Sharyn Jackson

4 days ago | startribune.com | Sharyn Jackson

By Sharyn Jackson Call it flammkuchen, tarte flambée or just Alsatian pizza, but this flatbread found in loads of pubs and street-food vendors in the area along the Rhine River where France and southern Germany meet is just plain delicious. It starts with a thin, almost flaky crust and gets topped with crème fraîche or sour cream, a melty cheese like Gruyère or mozzarella, little chunks of bacon or ham, and thinly sliced onions.

1 week ago | startribune.com | Sharyn Jackson

The Fainting Goat at Alpha & Omega Pizza Farm Pizza farms are a spring and summer rite of passage in the Upper Midwest. If you're not familiar, they're not farms that have some strange, never-before-seen pizza plants. Rather, they're farms that open their fields to us city folk to enjoy a piping hot wood-fired pizza with music, friends and animals in the most picturesque of surroundings.

1 week ago | startribune.com | Sharyn Jackson

There were tears, at times, during the heart-wrenching stories of displacement and trauma, and groans of gastronomic approval from guests after the savory first bites of each course. But the biggest reaction of the night at Immigrant Kitchen, a family-style dinner for 60, came when organizer Mecca Bos explained why she had chosen to spotlight immigrant home cooks in the first of a new Twin Cities culinary series.

2 weeks ago | startribune.com | Sharyn Jackson

It takes a lot of fuel to power a winning team. Thermoses of bone broth to stave off the late-night munchies. Protein balls for quick bites, and oranges for recovery. Sweets that satisfy but still keep sugar in check. That's all on the menu for the likes of Naz Reid, Rudy Gobert and Anthony Edwards. The Timberwolves, and other elite Minnesota athletes, get their fuel from KZ Provisioning.

3 weeks ago | startribune.com | Sharyn Jackson

Billy Tserenbat is looking to the past for inspiration for his next big project. Tserenbat, the owner of Billy Sushi, has partnered with Marty Collins, a co-owner of NOLO's, to launch a restaurant he hopes will be the North Loop's next hotspot. And it's inspired by two ghosts of Minneapolis' party-restaurant past: Chino Latino and Bellanotte. "Everyone had a good story about Chino Latino, and everyone had a good story about Bellanotte," Tserenbat said Wednesday.