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Joan Siegel was the restaurant critic at the Minneapolis Star (and later the Minneapolis Star and Tribune) from 1980 to 1984, and her work resonates with contemporary diners.
Nicole Ploumen Hvidsten is the Star Tribune's senior Taste editor. In past journalistic lives she was a reporter, copy editor and designer — sometimes all at once — and has yet to find a cookbook she doesn't like.
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