Erika Kubick, author of Cheese Sex Death, recommends the best cheese shops in the Midwest, with locations in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana.
Restaurants on the outskirts of town have been development pathfinders. When Eddie Webster’s opened in 1970, it was miles of cornfields away from the houses. It introduced central Iowa to flagons of wine, Alaskan ice cream cocktails, and a menu of steaks and lobster, no pasta or chicken. Eddie built