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Madison Area Farmers Markets

Farmers’ Market season has hit, and Cuisine Capers has your guide to the Madison and Dane County area Markets! There’s a market for everyone – find yours here!

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Bratfest 2008 Breaks Records!

by irene on June 1, 2008

Grilling of the Brats

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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Madison Area Farmers Markets

by irene on April 17, 2008

Just a heads up - it’s that time of year again!  If you are in the Madison, Wisconsin area and you are starting to plan your Farmers Market season, http://CookingOutOfTheBox.com is here to help!  Check out the 2008 season listing here!

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Iron Chef Madison Style

by irene on October 21, 2007

Madison Food and Wine Show

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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Is Foodie a Four Letter Word?

by irene on May 31, 2007

This evening I participated in a Madison area “foodie” panel. It was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed meeting people of like minds, and I hope to continue to connect with all of them in the future, in one way or another. My thanks to the moderators: Eating in Madison from A to Z.
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Madison Interactive Foodie Panel

by irene on May 23, 2007

Hi all, I’m out of town at the moment, but thought I’d drop a quick note about a local Madison event coming up, featuring a Foodie Panel. It should be fun!
Madison Interactive, a group for people who work on public websites – both for work and for play – in the Madison area – is [...]

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Great Taste of the Midwest

by irene on May 7, 2007

A quick perusal of my blog stats tell me that many of you are hitting this blog right about now searching for tickets to the Great Taste of the Midwest.
Pardon me for a moment while I rant.
I will never again purchase tickets to another Great Taste of the Midwest. I won’t even use tickets if [...]

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A Uniquely Madison Sunday Morning

by irene on October 29, 2006

Trader Joe’s has opened in Madison. But more about that harrowing tale in a moment…
The balmy Sunday weather (35 degrees and sunny!) encouraged me to go out early this morning and roam around a bit. I started out at the Monona Farmer’s Market. This is actually a routine Sunday morning stop. You might think that [...]

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Restaurant Review: Cloud 9 Grille

by irene on September 16, 2006

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I was born and raised on the north side of Madison. This means that I’ve always aligned myself with the “East Side” faction of the Great Madison Eastside/Westside fray.
The whole debate goes something like this: The East side is more blue collar, more unique, more at ease, more “real Madison”. The West side is full [...]

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That’s One Smart Kraut!

by irene on August 21, 2006

I’ve figured out why I will never amass a fortune. I don’t act on my impulses and create obscure, targeted niche marketing products.
What caused this epiphany, you may ask? Well, there I was, wandering around Jenifer Street Market in Madison one day and lo and behold, what should I come across but one of my [...]

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The Neighborhood Butcher Shop

by irene on February 18, 2005

We have a neighborhood butcher shop that we go to religiously. It’s not in our neighborhood, but we make the trip out of our way to buy all of our meat there.
This shop doesn’t have a huge selection of cuts of meat – if I have one complaint, that would be it. But the cuts [...]

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Surprise! We’re in the Isthmus…

by irene on December 27, 2004

Dainec, a local web-friend that I’ve known for three years or so, but have never met (just when are we going to go and get that coffee?), alerted me to the fact that Cuisine Capers was mentioned in the latest issue of The Isthmus, a weekly Madison newspaper tradition.
Surprised, I trudged out on a snowy [...]

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Christmas in August!

by irene on August 13, 2004

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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