I imagine they readied themselves as they made their way east toward Wisconsin, little wings linked, galoshes on, scarves thrown jauntily over their shoulders and then -- “One! Two! Three! Four! Five! Six! Seven! Eight! Schmiel! Schmazel! Hasenpfeffer incorporated!” -- a whole hive full of Laverne and Shirley-esque worker bees headed to work in a [...]
If you’re reading this from my post, then our daughter Molly has successfully foraged and then baked a delicious mulberry pie for her dad on Father’s Day. If you are reading this from another source, then please know we went out in a happy blaze of buttery crust and sugared berries. Either way, our house [...]
On a somewhat stormy Saturday morning, my friend Catherine and I took a foraging class and this is what I learned: 1. You can eat almost any plant in Wisconsin, except the ones that will kill you in a prompt and painful manner. 2. You can forage almost anywhere in Wisconsin, except where it is [...]
Did you ever pop into a bakery to buy a single treat and walk out with a dozen? That's what happened to me Wednesday afternoon when I popped into Whisk and Arrow to buy a friend of mine an after school snack. Tucked away on a busy street in a building that, ironically, used to [...]
Owing to its state slogan "land of 10,000 lakes", I never thought of Minneapolis as a river city. It always seemed like a lake kind of town. But, born, as it was, on both banks of the Mississippi, a river city it is, and I love the history of American river cities, possibly because I [...]