: "if you could only include ONE MN food in this massive tome"
I've taken a lot of ribbing on various food discussion boards for this as being representative of Minnesota cuisine: Hot Dish! (expecially if the recipe includes Campbells "Cream of Lutheran" Soup)
To make it real authentic, it could use Wild Rice?
SB (pretty darn good MN home cook)
srhcb at 12:06PM on 11/06/07
My ONE MN food to include would be MN Wild Rice Soup. Hot dish is a close second. My vote for best home cook would go to "Mrs. Byerly" (of Byerly's supermarkets) because that's what I grew up with. (My mom couldn't cook, so our family depended on her).
@Nora- be sure to bring a warm coat!
LiveToEat at 12:31PM on 11/06/07
As an interesting aside, you might want to check out Dorothy Molter, known as the "Root Beer Lady" of the Minnesota Boundary Waters.
thebrokedown at 1:39PM on 11/06/07
Sorry, I messed up the link. Here it is without that there fancy html coding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Molter
thebrokedown at 1:42PM on 11/06/07
Thanks for the suggestions! Yes, there will def. be 1-2 wild rice dishes, including, I hope, soup.
The "root beer lady" is such a hoot -- I wish she was out there giving out ice-cold root beer in the 90s, when I was a summer camper paddling thru the Boundary Waters! It was just bug juice for us.
Thanks again.
noraleah at 1:40PM on 11/07/07