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Free Summer Cooking Classes and Resources

Written by the alley on 01 July 2024

By MICHELLE SHAW

Kicking off MEB’s 5th year of offering free cooking classes with Chef Lachelle Cunningham at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church.

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, which will be co-hosted with the Indigenous Food Lab Education Team at the Four Sisters Market from 12:30 -1:30 p.m. Stop by on your lunch break or join via Zoom. All classes are free – you can find the registration links and class calendars on our Facebook and Instagram pages or by contacting minneapolisedibleboulevards@gmail.com.… Read the rest “Free Summer Cooking Classes and Resources”

In Praise of Ventura Village

Written by the alley on 01 July 2024

from the series Peace House Community – A Place to Belong

By 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 article, but I love hearing about the incredible diversity of the neighborhood. It would be easy to drive through Ventura Village and not notice the Minneapolis American Indian Center, or Norway House, or the Somali Mall, or the churches, or the activities in the parks … the list goes on.… Read the rest “In Praise of Ventura Village”