
Wisconsin State Fair Food – for your viewing pleasure, a photo tour of a sampling of the food stands I encountered on my way from the entrance of the fair to the location to buy the famous Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff.
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Wisconsin State Fair Food – for your viewing pleasure, a photo tour of a sampling of the food stands I encountered on my way from the entrance of the fair to the location to buy the famous Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff.
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Memorial Day weekend has special meaning in Madison, Wisconsin. For the last several years, it has marked the weekend for Bratfest, the biggest Bratwurst-eating orgy in the World! Thousands gather to buy bags of brats at bargain prices. And that’s not all, there are major celebrities on hand, as shown below:
Yes, the Johnsonville Brat [...]
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Every now and then I get the hankering to enter a recipe contest. It doesn’t happen very often, mind you, but I’ll point out that according to the Wisconsin State Journal, I have the best potato salad in the kingdom of Madison… even if they didn’t understand what it meant when I called for a [...]
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The Madison Food and Wine Show took place this weekend. An annual event, this show features food, wine, demonstrations, exhibits, and other food and beverage related items. Perhaps one of the more entertaining aspects of this show is the Dueling Chef Competition.
Chefs representing Madison Originals restaurants compete ala Iron Chef for the title of Madison’s [...]
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For those of you frantically searching Google to figure out if there is a Brat Fest this weekend (don’t try to hide… I can see you – Yeah, you… I’m talking to you!)…
Alas, no, there is no Brat Fest this Labor Day. Ever since they moved to to the Aliant Center grounds they seem to [...]
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Alas, the brat-consuming record was not broken this Labor Day weekend at Brat Fest.
The goal: 200,000 Bratwurst
The reality: 162,234 Bratwurst
But don’t despair! This still beat the previous Labor Day record by 39,000 brats. And really, if you consider that The Taste of Madison and a home UW Football game was going on over the weekend, [...]
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And no, I am not referring to the abnormally cold weather that we are having. It’s the Great Taste of the Midwest tomorrow! More than 100 breweries, offering a total of more than 400 beers to taste!
I’ll be taking a camera and posting some pictures.
And tonight we’re celebrating tomato season by going to the world [...]
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