Herkimer's summer sports leagues are back

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Herkimer's outdoor sports stadium.

For over 13 years, The Herkimer has been serving up more than just beer and food - they have also sponsored a variety of sports leagues from kickball to bean bags.

Caroline O'Halloran, social media and marketing manager for Herkimer, tells us their roster also includes volleyball, softball, hockey, dodge ball, and shuffleboard.

See also:
Herkimer: Best happy hour in town?

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Pearson acquires Bit-O-Honey: A reaction from a local fanatic

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An old-time favorite candy comes to Minnesota: Bit-O-Honey's biggest fan reacts
As the unrivaled number-one fan of Bit-O-Honey in the Twin Cities--and possibly the universe--I find it hard to characterize the complex set of emotions I was confronted with Wednesday upon learning that Pearson Candy Company has acquired Bit-O-Honey. The St. Paul based confectioner famous for its Salted Nut Roll will now be making the best damn candy on earth right in our backyard.

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Signature Dish: Jamie Malone of Sea Change

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Sea Change's Chef Jamie Malone presents her signature abalone & shaved asparagus

In the search for the Twin Cities' best culinary creations, we often come across dishes that stop us mid-bite and force us to reflect on the level of thought and artistry chefs put into their work. The efforts of the chefs are often laborious, and the end results are regularly consumed before the full concept can be appreciated. We've been tracking down some of these dishes to get the chef's side of the story; their thoughts, motivations, and processes. It's our hope that we can give you a deeper insight into the talents of Twin Cities chefs and to have a better understanding of what you're getting when you sit down to dinner.

Chefs are often known for their drive and work ethic. To be committed to a job that requires you to donate your life to it, especially on weekends, takes a special kind of person and Sea Change's Chef de Cuisine Jamie Malone certainly fits the bill. To say that Chef Malone is a driven person is to short sell her accomplishments. At an age much younger than most other chefs given the task of running a fine dining restaurant, she's already done more than many will do in their entire careers.

Chef Malone has a soft yet commanding presence in the kitchen and her attention to detail can be seen on every plate delivered to the dining room. Her current focus at Sea Change is on sustainable seafood, a difficult task for any chef and even more so for a chef in the Midwest. Malone goes above and beyond in this category as she has also been known to advocate the use of sustainable fish not just inside, but also outside the restaurant world.

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Inspired by City Pages' horoscope, couple bakes 'Unicorn Poop' cookies

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Jessica Burdette baked these "unicorn poop" cookies after she got the idea from our horoscopes.
Minneapolitan Jessica Burdette was reading City Pages over Labor Day weekend when she stumbled upon this life-changing message in our horoscope section by Rob Brezny:

"You need more magic in your life. ...Consider getting the process started by baking some unicorn poop cookies."

According to her boyfriend Michael Uss, Burdette got all riled up. "She doesn't get excited about a lot," he says. "But she got uncharacteristically very excited."

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Diamond Dog eating contest at First Avenue [VIDEO]

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It's man vs. sandwich
On the Fourth of July, six brave souls competed at the Depot Tavern to see who could eat the most Diamond Dogs in 10 minutes.

The event, hosted by Bobby Kahn, featured six contestants going up against City Pages' Best Hot Dog of 2012--quarter-pound dogs wrapped with pepper bacon and deep fried, and served on a pretzel bun.

Here's more on the event, and a video of the contest that set a new Diamond Dog record.


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Walker Art Center presents Kitchen Lab: a series of free food events

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Cooking at Open Field
Do you like to combine your food with art? How about the great outdoors?

The Walker Art Center is hosting a series of free food-centered events June 18-28 as part of its Open Field series.

From creating your own "amuse bouche" to an outdoor picnic operetta with a five-course tasting menu, these free, family-friendly events will run throughout the rest of June.


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Make your own Girl Scout Cookies

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Forget the box and DIY
A recent declaration by some Minnesota Girl Scouts that they would refuse to participate in the annual cookie fundraiser because their council sold off four beloved summer camps got our attention. Sure, we love the delicious cookies, but we loved summer camp too, and we're game to show our solidarity by making our own versions of popular Girl Scout cookies this year.

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Conn. artist uses gummi worms, donuts, white bread

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It's always great (seriously!) to see people making a living -- or trying to -- out of playing with food. Connecticut-based artist Kevin Van Aelst, whose work has been featured in the New York Times and New York Times Magazine, takes photos of everyday stuff -- including a lot of food -- distorted into very non-everyday arrangements. He says:

This work is about creating order where we expect to find randomness, and also hints that the minutiae all around us is capable of communicating much larger ideas.

Nice. Check out the Hawaii-shaped Hawaiian punch spill, the world map bitten into an apple, the Krispy Kreme undergoing mitosis, and of course the gummi worms arranged like chromosomes.

Gummi bear Kama Sutra

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In a similar vein as the bawdily named but totally wholesome Peeps show put on every Easter by papers like the Washington Post and our own Pi Press,we bring you the Gummi bear Kama Sutra, described by HuffPo as "yet another 'this-will-scar-you-for-life-by-using-things-from-your-childhood-in-sexual-ways' post." Enjoy!

Strib food editor encourages nutrition with food art

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This is awesome (and where have we been?). Strib Food Editor Lee Svitak Dean has put together some posters promoting nutrition a) featuring prominent historical figures and b) made out of food! We like the Einstein one. They make us think of the seed art at the state fair (remember the Mark Wheat one? Everyone remembers the Mark Wheat one.)

The great blog Obama Foodorama got some of the lowdown on the poster of the prez:

[T]he jacket is made from collards, pear and turnip; skin and hair from black and mahogany rice, cracked wheat, flax seed, millet and wheat berries; facial features from cashews, garlic, jalapeno, olives, oyster mushrooms, peppercorns, pickles, raisins, red onion, tapioca.

Nice! And guess what. You too can get your very own "Eat Smart" poster.

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