06/23/2012
The White Gull Inn in Milwaukee. [Photo by: Michael Stern]
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What you’ll find: Drive north from Milwaukee and get a grand taste of Wisconsin. First stop: the town of Sheboygan, renowned for its butchers' brats (rhymes with hots, short for bratwurst). The Charcoal Inn serves them sliced flat and glistening with butter on a hard roll, along with pickle chips and hoops of raw onion. Further north in Manitowoc, Beerntsen's Confectionary cooks candy in vintage copper kettles and hand-dips toffee, turtles, and “fairy food” (spun molasses covered in chocolate). The elaborately carved wooden booths in this 1930 sweet shop are an ideal place to sink your spoon into a hot fudge sundae or a “Sweetheart,” composed of vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce, marshmallow, and crushed nuts.
Up in Green Bay, Kroll's West, just across from storied Lambeau Field, is where Packer fans go to plow into huge, messy, half-pound burgers (devoured inside or in the open-air beer garden). The city is also is home to Chili John’s, which has been serving its spicy stuff atop spaghetti noodles—along with cheese and beans—since 1916.
Wisconsin's premier summer destination is Door County, a slim peninsula that juts into Lake Michigan. Here, at a cozy bed-and-breakfast called the White Gull Inn, guests can enjoy a classic Door County meal known as a fish boil: an outdoor ritual that involves whitefish steaks, freshly caught in Lake Michigan, cooked in a huge kettle over an open fire, and served piled high on plates with red potatoes. Cherry pie a la mode is the perfect way to cap off this meal.
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Start in: Milwaukee
What you’ll find: Drive north from Milwaukee and get a grand taste of Wisconsin. First stop: the town of Sheboygan, renowned for its butchers' brats (rhymes with hots, short for bratwurst). The Charcoal Inn serves them sliced flat and glistening with butter on a hard roll, along with pickle chips and hoops of raw onion. Further north in Manitowoc, Beerntsen's Confectionary cooks candy in vintage copper kettles and hand-dips toffee, turtles, and “fairy food” (spun molasses covered in chocolate). The elaborately carved wooden booths in this 1930 sweet shop are an ideal place to sink your spoon into a hot fudge sundae or a “Sweetheart,” composed of vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce, marshmallow, and crushed nuts.
Up in Green Bay, Kroll's West, just across from storied Lambeau Field, is where Packer fans go to plow into huge, messy, half-pound burgers (devoured inside or in the open-air beer garden). The city is also is home to Chili John’s, which has been serving its spicy stuff atop spaghetti noodles—along with cheese and beans—since 1916.
Wisconsin's premier summer destination is Door County, a slim peninsula that juts into Lake Michigan. Here, at a cozy bed-and-breakfast called the White Gull Inn, guests can enjoy a classic Door County meal known as a fish boil: an outdoor ritual that involves whitefish steaks, freshly caught in Lake Michigan, cooked in a huge kettle over an open fire, and served piled high on plates with red potatoes. Cherry pie a la mode is the perfect way to cap off this meal.
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