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Sharyn Jackson

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Covering food/drink/etc @StarTribune. Alum: @DMRegister, @USATODAY, @villagevoice, @columbiajourn. Golden Girl. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈 sjackson@startribune.com
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The 5 best new-to-us things our food writers ate at the fair this week

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By Sharyn Jackson Verified, Raphael Brion Verified, Nancy Ngo Verified
| The Minnesota Star Tribune Verified
A rare exercise in simplicity: the humble but mightily fresh cream puff at the Minnesota State Fair. (Joy Summers/The Minnesota Star Tribune) Comment Gift Share Because I spent most of my formative years in northern Minnesota, my childhood recollection of a State Fair visit is fuzzy. I do have a distinct memory, though, of my father trooping us to the cream puff stand.
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Why the Minnesota State Fair’s cocktails don’t contain hard liquor

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By Sharyn Jackson Verified
| The Minnesota Star Tribune Verified
Why the Minnesota State Fair’s cocktails don’t contain hard liquor Drinks inspired by mules, spritzes and old fashioneds are on the 2026 lineup, but their alcohol comes from hard seltzer, beer or wine. The Espressotini served at the Blue Barn is a frozen seltzer with not a drop of hard liquor. (Leila Navidi/The Minnesota Star Tribune) Comment Gift Share A Watermelon Mule. A Hugo Spritz. An Espressotini. An Ol’ Fashioned Hard Seltzer.
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What I learned about life from 'Dirty Dancing' summer camp

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By Sharyn Jackson Verified
| MSN Verified
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner,” the famous movie line goes, but for my first meal at a theme weekend celebrating “Dirty Dancing,” that's exactly where I was seated. My server insisted it was one of the best seats in the house, on an enclosed porch in the dining room of Mountain Lake Lodge, a complex of cabins and cozy communal spaces in Virginia's Appalachian mountains where much of the movie was filmed.
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