From Cranberry Pie to Point Bock Beer Cake, from Roast Mallard to Friday
Fish Fry, from Latvian peppercakes to Wild Rice with Italian Sausage,
this cookbook is bursting with the flavor of Wisconsin's varied cultures
and communities. These nearly 100 recipes were demonstrated during the
1998 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. and the Wisconsin
Folklife Festival in Madison, Wisconsin. Reflecting the enormously
varied ethnic groups in the state from Ojibwe to German to Hmong the
recipes are accompanied by notes about their origins and special place
in family and ethnic traditions. This cookbook also reveals the
importance in Wisconsin's regional cuisine of specialty bakeries,
breweries, cheese and sausage factories, commercial fisheries, cranberry
marshes, dairy farms, home gardeners, hunters and anglers, and
harvesters of honey, maple syrup, and wild rice."