From butter-infused casserole dishes of Park Rapids, MN, to brightly colored sauces in New York City’s Danube restaurant, Mac grad Amy Thielen continues to sharpen her cooking skills.
Opinion
Bon Appétit celebrates accident-free year
Our goal at Bon Appétit is to have each employee return to their home every day injury free. We make it a commitment to provide our employees with a safe place to work. The team here at Macalester is proud to report that we went one year incident free! We work hard to build a…
Food & Drink
Crock-Pot soup for those cold & busy days
Crock-Pots can be a college student’s best friend. You may have seen the many Buzzfeed videos, or articles on the subject. In fact, upon googling the phrase “Buzzfeed Crock-Pot,” the entire first page of results were direct links to articles from the website. While Buzzfeed is great and all, it can’t hurt to branch out…
Food & Drink, Gastronomi Klonowski
Gastronomi Klonowski: Valentine’s Cake
Even as large (and old) as I am, I’m still a big sucker for stuffed animals. Their fluffy cuteness is NOT something to be underestimated or taken lightly. I’d be the first to admit I still sleep with a beloved stuffed puppy every night, and I’d be lying if I said that teddy bears don’t…
Food & Drink, Gastronomi Klonowski
Gastronomi Klonowski: Muffin with attitude
Welcome back to your second home in the frozen North and to a brand new semester of Gastronomi-Klonowski! If you’re as excited as I am to hit the kitchen and cook up some good grub this Spring, you’re probably fooling yourself. And I’ll tell you why. Many things have come to pass since the end…
Food & Drink
Cooking With DeWitt: Minnesota Centenial Cookbook
Minnesota Centenial Cookbook: 100 Years of Good Cooking by Virginia Huck & Ann H. Andersen Paging through this cookbook to assess whether it would be worthwhile to review for this column, I found something of interest, a forgotten scrap of paper on page 132. It was a bank statement from November 1997, and it had…
Food & Drink
Kyle’s kitchen comebacks
In an interesting turn of events, my family actually reads what I write in The Mac Weekly. That’s hardly a surprise for any of my Facebook friends, but to the rest of you it turns out they took notice. And then they took action. This Christmas I received not one, but two fantastic recipe books:…
Food & Drink
Kyle’s Kitchen F***- ups: Cooking when you aren’t a cook
College is a time for self-discovery through experimentation. This process has been vital to my Macalester experience. I’d like to tell you about one such personal experimentation. Like other choices to experiment, this is something I hardly did before coming to Macalester. In fact, the few times I tried in high school, it left me…
Food & Drink
MacSoup: Serving up soup, no strings attached
Just in time for fall weather, which realistically is soup weather, the good folks at MacSoup are hosting their first event of the semester. This Friday, October 18th starting at 9:30 p.m. in the basement of Kagin, the dedicated kitchen warriors of the group known as Mac Soup will be serving up Borscht and Potato…