Book number one is now in print and available. If you want to visit the Quad Cities—and why wouldn’t you?—check out my Quad Cities travel guide. If you are traveling a bit further north, say to Dubuque, Galena, Clinton, or Prairie du Chien, your book is coming, very soon, hopefully in time for fall foliage season.
On Friday, the back seat of my car was strewn with the remains of half-eaten food: part of an apple turnover, a bite of something called a Blarney Stone (a sweet cake lathered in frosting and rolled in crushed peanuts), half of a pizza, a plastic container full of barely sampled spaghetti (minus the meatball)—the
Last week I found a cheap room in southwest Wisconsin, less than 10 minutes from downtown Dubuque, in an area rife with supper clubs. If you aren’t familiar with the concept, supper clubs are part fine dining experience—what was considered fine dining in the 1950s, anyway—and part neighborhood tavern: you can savor a juicy steak
NOTE: The Red Lion closed in September 2011. Sorry. You missed it. As much as I’d like to keep a place like the Red Lion Pub to myself, I just can’t. You need to know about this place, and you need to go there. Now. The Red Lion is located on Wisconsin’s Great River Road
When I think of turtles, which is usually only when I see one flattened on the blacktop of a back road, I don’t usually think of them as food (although I do think of them as dinner plates). Wednesday night, though, fried turtle was one of the specials at Schultzie’s Supper Club in Dickeyville, Wisconsin, so,
You never know where you’re going to find the good stuff. Last week I had a dreary visit to downtown Clinton, Iowa, a dreariness amplified by my own weary mood, as I searched in vain for unique stores and signs of street life. This week in Clinton couldn’t have been more different. After a morning
