The New Midwestern table : 200 heartland recipes
(Book)

Includes index.

Amy Thielen grew up in rural northern Minnesota, in the shadow of the smoked sausages that hung in her uncle's meat market, in lines for potluck buffets that ended in a river delta of sweet, sticky bars, and in the company of women who could put up a batch of pickles without a recipe. Yet it took years of cooking in some of New York City's best restaurants and a homecoming in 2008 for her to rediscover the wealth of the Midwest's rustic, soul-tugging home cooking. The author reveals all that she's come to love -- and understand -- about the foods of her native Midwest through 200 classic recipes and personal accounts.