A year ago, the crunch and tang of home-cured quick pickles became an inspiration. That was fitting, as the man that had prepared them has been an inspiration for my appreciation of the growing Great Lakes Cuisine trend. Chef Jason Gorman prepared pickled carrots, radishes, and turnips as part of a variety of small tasting samples [...]
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Great Lakes Cheese Plate
Cheese production is one of the great traditions of Great Lakes Cuisine. The immense amount of factory produced cheese from the "Dairy State" is merely an outgrowth of a much older tradition of farmer produced cheeses. Cheese at the most basic level is a method to preserve milk and this preservation tradition is very much [...]