Rachel Hutton is the editor of Minnesota Monthly magazine.

The Minnesota Drinking Guide continues with the state's best wineries, which have been around for decades, and cideries, the latest trend in local drinking.


Moveable Feast: Minnesota wineries and cideries

While not quite as explosive as Minnesota's brewing scene, distilling has been growing by leaps and bounds, too. Here are some of the state's best distilleries.


Moveable Feast: Best Minnesota drinking - distilleries

The Minnesota brewery scene has positively exploded since brewery legislation changed in 2011 to allow breweries to sell their own beer on-site in a taproom.


Moveable Feast: Here's to Minnesota's beer scene

The Scandinavian-American tradition of eating lutefisk, an oddly gelatinous lye-soaked whitefish, is a popular holiday "treat" for some — and a source of utter disgust for others.


Moveable Feast: It's lutefisk supper season

Granite Falls, Minn., offers plenty of small-town charm, plus several world-class attractions.


Moveable Feast: Granite Falls boasts small-town charm

This week on Moveable Feast, John Birge and Rachel Hutton explore the dining scene in Richfield, a small suburb south of Minneapolis.


Moveable Feast: Richfield Restaurants

If you're flying somewhere for next week's MEA weekend, check out the new public art at MSP Airport. There are new sculptures and holographic displays in Terminal 2 -- such as Philip Noyed's Aurora Borealis and L'Etoile du Nord -- that comprise the largest art instillation at the facility in 15 years.


Moveable Feast: public art at MSP airport

The centennial anniversary of the birth of Thelonius Monk is approaching on Oct. 10. In honor of Monk's landmark composition, 'Round Midnight,' Rachel Hutton and John Birge talk about late-night jazz and eats on this week's Moveable Feast.


Moveable Feast: Round Midnight

Within driving distance from Minnesota is North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park, where geological formations, petrified forests and abundant wildlife can be seen. Theodore Roosevelt National Park is the subject of this week's Moveable Feast.


Moveable Feast: Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Looking around the state and region for places to go, the St. Croix Crossing Bridge is now open, easing congestion for those traveling between Minnesota and Wisconsin. We also look at some things to do in Biwabik and a cool place for selfies in the city of Faribault.


Moveable Feast: tourism tidbits from around the state

Rachel Hutton is the editor of Minnesota Monthly magazine.


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