They are making it hard to be unhappy

How is it that something that isn’t even really a restaurant could be the best restaurant in Wisconsin? Well I don’t know how…but I think it just might be. [...]

Milkweed @ Arcadia Dinner

On December 10th Arcadia (the new book store in Spring Green) hosted a special dinner with Isaac Spicer, the chef of Milkweed.  Everything for the 5 course (+ an amuse-bouche) dinner was sourced locally, from within 30 miles of Spring Green (and local is not always an easy task in Wisconsin in December).  After the starters [...]

Paoli Bread & Brat Haus

Familar with TED?  It’s a non-profit which hosts conferences for short talks on a variety of subjects.  They often make the news when the speaker is famous.  Maybe you remember Jamie Oliver’s talk from 2010 about teaching kids about food.  Or Macolm Gladwell back in 2004 talking about spagetti sauce.  There have been a lot of [...]

Milkweed

We’ve been doing a lot of grilling recently (in fact, at this very moment I’m sitting on our deck grilling a Filipino pork yakitori-type thing we’ve been eating a lot of recently).  And when we grill, we usually eat outside too.  All this outdoor dining has reminded me of a fantastic outdoor meal that we had last [...]

Mayor Dave Goes to Washington

First, let’s just get this out of the way:

Packers won the Super Bowl!

Ahem.  Anyways, I just wanted to give Mayor Dave (Cieslewicz) of Madison a shout out for his excellent choices of gifts to bring when he was invited to watch the Super Bowl at the White House.  The snacks included:

-RP Pasta

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