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Columnist/Reporter | Dining and Food

Phone: 612-673-4757

Rick Nelson is a restaurant critic and food writer, and he and Claude Peck are the "RN" and "CP," respectively, of Withering Glance, a Sunday column in variety. He also blogs with Lee Svitak Dean in a food blog, Table Talk.
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Ice cream treats keep us cool

It’s going to get hot — promise — and when it does, get ready to cool off with a made-on-the-premises frozen treat.

Updated: May 23, 2013, - 09:32 AM

Chef Shack Bay City opens

Food truckers-turned-restaurateurs Lisa Carlson and Carrie Summer are cooking Friday through Sunday, bricks-and-mortar-style, within a stone’s throw of Lake Pepin.

Updated: May 22, 2013, - 02:11 PM

Withering Glance: Gay marriage, Minnesota style

Rick Nelson and Claude Peck dispense unasked-for advice about clothing, etiquette, culture, relationships, grooming and more. Today: gay marriage.

Updated: May 17, 2013, - 01:23 PM

Restaurant news: Mason's, Thomas Keller, Belgian beer dinner, North Shore and Butcher & the Boar

At Hennepin and 6th Coming soon to the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts: Mason’s Restaurant and Barre (528...

Updated: May 16, 2013, - 11:38 AM

Kramarczuk's joins ranks of 'America's Classics'

Let the celebrating begin:"America's Classics" status is bestowed upon Minneapolis' own Kramarczuk's by the James Beard Foundation.

Updated: May 15, 2013, - 07:30 PM

Minnesota farmers markets beckon in new book

For her latest cookbook, author Beth Dooley finds inspiration aplenty in the state’s farmers markets.

Updated: May 15, 2013, - 03:14 PM

James Beard awards and the Minnesota contingent

A good time was had by the Minnesota contingent at the Oscars of the food world.

Updated: May 08, 2013, - 02:53 PM

American Swedish Institute puts culture on the menu

A restaurant can complement a museum’s vision while bringing in fresh faces — as the American Swedish Institute learned with its sizzling new cafe.

Updated: May 05, 2013, - 07:17 AM

Suburban dining, north by northwest

While it’s hardly a definitive reckoning, here are 10 independently owned reasons — from Elk River to Crystal and points in between — to look (and eat) beyond the chains that dominate the northwest suburban dining landscape.

Updated: May 03, 2013, - 05:59 PM

Withering Glance: Things We Love, Volume 17

Rick Nelson and Claude Peck dispense unasked-for advice about clothing, etiquette, culture, relationships, grooming and more. Today, things they love.

Updated: May 03, 2013, - 01:02 PM