Beatrice Ojakangas collaborates on fundraiser menu

Beatrice Ojakangas and a handful of local food and drink pros from Chester Creek Cafe, Duluth Grill, New Scenic Cafe, Northern Waters Restaurant and Vikre Distillery have collaborated on a menu for a fundraiser benefiting the LSS Crisis Nursery.
Homemade with Bea takes place from 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday at The Kitchi Gammi Club, 831 E. Superior St. Tickets are $100 and available at lssmn.org/duluthcrisisnurserybenefit or (218) 302-6837.
The event will include, among other menu items, gravlax, golden carrot salad, three meat stew and Katja’s birthday sponge cake with cloudberry filling.
Ojakangas will also be on hand to sign copies of her recent memoir-cookbook “Homemade: Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food,” which tells the story of her life in rural Minnesota to her career as a food writer.