Cafe Indiana: A Guide to Indianaas Down-Home Cafes

By Joanne Raetz Stuttgen

Cafe Indiana is both a guide to Indiana's hometown mom-and-pop restaurants and a reclamation and celebration of small-town Midwest culture. The hungry diner looking for adventure and authenticity can use Cafe Indiana simply as a guide to the state's quintessential eats: the best fiddlers, macaroni and cheese, soup beans, and beef Manhattan. But Stuttgen also captures the spirit of the locals, bringing to life the people whose stories give the book--and the food--its soul.
Over plates of chicken and noodles, fried bologna sandwiches, and sugar cream pie, folks are crafting community at the Main Street eatery. In Cafe Indiana, Hoosiers and out-of-staters alike are invited to pull out a chair and sit a spell.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299224945
• ISBN13: 9780299224943
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"