Food + Beverage

Rooted Restaurants

Dining Where Ingredients Are Sourced Locally Helps Sustain Our Agricultural Community Article by Jill Heilman | Photography by Bobbi Peterson Photo & Provided The average American meal travels 1,500 miles before reaching your plate. Here in Wisconsin, we are surrounded by some of the richest agricultural land in the country. We're quite undeniably known for our farmlands, yet a shocking amount of food is shipped to mega-corp packaging facilities and sent out of the Midwest, while we buy West...

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Meals Matter

How a High School Food Drive in Middleton Grew into a Movement Article by Middleton City Lifestyle | Photography by Provided by Meals Matter Meals Matter   Middleton has a reputation as a place of plenty, where food insecurity would presumably be low. Growing up here, Noah Duckett had no reason to think otherwise until high school, when he learned about the instability spread across his town. "Middleton is a good school district,” says Noah, “so hearing how many families in that same area...

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From Pasture to Plate

A Meal Source You Can Trust: Local Farms Raising Exceptional Meat Article by Middleton City Lifestyle | Photography by Tyler Ike; Provided The meat on your plate came from somewhere. For most of us, that's about as far as our awareness goes. But knowing how, where, and who raised it gives us something rarer than rare: a transparent connection to what we eat, nothing more.    Venterknoll Farms  |  Wagyu Beef This Southwest Wisconsin farm's 100% pure Wagyu descends from the original cattle...

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Where Soil Meets Structure

Frank Lloyd Wright Envisioned a Homestead Sustained by its Surrounding Landscape; Riverview Terrace Cafe Carries that Agrarian Dream Forward Article by Jill Heilman | Photography by FLW Foundation Archive; Jill Heilman Perched along the winding curves of the Wisconsin River, a low-slung limestone structure sits embedded in the shoreline, looking less like a building dropped onto dirt and more like an outcrop pushed up by the earth itself. Designed in 1953 by Frank Lloyd Wright as a welcoming...