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  Where to Eat Sheboygan-Style Brat Burgers

  The bratwurst capital of the world likes its sausage in burger form

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  Cincinnati’s West Side Might Be Its Best Side

  Why one East Sider is crossing I-75

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  The Three Summer Mushrooms You Should Know

  Some of our greatest-hits mushrooms appear during our hottest months

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  Our Loneliest Native Fruit

  One more on pawpaws, featuring endozoochory and the woolly mammoth

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  How (and Why) John Carruthers Makes Tavern-Style Pizza

  A comprehensive guide

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  How to Make “Perpetual Vinegar”

  A year of gardening in a bottle

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  A Michigan Pie Paradise

  The joys of Crane's Pie Pantry in Fennville

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  Salumi with a Midwestern Pedigree

  A Q&A with Chris Eley of Smoking Goose Meatery

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  What I Learned In Twenty-Three Years as a Midwestern Food Writer

  "I was interested in what we had, not what we didn’t have."

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  Booyah Tastes Better After a Few Days

  Like all good things, it takes time

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  The Midwest’s Best Tavern-Style Pizza is in Wisconsin

  At Wells Brothers, not much has changed since the 1950s

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