Odd Duck in Milwaukee, WI is an absolutely wonderful little restaurant. If this were a restaurant review, I would gush about the diversity of the menu, the inventiveness on display in nearly every dish, the brilliant execution on each small plate presentation. But this is not a restaurant review so our focus here is on [...]
Tag: Wisconsin
Definitions and the Occasional Odd Duck
This post will be a bit longer and more esoteric than many of our posts as we attempt to lay-out a fundamental problem at the very core of our efforts here. A recent video discussion between Kyle Cherek and Ardent’s chef/owner Justin Carlisle was featured here recently as something of a raison d'être for this [...]
New Restaurant Added – Ardent, Milwaukee WI
A recent review of Justin Carlisle's new venture, Ardent in Milwaukee, WI, Carol Deptolla of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel expressed her appreciation this way: "Ardent's inaugural menu in particular said Wisconsin to me, with some dishes that evoked supper clubs, if their chefs had put in time at the Greenbrier in West Virginia, Gramercy Tavern [...]
New Purveyors Added
We're happy to announce that we have added three new sources to our Purveyors page, two processed meat sources and one for smoked fish. In Port Washington, WI there is a small, white storefront tucked back off the main street, where you can find a variety of Great Lakes area fish that have been brined [...]
Food Lovers Emerge – Toward a Great Lakes Cuisine
For me, there is a visceral thrill to see an idea, a concept, a thought of my own echoed by another. That “kindred-spirit” feeling fills me a wave of genuine joy. As I sat waiting for a client meeting at a local professional office, I had just such a feeling. The catalyst was the cover [...]
Great Lakes Cuisine 