Cheesemaker opens cooking school
Some of the finest professional chefs in Wisconsin and beyond are making their way to Sauk City, population 3,100 and in Sauk County, to cook […]
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Romance, FLW-style: Seth Peterson Cottage
When USA Today called recently, asking me to describe the most romantic experience or setting you could find in Wisconsin, I didn’t want to pick […]
Arizona good ‘mancation’ locale in spring
Being the hip (do we still say hip?) travel planner that I am, I was eager to help my partner and his buddies organize a […]
Natural Ovens Bakery: biochemist’s creation
The bakery tour lasts only 15 minutes, but it is free and about more than how to make bread in bulk quantities. Inside the small […]
Planetariums, observatories: Eyes on skies
Life is full of mystery, and we need only look skyward for evidence. Some stars rise and set. Others orbit. We are only beginning to […]
Primo places for Packer fans to visit
It is easy to relive the glory days of football in Green Bay, even without involving Lambeau Field. “Packer City Antiques sells the best collection […]
Quality Candy: Sweet family biz since 1916
There is time to shop before I meet Margaret Gile, so I eye up her merchandise and decide which extra calories should be transported home. […]
Orlando option: Stay and play downtown
Like hundreds of other Wisconsin fans, we will head to Orlando this month, to cheer on our beloved Badgers during the Capital One (aka Citrus) […]
Appleton steakhouse also Lombardi museum
A remarkable tribute to one of the country’s most beloved coaches thrives quietly in downtown Appleton, and his son will visit in early December. Vince […]
Visitors take flight, literally, at EAA museum
I am flying along Hawaii’s Na Pali Coast, admiring a string of glorious but severe cliffs on the small island of Kauai, when the unthinkable […]
Airport restaurants worth a special landing
I’m old enough to remember when some people went to airports just to watch the planes land and take off. Heightened security and hefty parking […]
Stefano veers from Italian to Duke of Devon
First came the brats and potato salad. Now there are bangers and mash, too, an unusual extension of ethnic richness in a community long regarded […]