Henry Verden spent 15 years in the restaurant industry and has had a lifelong love affair with food (he grew up in Wisconsin after all). He has written freelance for many years and is now a feature writer for Bountiful Cupboard Magazine. Read Bountiful Cupboard, http://www.bountifulcupboard.com and discover the best quality food, ingredients, beverages, products and services. Learn about the finest in Wisconsin, northern Illinois and Minnesota. Connect with fascinating growers, local producers, and the finest providers. Offered in full-color print and online.

Artist/cartoonist John Q. Tullius said "Nine out of ten people like chocolate.  The tenth person always lies." Long ago, chocolate became the go-to indulgence for a large portion of humanity.  We eat ...

I'm a Wisconsin boy, born and bred; I never met a dairy product I didn't like.  My wife and son both drink skim milk but the lowest I would ever go was 2%.  I felt, as many do, that skim was just blue...

Family reunion.  Those words seem simple, but they are often loaded with emotional content, memories -- and stress.  The stress of figuring out when and where everyone can get together, the stress of ...

In 1956, Fred Voll, a Master Sausage Maker, and his wife Kathe moved to Madison from Schweinfurt, Bavaria. Fred worked for Red Owl for awhile and then decided that he wanted to be free to make his sau...