Before I went to Antwerp, I knew two things: 1) Antwerp is a European fashion capital, 2) my attire (old jeans and sneakers) would not be up to local standards. No matter, I told myself. Comfy kicks are more important than haute couture when you want to eat, drink and …
“Cider making,” says Gregory Hall, the former brewmaster for Goose Island Beer Company, “is more exciting than beer’s ever been.” We are surrounded by stacks of oak barrels at Virtue, Hall’s craft cidery that opened in 2011 in bucolic Fennville, Michigan, a small community in the fruit belt along Lake …
Geography of the Upper Midwest, 101: The glorious state of Michigan is made up of two peninsulas. The big one—the lower half of the state—is what folks around here call the Mitten. If you put that mitten on your left hand, just around the base of your pinky finger would …