"Becca" > wrote in message
...
> Chris Marksberry wrote:
>> "Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:59:06 -0500, "Gregory Morrow"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Lou Decruss wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:44:40 -0500, Janet Wilder
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> One summer we went to see Door County. Some RVing acquaintances had
>>>>>> been
>>>>>> raving about it. It was very touristy. I remarked to a lady in the RV
>>>>>> park that I was surprised with the amount of tourist kitch. She was a
>>>>>> local and said that the area where people from Chicago went for
>>>> vacations.
>>>>> There's lots of areas like that. Most are pretty empty in the winter
>>>>> so the cheese-heads can get down to some serious beer drinking. <g>
>>>>
>>>> And drunkenly crashing their snowmobiles through the ice on their way
>>>> to the
>>>> tavern...
>>> Ain't that the truth!
>>>>>> It could have been a lovely place without the tourist-tentacles. I
>>>>>> did
>>>>>> enjoy a fish boil and we did a lot of sightseeing on the lower part
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> Door County where there are pretty farms and cherry orchards and
>>>>>> hardly
>>>>>> any vacationers from Chicago.
>>>>> Oh yes there are some beautiful areas there. SW Wisconsin is very
>>>>> hilly and some of the views in the country are amazing.
>>>>
>>>> Lotsa good locally - made cheese 'n stuff around there...and Madison
>>>> has
>>>> what is considered the best farmer's market in the entire US.
>>> The August issue of Chicago magazine has an article called
>>> "destination Madison" speaking of the foodie attributes of Madison.
>>> The cheese, beer, Dane county farmers market etc. all make it quite a
>>> city. I also like Monroe and New Glarus. Mt. Horeb is a cool place
>>> too.
>>>
>>> http://www.mustardweb.com/history-museum.htm
>>>
>>> Lou
>>
>> Lou,
>>
>> Again... small world. Mt. Horeb is where my father (and his brothers)
>> was born and raised. I remember it as being close to 100% populated with
>> Norwegian Americans. My grandfather built a home there which I
>> understand still stands.
>>
>> Food reference: Lefse good!
>> Lutefisk very, very bad!
>>
>> Chris
>
> When I first visited this newsgroup, people would throw lutefisk at each
> other. I guess they quit doing that. lol
>
> Becca
>

I have a very old cookbook from "Sons of Norway" that was published in Mt.
Horeb. Very unfortunately it does have recipes for lutefisk <g>... well
in defense of the cookbook it does have a lot of good sounding recipes for
meatballs too! Need to try some of those one of these days.

Chris