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Can’t Afford Southwest Minneapolis? Consider Edina (Yup, Edina)

The Twin Cities’ “Brooklyn” and “Manhattan?”  The Case for Edina’s Country Club Neighborhood Brooklyn has become so hot — and expensive — that the joke in New York is that people who can’t afford to live there should check out cheaper digs in Manhattan. In particular, the Upper East Side now looks like a relative...
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“Mill Valley Cafe” in St. Louis Park

“Is there a “Taste of America” in India, Daddy?* “What is an expert?  Someone who is 20 miles from home.” Switch the subject to food and add a zero (or three), and you’ve just described one of the culinary (marketing?) world’s enduring truths. And yes, the same phenomenon applies elsewhere; see “Minnesota Bratwurst — in...
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"Minnesota Bratwurst" — in Brooklyn!

DUMBO, Pizza Bars, and Bratwurst In Minnesota, fashionable restaurants tout their delicacies from far away: fresh Alaskan salmon, Washington cherries, etc. So, walking past one of the trendiest-looking bistros in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood (“Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass”) earlier this week, I noted that the top item on the chalkboard display was “Minnesota Bratwurst.”...
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