Twin Cities summertime favorites

It's time to savor the all-too-brief Minnesota summer by dining outdoors at a local restaurant patio. Here's a roundup of my favorite restaurant patios in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

When I moved to the Twin Cities, a scoop of raspberry chocolate chip ice cream was what convinced me to stick around. Since then, I've become an ice cream connoisseur, scouting out the best frozen treats in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Here are my picks for the best ice cream in the Twin Cities—plus my all-time favorite.

Here are the best things I ate and drank in Nashville, in chronological order—this is only a taste of what the Music City's wide-ranging dining scene has to offer.

As a Twin Cities-based blogger and food writer, there's one question that I hate more than any other: "What's your favorite restaurant?" Immediately, my mind goes blank and I forget everywhere I've ever eaten. Typically I stammer out the first place that pops into my head, and my questioner inevitably looks disappointed.

For the past several years, I've hosted an annual Pi Day celebration featuring an assortment of pies. As you might remember from geometry class, pi is a circle's circumference divided by its diameter...

It's been eight years since I quit my day job as a intellectual property paralegal to plunge into self-employment. And now I'm taking another leap into the unknown-I'm writing a novel.