While Wisconsin is known as a producer of milk, cheese and other dairy products, Door County is known for cherries and "fish boils"-- a process where fresh whitefish, potatoes and onions are boiled together in a large kettle over an open fire. The climactic "boil over" happens at the end when the cook pours some diesel fuel on the fire. The resulting flare-up generates "oohs" and "ahhs" from the crowd of hungry vacationers and the flames burn off any fish oil that floated to the top of the boiling water.
Door County's Baileys Harbor is also part of my heritage. It's where my great-grandparents, Peter and Anna Muckian, settled when they first came to the United States from Dundalk, Ireland. Maybe that's why this farm-- though never in the family-- does kind of say "home" to me.
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