Indigenous Food Lab ushers in a new era of Native visibility at Minnesota State Fair

The most local food at this year’s State Fair can be found near the back of the International Bazaar of the Great Minnesota Get-Together. The Indigenous Food Lab at the Taste of the Midtown Global Market booth has a debut menu that earned a coveted spot on the official new fair foods list. A mixture of nixtamal and locally harvested wild rice is topped with a tart wild berry wóžapi sauce and offered with either bison meatballs or sweet potato dumplings (and an optional crunch from a spiced cricket-and-seed topping).

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