Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie [electronic resource] : Midwestern Writers on Food

ISBN:

9780803248557

Title:

Author:

Wolff, Peggy.

Personal Author:

Wolff, Peggy.

Publication Information:

Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska Paperback, 2013.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Midwestern Staples; In the Midwest, It's Meatloaf; Field Trips; Easter Island Almondine; The Sandwich That Is Chicago; Cincinnati Five-Way Chili: Still Legal; Corn in Heaven; Let Them Eat Pâté; High on the Hog; The Chef and the Farmer; Recipe: Goat Cheese Panna Cotta with Caramelized Figs; Distant Cultures; Art's Lunch; A Tale of Two Tamales; Recipe: Beef Brisket, Savory Cherry Compote,and Jalapeño Cheese Tamales; Le Dog, Ann Arbor, Michigan; The Night of the Rhubarb Kuchen; Recipes: Rhubarb Kram

Rhubarb Kuchenwith Almond MeringueThe Black Migration; Eat Now; The Door County Fish Boil; Recipes: White Gull Inn Door County Cherry Pie; White Gull Inn Fish Boil Recipe for Home Cooks; Holidays, Fairs, and Events; Thrill Food; Under the Checkered Flag; Bicentennial Pie; So You'll Diet Tomorrow; Thanksgiving Dinner; Recipe: Thanksgiving Stuffi ngwith Cast-Iron Skillet Corn Bread; A Full Belly; The Tam-O-Shanter, Lincoln, Nebraska; What Was Served; Tomorrowland; I'll Eat Columbus; On Cider, Cornmeal, and Comfort; Recipe: Buttermilk Doughnuts with Cider Glaze; The Midwestern Sweet Tooth

The Great American Pie ExpeditionRecipe: Fudge; The Old Sweetness; The Little Cake Pan That Could; Recipes: Chocolate Pistachio Cake; Ella Helfrich'sTunnel of Fudge Cake; When a Pie Is More Than a Pie; Recipe: Mildred Jackson's Lemon-y Cream Pie; Source Acknowledgments

Subject Term:

Authors, American -- Middle west -- Miscellanea.

Cooking -- Middle west.

Cooking, American -- Midwestern style.

Food habits -- Middle west -- Anecdotes.

International cooking -- Anecdotes.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2013

Publication Information:

Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska Paperback, 2013.

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Summary

With its corn by the acre, beef on the hoof, Quaker Oats, and Kraft Mac n' Cheese, the Midwest eats pretty well and feeds the nation on the side. But there's more to the midwestern kitchen and palate than the farm food and sizable portions the region is best known for beyond its borders. It is to these heartland specialties, from the heartwarming to the downright weird, that Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie invites the reader.

The volume brings to the table an illustrious gathering of thirty midwestern writers with something to say about the gustatory pleasures and peculiarities of the region. In a meditation on comfort food, Elizabeth Berg recalls her aunt's meatloaf. Stuart Dybek takes us on a school field trip to a slaughtering house, while Peter Sagal grapples with the ethics of paté. Parsing Cincinnati five-way chili, Robert Olmstead digresses into questions of Aztec culture. Harry Mark Petrakis reflects on owning a South Side Chicago lunchroom, while Bonnie Jo Campbell nurses a sweet tooth through a fudge recipe in the Joy of Cooking and Lorna Landvik nibbles her way through the Minnesota State Fair. These are just a sampling of what makes Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie --with its generous helpings of laughter, culinary confession, and information--an irresistible literary feast.

Author Notes

Peggy Wolff has written on food and food culture for publications including the Chicago Tribune , Los Angeles Times , Hartford Courant , and Orlando Sentinel . She is the food editor for REALIZE Magazine .

Reviews (3)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Food writer Wolff, who grew up in the Midwest and still resides there, has amassed a brilliant collection of Heartland food stories. The contents of the book range from essays by novelists (Elizabeth Berg, Jaquelyn Mitchard, and others) to works by newspaper columnists, cookbook authors, and chefs. Some are humorous; others are nostalgic, or are filled with fascinating historical facts and tidbits. The collection is organized into four major parts: "Midwestern Staples" (including an in-depth look at Chicago's Italian beef sandwiches by Michael Stern and an ode to the fried pork tenderloin sandwich by Jon Yates); "Distant Cultures," in which Minnesotan Anne Dimock and others examine the foods that arrived with various immigrants (in her case, rhubarb, a German-Scandinavian dessert essential for pie, kuchen, and kram); "Holidays, Fairs, and Events" (readers will be amply sated by Lorna Landvik's culinary tour of the Minnesota State Fair); "A Full Belly" (including Douglas Bauer's view of his mother's hard work in her Iowa farm kitchen) and "The Midwestern Sweet Tooth" (Bundt cakes, fudge, and beyond, as in "When a Pie Is More Than a Pie" by cookbook writer Jeremy Jackson). The 30 essays and 14 recipes (a portion of which are reprints) bring the flavors of the Midwest vividly to life; but, more importantly, they dig deeply into the universal connections between food, family, time, and place. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

With its acres upon acres of cornfields and orchards, the Midwest ought to have some of the country's best foods. In summer, that's often true. But as with the rest of America, midwesterners have too often turned their backs on their most flavorful foods in favor of an easy drive-through at a fast-food outlet. This anthology of essays on the Midwest's best and most unpretentious foods should go a long way toward regaining the respect the heartland's cuisine ought to enjoy. Jacquelyn Mitchard celebrates the area's most typical summer fare, sweet corn, especially its marvelous new variety, Mirai. Donna Pierce reminds us that midwestern cuisine owes much to the black migration. Lorna Landvik reveals that the institution of state fairs both enshrined local foodways and introduced novel traditions. The national reach of midwestern culinary art emerges in professional chef Gale Gand's feature on a Hoosier cheese maker. For regional collections.--Knoblauch, Mark Copyright 2010 Booklist

Library Journal Review

Some 30 well-known Midwestern writers reflect on food and family, and their reminiscences provide a feast for the reader in this hearty collection of essays. Jacquelyn Mitchard's "Corn in Heaven" is a joyous celebration of this sweet summer crop, evoking warm and wonderful memories of family gathered around as the corn roasts on an open fire. Writer Elizabeth Berg celebrates her Aunt Lala's meatloaf, recalling her Midwestern middle-class upbringing where "everyone had meatloaf once a week." NPR personality Peter Sagal laments Chicago's 2006 ban on the sale of foie gras, and writer Sue Hubbell offers up "The Great American Pie Expedition." VERDICT A delectable read, sprinkled with recipes and generous helpings of fun and plenty of food for thought.-Graciela Monday, San Antonio (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.