WWRC EVENTS
WWRC May Meeting: Terri Chaffer and Michele Phillips @ Love That Olive
Join us for a delightful evening of sampling, shopping, and stories at Maple Grove's gourmet food shop, Love That Olive, with store owner Terri Chaffer and co-host Michele Phillips of Bacon Fatte.
Learn all about Terri and Michele's businesses and how they have worked together to showcase this incredible shop!
Sample gourmet olive oils, taste Terri's recipes featuring Love That Olive products, enjoy charcuterie & cheese tasting with in-house cheese monger, Kerry Jerred of Forage to Fromage, and shop to your heart's desire!
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WWRC April Meeting: 30th Anniversary Party @ The Lynhall No. 2640
Join us for beautiful Spring Saturday brunch at The Lynhall to celebrate 30 years of Women Who Really Cook!
Enjoy a delicious spread of brunch pastries, quiches, and tartines alongside coffee, tea, or a mimosa from the luxurious mimosa bar!
Get solo or group photos in our themed photo booth and an exclusive first viewing of our new WWRC legacy video by Spoke612 Productions. It will be a day for the WWRC memory books!
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WWRC March Meeting: Kristen Olson & Kate Kearns @ Studio Q
Join us for networking brunch at the lovely Studio Q with co-hosts, Kristen Olson of Quincy Street Kitchen and Kate Kearns of Advokate Communications! Learn all about how to grow a food brand with strategy, content, and a bit of charm.
Enjoy a light breakfast spread of pastries, fruit, and coffee from local woman-owned staple, The Buttered Tin.
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WWRC February Meeting: Anita Nelson @ IN Food Marketing & Design
Join us for Happy Hour in the North Loop! Learn all about full-service marketing agency, IN Food Marketing and Design, and hear from President, Anita Nelson, about her journey as a business owner, and how the scope of food marketing has transformed over the last 29 years.
Happy Hour appetizers and beverages - including wine, beer and non-alcoholic options - will be offered. Don't miss out on a super fun evening highlighting the joy IN food!
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WWRC January Meeting: Marta Swenson & Jamie Albee @ Dunn Brothers Coon Rapids
What better way to ring in the New Year than celebrating the newest generation of WWRC members! Join us for a fun evening of networking at Dunn Brothers Coon Rapids.
We will hear from Owner/Franchisee, Marta Swenson, about her journey to becoming a business owner, what it's like to be a part of a franchise system, what makes Dunn Brothers unique within the coffee industry, and some of the ups and downs of running a busy coffee shop!
Long-time WWRC member and past WWRC Scholarship grantee, Jamie Albee, is a UofM student studying Business with hopes of opening her own bakery. She is currently perfecting her barista skills alongside Marta at Dunn Brothers, while continuing to practice her pastry and candy-making skills on the side.
Warm beverages and decadent sweets will be offered.
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WWRC November Meeting: Rachel Rubin & Martina Priadka @ ALTBurger
Join us for a networking happy hour at new Northeast restaurant, ALTBurger! We’ll hear from local food Consultant, Rachel Rubin, about how she channels her years of experience in the hospitality industry to help new restaurants across the Twin Cities find their footing. Martina Priadka, owner of ALTBurger, will share her journey from sommelier to restauranteur.
Sample Chef Derik Moran’s delicious vegetarian eats and enjoy a specialty cocktail (or two) at the cash bar!
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WWRC October Meeting: Shannon Richter & Lisa Patrin @ From Scratch Baking
Join us for a fun fall afternoon at From Scratch Baking & Coffee, nestled in the heart of Chanhassen! Nibble on baked goods and sip on warm beverages while we hear from co-hosts, Shannon Richter and Lisa Patrin, about how they each channeled their passion for food into inspiring careers in the food industry.
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WWRC September Meeting: Cecka Parks & Lachelle Cunningham @ City Food Studio
Join WWRC member Cecka Parks of Mpls Meat Collective alongside Lachelle Cunningham of City Food Studio for a morning of connection and culinary learning in the heart of South Minneapolis! We’ll get to tour the kitchen and production space, watch a chicken breakdown demo and hear how this powerhouse duo is dedicated to empowering local economy and community in their neighborhood.
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WWRC August Meeting: Sarah Spiegle of Urban Ventures
Come on out to the farm and help Urban Ventures celebrate 30 years of serving the south Minneapolis community! WWRC member and Urban Ventures Events & Volunteer Manager, Sarah Spiegle, has been serving the Urban Ventures mission to educate kids, strengthen their families and build healthy communities for more than 18 years.
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WWRC July Meeting: Emily Knudsen of Pleasant Grove Pizza Farm
Join us for a lovely afternoon of farm-fresh, wood-fired pizzas, wine, and the great outdoors! Hear the inspiring story of how Emily Knudsen's dream of owning a pizza farm became a reality. In this fun summer Friday night field trip, we'll be bussing down to Waseca, MN - about 50 minutes drive from the Twin Cities - for a great afternoon/evening of food, libations and (hopefully) sunshine!
Pizza samples, wine and other light snacks will be provided. Full size pizzas and additional beverages available for purchase, but feel free to BYOB for the bus ride!
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WWRC June Meeting: Joann Lynch of Del Sur Empanadas
At this fun summer meeting, we will hear from DelSur Empanadas owners, Nico and Diego, and learn how their Consultant and Small Business Strategist, Joann Lynch, brings their story to life!
Taste the flavors of Argentina by snacking on their famous empanadas. Swoon in the Argentine music and learn a bit about their culture. Leave with 10% off empanadas to go after the meeting!
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WWRC May Meeting: Co-hosts Zehorit Heilicher of Mideast to Midwest & Linda Quinn of Cafe Latte
“Food is a vehicle to creating community, to shaping memory and to sharing cultural richness.” - Zehorit Heilicher
Join Zehorit Heilicher of Mideast to Midwest at the iconic Cafe Latte, owned by WWRC co-host Linda Quinn as we celebrate coming together over incredible food!
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WWRC April Meeting: Abby Rakun of Northern Hospitality & Co. @ Mill Valley Market
Join us as we learn all about WWRC host, Culinary Creative and Restauranteur Abby Rakun! Abby and her husband and partner, Mike Rakun, run Northern Hospitality and Co restaurant group. After the hit of their first business endeavor Mill Valley Kitchen, Mike and Abby have continued to open new restaurant concepts in Minnesota including Benedict’s in Wayzata and Rochester, Mill Valley Market at Theo Wirth Park, and Longtrees in Alexandria.
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WWRC March Meeting: Minnesota Cooks at Farmers Kitchen + Bar
Our connection to the food we eat is more important than ever! Join WWRC Member Hosts, Katie Cannon and Claudine Arndt of Minnesota Cooks, at MN Farmer's Union's Farmers Kitchen + Bar to learn how Minnesota Cooks shines a spotlight on the important role that consumers play in building and maintaining a healthy local food system. Enjoy bites prepared by Farmers Kitchen +Bar’s talented restaurant team and feel free to stay after to enjoy their delicious breakfast or lunch menu!
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WWRC February Meeting: Foodist Films Kitchen Studio
Tour Foodist Film's Kitchen Studio and get a window into their process of creating original food content for food brands. We'll hear from WWRC member and Founder/Owner of Foodist Films, Alex Connett, sample some creations from in-house culinary director and food stylist, and learn how this agency makes food brands come to life through culinary expertise and video marketing!
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WWRC January Meeting: Peace & Purpose with Elevate North & Peace Coffee
Kick off your 2023 with peace and purpose! Join us and co-hosts Megan Tardiff of Peace Coffee and Rachel Kolstad of Elevate North Coaching & Consulting for coffee & an Elevating Your Business & Life workshop. While sipping on delicious Peace coffee we will work together to set you and your career up for success in 2023!
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WWRC December Meeting: Holiday Mingle @ West End Artisan Market
Join WWRC for a Festive Holiday Mingle at Tami Cabrera's West End Artisan Market for holiday shopping, wine & nibbles, and a Cork & Fork fundraiser! Cocktail attire welcome.
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WWRC October Meeting: Stephanie Hansen @ Coconut Whisk Café
Save the date! Stephanie Hansen is co-hosting with Coconut Whisk Owner Bella Lam. More info regarding the meeting and the link to RSVP coming soon!
WWRC September Meeting: Abundant Kitchen
Save the date! Join Becki Melvie owner of Abundant Kitchen, kitchen store with 2 locations, cooking school and Saturday crepes. Becki will offer freshly cooked crepes during the meeting. Learn about her past culinary tour to Ireland and upcoming trip to Italy. Every member who attends will receive a signed Abundant Kitchen cookbook.
WWRC August Meeting: Bellecour Bakery @ Cooks of Crocus Hill
Join us for a Butter Croissant Breakfast Sandwich cooking demo at Bellecour Bakery @ Cooks of Crocus Hill, North Loop with WWRC Alumni and Sue Z. Award Recipients, Elaine Delima, Diane Moua and Jaime Albee.
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WWRC July Meeting: Minnesota Horse and Hunt Club
Save the date! More info about the meeting and link to RSVP coming soon!
WWRC June Meeting: Sawatdee (Rescheduled from April)
Come join us and WWRC host, Supenn Harrison, at Sawatdee & Zushiya of Maple Grove for an exciting evening of networking and food sampling!
WWRC May Meeting: Bridgeman's Ice Cream Parlor
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WWRC March Meeting: The Good Acre
Join us at The Good Acre food hub in Falcon Heights to learn about all this amazing nonprofit does to support the local food ecosystem!
WWRC February Meeting: Red Stag Supperclub Happy Hour
Long time WWRC member, Kim Bartmann, will host us at Red Stag Supperclub for a happy hour meeting in the private Clubroom. Featuring a cash bar and a selection of apps from talented head chef, Joe Holmes, this will be an meeting you don’t want to miss!
WWRC January Meeting: Wellness in the New Year
Join hosts Anna Klimmek and Kate LaBrosse as they help us kick off 2022 with a virtual meeting celebrating health and wellness!
Anna Klimmek
Anna is a health coach and personal chef who teaches people to eat for their body in a way that works for their life. As a Le Cordon Blue grad, she has over 18 years of culinary experience. Her education as a Health Coach with advanced study in Hormonal and Gut Health from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition guide how she cooks and approaches food and gives her a unique perspective on the relationship between cooking, food, health and life.
Anna’s mission is to empower people to live their best lives in the body that they are in. Happy Food MN offer’s programs that create self-empowerment, not only with food but with life choices. She is a personal chef and cooks for people with autoimmune disorders and food sensitivities. She does one-on-one health coaching, cooking classes and Healthy Living and Eating Workshops that teach you, “it doesn’t have to be hard to live healthy.” My superpower is that I make healthy living, tasty fun and easy!
Kate LaBrosse
Kate LaBrosse is a Natural Products Industry expert offering sales management and brand strategy consulting to both emerging and legacy companies. She is also an Amazon Bestselling Author and Motivational Speaker. She is passionate about furthering the reach of the natural industry across all sales channels and demographics and is dedicated to helping more people live into their highest potential, holistically healing themselves and living with purpose because she knows the impact that just one person can have when they are doing what they’re meant to be doing in the specific way they’re meant to be doing it. Before launching her own company in 2019, Kate worked as a national buyer for NCG, a national sales manager for GoLive Probiotics and was a brand manager and national director of conventional at Presence Marketing.
MinnyRow Market - Women Who Really Cook Member Meeting
Join us for the WWRC December meeting at MinnyRow Market! Enjoy appetizers, lunch and a sweet treat while we learn all about the Market, and the story of owners, Dana and Peter! You’ll also have a chance to do some shopping with a 10% discount for WWRC members only!
October Meeting and Cookbook Drive -St. Paul College
Join us for our lunch! Our October meeting is at City View Grille, a restaurant operated by the Saint Paul College Culinary Arts program.
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The Food Building: September Member Meeting
We are excited to announce that in September we will be returning to in-person member meetings!!
Join us for our first ‘on location’ meeting since early 2020! Light appetizers will be provided by the Food Building and there will be a cash bar for adult beverages. Please bring a mask to wear while indoors.
The Food Building is a local, artisan food production hotspot in NE Minneapolis. Home to Baker's Field Flour & Bread, Red Table Meat, Alemar Cheese, and other makers on the forefront of utilizing the highest quality ingredients from local farms.
Kieran's Kitchen, located in the building, showcases the craft of Food Building's in-house artisans and other local like-minded producers in our restaurant, market, and event spaces.
Jill Holter, WWRC Board Member, works in Brand Development for the Food Building Makers, and is delighted to host the meeting along with Food Building founder Kieran Folliard. At the meeting, you'll also meet Angela Nooraga, GM of Kieran's Kitchen and former WWRC scholarship recipient during her culinary school days. The meeting will include an introduction to the Food Bldg brands and their amazing products, and you'll learn about the slow, thoughtful process that makes each of our brands and their products unique, and uniquely delicious.
This meeting is available to members-only first, then we will open it up to all potential members. Get your tickets today to secure your spot!
Forever Green Kitchen: A Cooks Guide to Regenerative Ingredients
Join Constance Carlson and Beth Dooley as they discuss University of Minnesota’s Forever Green Initiative and the role they’ve both played in its success. You’ll also have a chance to try some of the wonderful things they’re growing with the Perennial Kitchen Box, see below for details!
Beth Dooley
Beth Dooley spent two years listening, learning and experimenting with the new crops in research through the University of Minnesota's innovative Forever Green Initiative. The crops in this research program are proving to be important new "tools" for farmers to protect water and soil, sequester carbon, access new economic opportunities and even support social well-being.
Constance Carlson
Connie Carlson works on supply chain and market development of Forever Green crops, working with industry, growers, entrepreneurs and culinary professionals to develop the processing, application and demand for these crops. Together, Dooley and Carlson will share how they work together, what they have learned, why crops such as Kernza, hybrid hazelnuts, elderberries and winter camelina are the future of food and how you can be part of this important work. They will highlight how you can source and cook with the heritage grains, nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables, and newer, less familiar ingredients that provide delicious and healthful ingredients as well as ecological services.
Perennial Kitchen Box
$82.95 Value
WWRC members get $20 off!
Use code WWRC for discount
Enclosed in this box are exciting new ingredients that are nutritional, taste great, and also provide incredible benefits for the Minnesota farmers, our natural resources and our rural communities.
KERNZA® Grain and Flour
Kernza ® is the perennial grain available for US farmers and eaters. Perennials are plants that are planted once and continue to grow year after year, which reduces the need for farmers to till their soil and buy seed and fertilizer. The deep roots of Kernza (sometimes they grow 10 feet!) keep nitrates out of drinking water and prevents soil erosion. Beth Dooley will share how she works with Kernza and how it's sweet nutty flavor is making it's way into beer, bread, crackers, cookies and much more. Perennial Pantry, a start-up company in Burnville, MN, is the first company to source, package and sell Kernza grain and flour in the country. You can order their products online or shop Lakewinds Co-op's three locations. More store locations will be announced in the upcoming months. Perennial Pantry website: https://perennial-pantry.com/ 14oz bags: $9.75; bulk packaging available. Contact Perennial Pantry for pricing and information.
Hybrid Hazelnut Oil and Flavored Snacks
The hazelnuts featured in the flavored snack packets are from the only nut crop available to upper midwest farmers. They are a natural crossing between the native varieties that grow in the understory of Minnesota forests and the European varieties currently available on the commercial market. As a long-lived, woody perennial, hazelnuts provide many environmental benefits, including preventing erosion, protecting water and providing habitat. The delicious, flavored nuts are processed and packaged by the American Hazelnut Company (AHC), a grower-owned business based in Gay's Mills, Wisconsin. The slightly nutty, buttery oil is also from the AHC and is pressed from combination of midwest nuts and nuts sourced from growers in Oregon. You can find oil, flour, unflavored and flavored nuts on the AHC website or at select co-ops in the Twin Cities. American Hazelnut Company: https://www.americanhazelnutcompany.com/ Oil (8oz): $15.95; Flour (16oz): $15.95, Unflavored Kernel (8 or 16 oz): $13.95 - $18.75; Flavored Kernels (HazelSnackers: 4/4oz packages, $19.95) Bulk packaging and pricing available for all products. Contact AHC for more information.
Perennial Kitchen: Simple Recipes for a Healthy Future cookbook
Recipes and resources connect thoughtfully grown, gathered, and prepared ingredients to a healthy future—for food, farming, and humankindIn The Perennial Kitchen, James Beard Award–winning author Beth Dooley provides the context of food’s origins, along with delicious recipes, nutrition information, and tips for smart sourcing. More than a farm-to-table cookbook, this book expands the definition of “local food” to embrace regenerative agriculture, the method of growing small and large crops with ecological services. $27.95
WWRC June Virtual Meeting
Join us for the Women Who Really Cook June meeting with Hosts, Michelle Mazarra, Tasya Kellen and Kyle Oglesby! They’ll talk about their businesses and you’ll have a chance to sample their goods with the Father’s Day Gift Box, which is perfect gift for a dad or yourself!