About Beth

I have been writing about the local food scene and teaching cooking for the past 25 years.  You can visit my website, Beth-Dooley.com, to learn more about me.

Co-author with Lucia Watson of Savoring the Seasons of the Northern Heartland (University of Minnesota Press), a James Beard Award nominee, my six book titles include, The Heartland (Williams-Sonoma, 2001) and Prevention’s Quick and Healthy Dinners (Rodale, 1997). I’m currently working on a new book, Seasonal Appetites: Cooking in the Heartland Today, due out in 2011 (University of Minnesota Press).

My column, “One Great Dish,” appears weekly in the Star Tribune’s Taste Section and I am a restaurant critic and associate editor for Mpls./St. Paul Magazine. I also write for Fine Cooking, The Mix, Midwest Home, City Pages, and North American Review. I have appeared on Lynne Rossetto Kasper’s “Splendid Table,” radio show and am regularly on KSTP-TV’s ON-LIVE.

I teach at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Cooks of Crocus Hill and was the Language Arts/Cooking instructor in The Lake Country Land School Junior High Montessori program where I designed a Culinary-Language Arts curriculum. I chair the board of the Mississippi River Fund and serve on the advisory boards of The Youth Farm and Market Project, and Philadelphia Community Farm.

I live with my husband Kevin, my three boys, Matt, Kip and Tim (and yorkie-bijon mutt), in Minneapolis and on Madeline Island.