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Posted October 03, 2018in The Dish

Dinner with 600 farmers and some noble pigs

September is always a month of transition as summer retreats and fall foods finally sprout. Pumpkin spiced foods and beverages, to the chagrin of some, returned earlier than ever and began metastasizing. Starbucks served pumpkin [...]

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Posted September 05, 2018in The Dish

Lots of new things

And the word nugget is passé. Midsummer cooled down after a blistering, thunderous early summer. This assuaged fears that the hostile storms of June and July had damaged our summer [...]

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Posted August 01, 2018in The Dish

A funeral, a feud, Five Farms and fake meats

Gov. Bob Ray’s passing was treated with rare respect for his eclectic achievements. From our point of view, he did more than anyone to transform Iowa, and particularly Des Moines, [...]

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Posted July 11, 2018in The Dish

You can take the cook out of the kitchen…

The suicide of writer/television star Anthony Bourdain devastated the food world in June. No other journalist has changed the way people think about food, travel and culture, at least not since the death in [...]

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