"Personal and simple, earthy and warm-recipes and stories from the Steger Wilderness Center in Minnesota's north woods"--

A food blogger, cake cookbook author, and Minnesota homesteader provides 110 home-cooked recipes with chapters on breakfast, casseroles, soups, appetizers, meats, vegetables and desserts along with her trademark sassy commentary.

Let's dispense with the usual old notions of preserving, Beth Dooley suggests, leading us into Mette Nielsen s kitchen, where old-world Danish traditions meld with the freshest ideas and latest techniques to fill the pantry with the best of the season, all year long. Because those seasons can prove especially challenging in the northern heartland, Nielsen's Nordic heritage is handy as she and Dooley show cooks, first-time and experienced canners alike,...

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...

"From Minnesota's newer culinary traditions-Hmong hotdish-to its oldest-nourishing wild rice-Land of 10,000 Plates explores far and wide, experiencing the festivals, communing with revelers, and celebrating the foodways that define the northland"--

When it comes to defining what we know as all-American baking, everything from Bundt cakes to brownies have roots that can be traced to the great Midwest. German, Scandinavian, Polish, French, and Italian immigrant families baked their way to the American Midwest, instilling in it pies, breads, cookies, and pastries that manage to feel distinctly home-grown.