Secrets of the City

And here’s a recipe for bread and butter pudding that I published. Delicious.

re: Red Pepper’s blog, Twin Cities Eats. Kevin Hoffman explained in the comments: Hi there! Sorry for the accidental similarity in the blog name–we intended “Twin Cities Eater” to be a call back to our dearly departed sister paper, the Twin Cities Reader, not to step on your toes.

Kevin’s got to be the only other traditional media guy out there frequently appearing in comments and online explaining decisions to bloggers/consumers. I think it’s awesome.

Agreed, it’s pretty cool. I just wish he would stop with the cover stories about AWESOME MINNESOTA VIOLENT PEOPLE (Derek Boogaard, the Baldies, etc). I know he’s still trying to get some MN cred, but I don’t think this is the way to go about it.

The City Pages has been doing some good stories as of late – the slum landlord story being a particularly vexing example.

Right on, Teuc…I’m still mad about that story…

I agree Jason, even though I generally hate the guy.

It does seem a little disingenuous, though, for City Pages managment to refer to the Reader as “dearly departed sister paper”. CP’s owners (at the time) bought the Reader specifically to shut it down and eliminate the competition. Hoffman has probably never even seen an issue of the Reader, and may not know the history.

Sorry, “hate” is too strong, and unnecessarily hurtful. I am generally skeptical about him and his employers.

See, the problem is all these small media outlets are owned and operated by journalists who probably never took a business course in the life.

Isn’t City pages owned by Village Voice media?

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

Posing the question to Maz.

Yep, which is the new name of the uber-capitalist Arizona company that bought the Village Voice chain a couple years ago.

The Village Voice, when it bought City Pages and the Reader was owned by Goldman Sachs. Commies.

fuck yes to poutine!

vote yes on proposition poutine today!

I think that Poutine is a proposition that can unite us across the aisle.

We must say Yes We Can to combining fresh, squeaky wisconsin cheese curds with well seasoned, crisp, homemade french fries. We must say Yes We Can to savory gravy type substances uniting these flavors. We must say Yes We Can to weekly cholesterol screenings.

America is united behind these truths. They are not just, words, NAY! They are a culinary revolution from our north of the border friends!

I will override every veto of poutine ever!

Think I’d get sick eating that.

Gravy is evil.

What about baby gravy?

gravy makes everything better, aliecat.

Baby Gravy! Ack!

Honey Bun…no, no it does not (but that’s just me).

@Jderusha – does Kevin’s comment mean that they are going to reconsider and change the city pages blog name to avoid the conflict with the already established blog? I can’t seem to figure out the answer anywhere. I think doing so would help establish some of that MN cred that someone said Kevin is seeking.

That’s my question too – and it looks like the answer is no. I left a post on the blog at City Pages and Kevin seems to think that there is room for both of us in the market. I still wish they would have just kept to their own “Dish” brand name, but I have no recourse. I am a simple bug buzzing over big festering pool of “real” media.

It’s hard enough to get DECENT FRIES here, let alone expecting the poutine to be any good.

Does anyone know where one can actually get some good fries, sans all the poutine mess?

My favorites are the “fresh french fries” at the state fair and I wish I could get these year round. Annie’s in Dinkytown has some great skin-on fresh cut fries as well.

cdiggity, have you tried the pommes frites at Barbette? Very, very good and you get a huge mound of them for about $6.

cdiggity, not to be snotty or anything, but man, you could take the chance and try the poutine before you slag it off. the fries were crispy and hot, the gravy was cooked perfectly (even if it came out of a jar) and not oily or lumpy, and the cheese curds were crumbled up so you got some melty cheesy goodness on every delicious fry.

try it. you might enjoy yourself.

People are defensive about their poutine!

I’ve not tried the pommes frites at barbette, but it’s on my list now.

If you want the closest I’ve found to the state fair fries, go to the Weinery over on the West Bank. I also like the fries at Porky’s. They seem to use the two fryer method over there w/ good success.