by Jason Smith | Apr 9, 2020 | Magazine Article
Let’s make a beer together. This is how collaborations such as the one between Working Draft Beer Company and the Wisconsin Academy get started. For the Academy’s 150th anniversary and in honor of its magazine of Wisconsin thought and culture, Wisconsin People &...
by Alex Paniagua | Apr 9, 2020 | Magazine Article
Ben Cadman and Celeste Parins, the owners of Voyageurs Sourdough, want to share their love of bread with the people of Green Bay. Parins, a Green Bay native, met the Netherlands-born Cadman while traveling across Asia. As the two bonded over their love of food,...
by Mckenzie Halling | May 14, 2019 | Magazine Article
From the outside, Tricklebee Café at 4424 West North Avenue in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park looks like any other restaurant. An A-frame chalkboard outside announces the special of the day: winter grain stew with a side of Hasselback potatoes and a radish, apple, and...
by Jason Smith, Scott Gordon | Aug 1, 2018 | Magazine Article
For over fifteen years, David Jorgenson* has been digging up and selling wild ginseng roots that grow on his property near the Mississippi River in Vernon County. Like many “diggers,” Jorgenson got into ginseng harvesting after a neighbor saw a few of the...
by Max Witynski | Apr 26, 2018 | Magazine Article
It’s a not-so-well-kept secret in Wisconsin that hickory nuts taste better when someone else shells them. Two hickory species are found in Wisconsin, the shagbark (Carya ovata), and the rarer bitternut (Carya cordiformis). With coarse bark that hangs off the tree in...
