‘Miscellany’ Archives
Free Summer Cooking Classes and Resources
By MICHELLE SHAW Kicking off MEB’s 5th year of offering free cooking classes with Chef Lachelle Cunningham at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church. Chef Lachelle tops off the Smoked Mushroom Flatbread with lots of delicious and nutritious homegrown veggies! PHOTOS: Rico Morales If you didn’t make it to the Minneapolis Edible Boulevards (MEB) June cooking class with Lachelle Cunningham, check out the recipe and video on the MEB Facebook page. The smoked mushroom flatbread was “heaven”, as one person said, and got attendees thinking about how to cook with ingredients grown in their gardens. Huge shout-outs to Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church and Chef Lachelle for co-hosting and to the Green Zone grant for sponsoring the program.On July 13, we will welcome Jess Toliver of jessdeliciousliving.com to the Old Highland Peace Garden, where we’ll be making a delicious rice noodle salad with peanut sauce. Then we’ll return to the Southside on August 1 for a rare weekday class, [...]
In Praise of Ventura Village
from the series Peace House Community - A Place to Belong By MARTI MALTBY Marti Maltby This article may sound like I’m currying favor, or being really self-serving, but I want to praise what I see in the alley and in Ventura Village. When I started writing articles for the alley about five years ago, I didn’t really expect anyone to read them. I thought this was a small neighborhood newspaper that sat in racks at the local grocery stores and were recycled when the next edition came out. I have been proven wrong many times over. I don’t know how many times people have commented to me about something I wrote, and I still find myself thinking, “You actually read my article? Why?” It turns out A LOT of people are really interested in what happens in their own neighborhood and want to engage with each other, both through print and in person. I shouldn’t be that surprised. I like reading the alley myself, even though I don’t live here. I don’t read every [...]
