Downtown Whitewater is looking for Food and Craft Vendors on September 22nd for its Pig in the Park BBQ: Downtown Whitewater. Inc. is looking for Food and Craft Vendors for our BBQ Pig in the Park State Championship Cook-off Sanctioned by Kansas City Barbeque Society Downtown Whitewater, Inc. will host the area’s first BBQ Pig…
Food
Beautiful Whitewater, Food, Press Release
September @ Cravath Lakefront: Pig in the Park BBQ Competition
by JOHN ADAMS •
This September 21st and 22nd: Downtown Whitewater. Inc. Announces New BBQ Pig in the Park State Championship Cook-off Sanctioned by Kansas City Barbecue Society Downtown Whitewater, Inc. will host the area’s first BBQ Pig in the Park Cook-off, which was sanctioned by Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) 2 weeks ago, and this week became…
Drink, Food, Hip & Prosperous
About Whitewater’s Restaurants
by JOHN ADAMS •
At last night’s common council session, there was more than one person who remarked that Whitewater needed an improved dining scene. She does. Although there are some real gems here, we’ve not enough of the sort of dining that would attract people to Whitewater time and again. A city of our size cannot have successful,…
Food, Wisconsin
At this year’s State Fair — the Pork Donut
by JOHN ADAMS •
WEAU reports that there will be dozens of new recipes at State Fair this year, including the….pork donut. Who knows what they’re like, but I did find this video about Dunkin Donuts’ introduction of pork donuts in their one-hundred fifty Chinese stores. Mark your calendars: State Fair runs from August 2nd to August 12th.
Business, Federal Government, Food
How ‘Big Food’ Dominates the USDA to Dominate Organic Agriculture
by JOHN ADAMS •
Agriculture, Business, Food, Free Markets, Laws/Regulations
Boosting Big Farms at the Expense of Small Ones
by JOHN ADAMS •
It’s about as hard as ever to be a small famer in America. Some difficulties are simply a consequence of competition, by which both farmers (compelled to be more innovative) and consumers (getting better goods at lower prices) benefit. Yet, when government, itself, becomes a burden and hardship for small famers, we have tolerated what…
Drink, Food, Laws/Regulations, Liberty
The War on Really Big Cups of Cola
by JOHN ADAMS •
Beautiful Whitewater, City, Food, Hip & Prosperous, Press Release
Pork in the Park: September 21-22, Cravath Lakefront
by JOHN ADAMS •
Something delicious for the beginning of fall, from Downtown Whitewater — Downtown Whitewater. Inc. Announces New BBQ Pig in the Park State Championship Cook-off Sanctioned by Kansas City Barbecue Society Downtown Whitewater, Inc. will host the area’s first BBQ Pig in the Park Cook-off, which was sanctioned by Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) 2 weeks…
Farming, Food, Liberty
Supporting food freedom, and agriculture without government subsidies
by JOHN ADAMS •
Reason interviewed free-market farmer Joel Salatin in an article published on 5.5.12. Two of Salatin’s observations stand out. On deciding what to eat: I think the government should allow this debate to flourish in the marketplace of ideas. The government entered this debate in the early 1970s by publishing the first food pyramid, a guide…
Food, Freedom of Speech
Why Marilyn Hagerty was right to review an Olive Garden restaurant
by JOHN ADAMS •
Eighty-five year-old Grand Forks Herald columnist Marilyn Hagerty recently wrote a review of an Olive Garden restaurant that opened in her North Dakota town. Her review caught people’s notice, in cities across America. Established reviewers believe that one should not review a chain (and certainly not praise a restaurant chain, as Hagerty did). Some of…
Food
McDonald’s agrees to stop adding ammonium hydroxide to hamburger meat
by JOHN ADAMS •
Food, Restaurant
Wisconsin Foodie: Dave Swanson of Milwaukee’s Braise and Gordon Edgar, author of Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge
by JOHN ADAMS •
Food
Chicken Nuggets: How Bad Are They?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Food
Wisconsin Foodie: Morel Hunt
by JOHN ADAMS •
Wisconsin Foodie is an always-interesting, always-informative show from Wisconsin Public Television. (“Wisconsin Foodie is an Emmy nominated independent television series dedicated to discovering the stories behind the food we eat.”) In the episode embedded below (all the episodes are available online), viewers Visit Kettle Moraine with chef David Swanson from Braise Restaurant and Culinary School…