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June 14, 2010
Perennial Plate
The Perennial Plate is a two-time James Beard Award winning online weekly documentary series dedicated to socially responsible and adventurous eating.  Chef and Activist, Daniel Klein and Filmmaker Mirra Fine are traveling the world exploring the wonders, complexities and stories behind the ever more connected global food system.

Season One took place over a calendar year in Minnesota where every Monday for 52 weeks, the duo released short films that followed the culinary, agricultural and hunting explorations of Daniel Klein.  Hope Creamery was the subject in Episode 13.

The Perennial Plate Episode 13: Hope Butter from The Perennial Plate on Vimeo.

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Common Roots Cafe visit in 2009

Common Roots Cafe opened in 2007 in the Uptown area (25th & Lyndale), they serve good food made from scratch. 

The kitchen and bakery use local and organic ingredients -- on average the ingredients are 50.2% local (within 250 miles of the cafe). This number goes up in the summer growing season, but all year long they serve local meat, dairy, and flour. 

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Some of the articles about us that you'll find on the web:

• Locally Sourced: Home Creamery
     by Rick Nelson, StarTribune - Dec. 4, 2013
  
• Hope Creamery
     by Meredith Hart, Community of Plate - Aug. 25, 2009

• The 2009 Silver Whisk Award Winners
     by Susan Pagani, Heavy Table - Dec. 16, 2009

• Butter--Making Butter the Traditional Way
     by Daniel Klein, Cooking up a Story 
  
• Hope Creamery has Ellendale ties
     by Katie Johnson, Albert Lea Tribune - Oct. 11, 2007
  
• Steele County's last butter maker churns it out the old fashioned way
     by Greta Cunningham, MPR - Oct. 1, 2006
  
• Hope Creamery still makes  butter one pound at a time
     by Jason Kroeker, Owatonna People's Press - June 21, 2006

• Wedge Community Co-op: Hope Creamery
  

Listed in:

• The Local Difference: Hope Creamery (Kowalski's Market)
  
• Eastside Food Cooperative
  
• Eat Well Guide