Five Courses. Foraged Flavors. Curated Pairings. Original Art.
Join private chef Kara Super Peterson for an intimate culinary journey where locally foraged ingredients and thoughtfully selected pairings meet the visual art and personal stories of featured artist Eric Twait. It’s an evening designed to engage every sense.
The Forager's Table is an upscale culinary journey designed to celebrate the connection between visual and culinary arts. Guests will enjoy a curated five-course menu with thoughtfully selected alcohol pairings, each course foraged from the land and inspired by the stories and emotions reflected in our current gallery exhibition. Featured artist Eric Twait will share the inspiration and personal journey behind his work, offering guests a deeper connection to the art surrounding them.
The evening will be led by nationally-traveling private chef Kara Super Peterson with more than 26 years of experience in the culinary arts. Known for transforming locally sourced ingredients into extraordinary dining experiences, each dish is crafted with intention, creativity, and heart. Kara has taken special care in harvesting, foraging, and working with local farmers to bring you a memorable meal to enjoy at her table.
With limited seating, The Forager’s Table is an evening meant to be shared, savored, and remembered—a chance to slow down, gather around the table, and experience good food, beautiful art, and the people and stories that bring them together.
Tickets: $125 | Seating: Limited | Ages: 21+
The Menu
Passed Starters | White Wine Pairing
Crispy Potato Pavé
Whipped Truffle Ricotta | Beltrami State Forest Chicken of the Woods | Thyme Oil
Wild Rice Walleye Cake
Preserved Lemon Crème Fraîche | Fresh Dill
Featuring a curated white wine selection
Housemade Focaccia & Cultured Butters
Persimmon + Wild Blueberry
Miso + Maple
Hatch Green Chili
Salad | Red Wine Pairing
Arugula | Radicchio | Shaved Parmesan
Brûléed Figs | Toasted Pecan Vinaigrette
Featuring a curated red wine selection
Entrée
Fennel-Spiced Pork Tenderloin
Brown Butter Sage Mashed Potatoes | Maple + Sumac Roasted Carrots
Port Plum Sauce
Featuring a curated red wine selection
Dessert | Aperitif Pairing
Deconstructed Apple Tarte Tatin
Spruce Tip Cream
Featuring a curated after-dinner aperitif
Dietary Accommodations
Your dining experience is important to us. With advance notice, we are happy to accommodate food allergies, making every effort to preserve the flavors, presentation, and spirit of the evening. Please reach out to whitney@warroadriverplace.org (218-986-0001) regarding dietary accommodations.
Meet the Chef
KARA SUPER-PETERSON
For more than 26 years, Kara Super Peterson has built a diverse culinary career as a chef, private chef, recipe creator, developer, and forager. A graduate of the Moorhead Culinary Program, Kara began her career at the historic Grand View Lodge, working as a chef at the fine-dining restaurant Sherwood Forest. She later moved into catering in Minneapolis with Bon Appétit before returning to Northern Minnesota, where her love of the outdoors and local food continues to inspire her work.
Today, Kara creates memorable culinary experiences centered around fresh, local ingredients, creativity, and community. She believes food is about more than what’s on the plate—it’s about creating moments, telling stories, and bringing people together.
Kara also develops signature and shareable recipes for lodges, resorts, restaurants, and businesses throughout Northern Minnesota, including Borderland Lodge, Gunflint Lodge, Bluefin Bay, Northern Waters Smokehaus, Vikre Distillery, and many more.
Her philosophy is simple: fresh, local, creative, and community.
“Being a chef allows me to create moments. It allows me to bring people together. It allows me to turn ingredients into something that makes someone pause, smile, and feel at home.”
Meet the Artist
ERIC TWAIT
Eric Twait grew up on a farm in Iowa, spending long stretches of time alone, making things — drawing, building, tinkering — long before he understood that art would become a necessity rather than a choice. For years his work was quiet: landscapes, places he'd been, paintings that were really just a way of paying attention and staying grounded.
In 2023, his wife Maria was diagnosed with cancer. He moved into survival mode — caregiving, holding on to every moment, his studio gathering dust. On Christmas Eve, she died. When he returned to the easel, his art took a sudden turn inward.
What came out was words — handwritten, layered, rewritten, some staying legible, others dissolving into color and texture. Lyrics overheard from the stereo while he worked became something closer to letters: to her, to himself, to the silence she left behind. That body of work became Letters to the Void — paintings that don't try to resolve grief or make it understandable, but instead function as records of staying with what hurts long enough to let it change shape.
The series has continued to evolve since — opening from grief into doubt, hope, balance, and love. Eric now splits his time between these text-based abstracts and painterly landscapes of Minnesota lakes, national parks, and beyond. He lives and works in the Brainerd/Baxter area and is sharing his art around Minnesota this year, including this exhibition at Warroad Riverplace.