The weirdest trend of the last year has been the way so many of Minnesota's name-brand, swoon-inducing, best-reviewed chefs just vanished into thin air for months and months at a stretch. Where do they go? Whom do they feed? Wasn't it weird the way Steven Brown was totally MIA for like a year, and then just popped up at Levain, but that meant that Stewart Woodman disappeared? And where is Lisa Carlson? And how is it that Patrick Atanalian, who had such a devoted and admiring following, who... More »
