The cheese that started the experiments with Grilled Cheese Sandwiches - Carr Valley's Menage. If you missed them, here are Grilled Cheese #1 and Grilled Cheese #2. Enjoying the Menage before dinner one evening, the complex, grassy flavors combined with the creamy texture inspired this thought - What would this be like as a grilled [...]
Tag: Beer
New Restaurants Added – Grand Rapids, MI
Let me tell you this – the Backwoods Bastard is definitely one of the finest brews I have ever had. Complex, lingering, hauntingly good. It just may be the best brew in Grand Rapids, MI, and given that Grand Rapids has been named Beer City USA in a poll run by the guru of home [...]
Goat Cheese Plate
From clockwise from bottom-left: Cardona from Carr Valley in La Valle, WI, Evalon from LaClare Farms in Chilton, WI, Landjaeger with Door County Cherries from Zuber's in Monroe, WI, and Eleven Brothers from Boston Post Dairy in Enosburg Falls, VT. The grassy, herbaceous flavors of goat cheeses are complemented by the sweet and salty counterpoint [...]
Of Festivals and Fun
We will not often highlight current events, as the ambition of this website is to promote a larger understanding of an emergent culinary movement, not simply what is currently popular. Yet a number of events occurring the next few weeks are great opportunities to get out and experience the ethno-culinary inspiration that underpins Great Lakes [...]
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