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Experience Grand Rapids' Live Music Scene This Summer

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Bonus - Q & A with Chef Angus Campbell

Try Campbell's recipes for goat cheese fritters, shrimp crostini and summer fruit salad. All have been hits at Heritage Restaurant, run by Grand Rapids Community College's Secchia Institute for Culinary Education.

Campbell recommends Carlson-Arbogast Farm (dried beans), David Delski's Prime Meats (specialty butcher and sausage maker), DogWood Farm Dancing Goat Creamery (goat cheese), Founders Brewing (RateBeer rank: 4th in world), Fulton Street Farmers Market (oldest and largest), Grassfields Cheese (cheese and meat), MadCap Coffee (buys direct from farmers, roasts onsite), Marie Catrib's restaurant (local, vegan, gluten free), Martha's Vineyard (wine, liquor, deli), and Okemos Shrimp Farm Market (sustainably-raised in Michigan).