RaeBeat Records<\/a> says she wanted to showcase Minnesota\u2019s music community while highlighting the fact that most of its members do a lot more than just playing music, producing records, or booking shows. She wanted to provide a different kind of insight into the musicians here in town\u2014a sense for what they like, not just what they play\u2014and bring two different art forms together, all while having a little bit of fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cI love to cook, I love to eat, I love music, I love our music community, and I kept thinking, \u2018Why can\u2019t we combine these?\u2019\u201d Baumgart says. \u201cEverything seems to be so categorized these days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Baumgart calls A Musician\u2019s Menu<\/em> a recipe book, not unlike the community-sourced, spiral-bound booklets you\u2019d find from Lutheran churches and cultural groups. She assembled the collection by reaching out to members of her own community, often approaching people at shows or calling them up to say, \u201cHey, want to contribute something?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\nEvery recipe in the book is from someone who either \u201cis or has been\u201d involved in the music community, as Baumgart puts it\u2014some have left the Twin Cities and others have passed on. It\u2019s a personal book, filled with her writing and memories of being involved in the music community over the years.\u00a0And it features entirely original photography by Paul Irmiter with design by Tod Foley.<\/p>\n
Many local artists she already knew were amazing cooks, and while some recipes are for meals that people cook regularly, others are a family recipe or something special. \u201cJim Walsh, for example, gave us his Walsh Family Dessert,\u201d Baumgart says, and Randy Broughten of Gear Daddies provides his tried and true stroganoff recipe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2026And then, on the other end of the spectrum, you\u2019ll get recipes like Hamburger Cupcakes from Jon Clifford of HiFi Hair and Records in Loring Park, or Craig Teiken\u2019s Krautsadillas\u2014yes, that\u2019s a quesadilla with sauerkraut, and Baumgart says it\u2019s \u201cquite fantastic.\u201d The recipes are divided into Opening Acts (apps, salads, etc.), Headliners (entrees) and After Party (desserts).<\/p>\n<\/figure>\nNow, she has not herself cooked through all the recipes that appear in A Musician\u2019s Menu<\/em>, so you\u2019ll have to give those meaty cupcakes a try for yourself. Baumgart says she trusted the folks who submitted their ideas and wanted the foods to reflect who the contributors were as people. In fact, part of the fun of putting the book together for her was getting to know its contributors in a new light.<\/p>\nThe recipes aren\u2019t only provided by musicians, but by the producers, bookers, stagehands, and more who make up the local music scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA scene doesn\u2019t just happen, people make it happen,\u201d she says. \u201cI decided it isn\u2019t really just about the musicians, it\u2019s about the community that makes it all happen.\u201d So while guitarists, bassists, songwriters, and yes, even drummers contributed to the book, it also includes recipes from people like Doug Myren, an entertainment attorney who owns the Silver Dome Ballroom in Wisconsin, and Mike Owens, owner of Blackberry Way Records.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
And even with more than 50 recipes, \u201cI was only able to get a fraction of what exists in this book,” says Baumgart.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hey, there\u2019s always time to release a follow-up. Just ask any local musician.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Musician\u2019s Menu: Recipes That Rock by the Minnesota Music Community is available <\/em>online<\/em><\/a> and at local shops including Lucky Cat Records and HiFi Hair and Records.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source racketmn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What made Edie Baumgart want to put together a cookbook featuring recipes from more than 50 members of the local music scene? \u201cWell, I\u2019m insane, so there\u2019s that,\u201d she laughs.\u00a0 But for Baumgart, the impetus for A Musician\u2019s Menu: Recipes That Rock by the Minnesota Music Community, goes deeper. The president of Minneapolis\u2019s RaeBeat Records […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2175811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/A-New-Cookbook-Celebrates-the-Artists-and-Stagehands-and-Engineers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175812,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175810\/revisions\/2175812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2175811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}