Heidi Holtan

1 month ago | kaxe.org | Amy Thielen |Heidi Holtan

This week, Amy and Heidi's adventures in the kitchen feature cooking with lye, pickling lime, Hawaiian taro and some other semi-hazardous ingredients that, since the beginning of cooking time, have been used to turn humble raw ingredients into unforgettable delicacies. Guests include 87-year-old lutefisk extraordinaire Wally Everson, Top Chef and Iron Chef alum Lee Anne Wong, and chef Megan Handke, who will be dropping some recipes and techniques that are dangerously delicious.

1 month ago | kaxe.org | Heidi Holtan

KAXE is proud to launch Ham Radio: Cooking with Amy Thielen, a new six-part, one-hour radio show and podcast. Hosted by James Beard Award-winning chef and writer Amy Thielen with KAXE's Director of Content Heidi Holtan, the show explores how we actually live and cook in Northern Minnesota. Our first Ham Radio will be about risky business. What's the riskiest food or recipe you have tried?

1 month ago | kaxe.org | Heidi Holtan

GRAND RAPIDS — Fishing guide says the 2025 walleye fishing opener is going to be a head scratcher, with ice just going out on some of the northernmost lakes in Minnesota, and warmer temperatures in other parts of the state. Conditions vary widely and Sundin suggests putting some time in to research where you might be headed. He suggested the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource's website, which includes information on the lakes of Minnesota, and current conditions.

1 month ago | kaxe.org | Heidi Holtan

GRAND RAPIDS — When you think about saving a life, you might picture jumping from cliffs and swelling music in an action movie. But sometimes, saving a life can be a cheek swab, a little patience and saying "yes" when the call comes. KAXE music producer and host of Headwaters and Minnesota Mixtape Malachy Koons signed up years ago to donate bone marrow and recently answered the call to give.

2 months ago | kaxe.org | Heidi Holtan

It's not just the landscape of Lake Superior on the North Shore of Minnesota that can be moody and unpredictable. So, too, are the characters at the center of Peter Geye's new novel A Lesser Light, published by the University of Minnesota Press. Set in the 1920s, Theodulf and Willa Sauer find themselves almost forced into marriage — for very different reasons. Theodulf is trying to be someone he isn't, while Willa has lost her father as well as the ability to continue her independent life.