A Tasty Guide for Travelers
This out-of-the-ordinary guidebook celebrates all things food in Wisconsin: gourmet cuisine and supper clubs, food festivals and food products, and fun road trips the hungry reader can take to enjoy the state’s bounty.
Hungry for Wisconsin: A Tasty Guide for Travelers celebrates the people, places and foods that define this part of the world. We know who we are, and we are proud of it: horseradish to sauerkraut, "funeral wieners" in Whitelaw to roller-skating carhops in Oshkosh and La Crosse. Chefs whose work could earn diamonds on the U.S. coasts settle for under-the-radar, peaceful living in Plover, Downsville, Suamico, Monticello and numerous other small towns. But
why would it be a surprise that restaurateurs who truly believe the "buy local" mantra live in or near rural areas? In the pages of Hungry for Wisconsin are burger flippers and entrée artists, glimpses of dirt-in-the-nails farm life and coat-and-tie ambiance. What everybody has in common is integrity of product.
Author Mary Bergin has written the weekly "Roads Traveled" column since 2002, which is syndicated to daily newspapers throughout Wisconsin. Column installments can be viewed at
www.roadstraveled.com. Her first book, Sidetracked in
Wisconsin: A Guide for Thoughtful Travelers,was judged best book in 2007 SATW Central States competition. Published by Itchy Cat Press in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin.