Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie Midwestern Writers on Food (UNP - Nebraska Paperback, 2013)
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
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