In a few weeks from the writing of this post, James Beard Foundation will announce it's winners for Best Chef for 2024. The Great Lakes region in the awards includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, which puts Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland all in the same category. Tough sledding for the Great Lakes cities. Milwaukee (thankfully!) [...]
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Culinary Journeys – Madrid, Spain
Still Life with Game, Vegetables, and Fruit, SÁNCHEZ COTÁN, JUAN, 1602Copyright ©Museo Nacional del Prado This is the fourth of an ongoing series of posts on culinary journeys outside of the Great Lakes region, and the lessons they help reveal about our attempts to define our regional cuisine. Today, we go to Madrid, Spain. One [...]
Culinary Journeys – Seoul, South Korea
If you are following along on our culinary journey through South Korea, part 1 on Jeoju is here and part 2 on Mihwangsa Temple is here. This post is filled with far more visual imagery than our traditional posts, which is appropriate for our subject. Onward we go to the dizzying, dazzling, dream of Seoul, [...]
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