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'Taste of NFL's' Heaping Homecoming Helps Kick Hunger

Nearly three decades after the inaugural Taste of the NFL debuted in Minneapolis in 1992, the “Party With a Purpose” came home to Minnesota.

On the eve of Super Bowl LII, hundreds of guests wined and dined for a great cause and, together with the season-long Kick Hunger Challenge, raised more than $1 million to support hunger relief across the country.

“To quote another Minnesotan, ‘There’s no place like home,’ ” said Taste of the NFL founder Wayne Kostroski. “This is really terrific. I knew that Minnesotans were really excited and pumped up about coming back, but I didn’t realize the intensity and the size of that.