Midwestern Staples. In the Midwest, It's Meatloaf / Elizabeth Berg -- Field Trips / Stuart Dybek -- Easter Island Almondine / Thom Jones -- Sandwich That Is Chicago / Michael Stern -- Cincinnati Five-Way Chili : Still Legal / Robert Olmstead -- Corn in Heaven / Jacquelyn Mitchard -- Let Them Eat Pâté / Peter Sagal -- High on the Hog / Jon Yates -- Chef and the Farmer / Gale Gand -- Recipe : Goat Cheese Panna Cotta with Caramelized Figs -- Distant Cultures. Art's Lunch / Harry Mark Petrakis -- Tale of Two Tamales / Carol Mighton Haddix -- Recipe: Beef Brisket, Savory Cherry Compote,and Jalapeño Cheese Tamales -- Le Dog, Ann Arbor, Michigan / Jules Van Dyck-Dobos -- Night of the Rhubarb Kuchen / Anne Dimock -- Recipes: Rhubarb Kram -- Rhubarb Kuchen with Almond Meringue -- Black Migration / Donna Pierce -- Eat Now / Phyllis Florin -- Door County Fish Boil / Peggy Wolff -- Recipes: White Gull Inn Door County Cherry Pie -- White Gull Inn Fish Boil Recipe for Home Cooks -- Holidays, Fairs, and Events. Thrill Food / John Markus -- Under the Checkered Flag / Melanie Benjamin -- Bicentennial Pie / Timothy Bascom -- So You'll Diet Tomorrow / Lorna Landvik -- Thanksgiving Dinner / Mary Kay Shanley -- Recipe: Thanksgiving Stuffing with Cast-Iron Skillet Corn Bread -- Full Belly. Tam-O-Shanter, Lincoln, Nebraska / Sherrie Flick -- What Was Served / Douglas Bauer -- Tomorrowland / Peter Meehan -- I'll Eat Columbus / Molly O'Neill -- On Cider, Cornmeal, and Comfort / Robin Mather -- Recipe: Buttermilk Doughnuts with Cider Glaze -- Midwestern Sweet Tooth. Great American Pie Expedition / Sue Hubbell -- Old sweetness / Bonnie Jo Campbell -- Recipe: Fudge -- Little Cake Pan That Could / Bonny Wolf -- Recipes: Chocolate Pistachio Cake -- Ella Helfrich'sTunnel of Fudge Cake -- When a Pie Is More Than a Pie / Jeremy Jackson -- Recipe: Mildred Jackson's Lemon-y Cream Pie.