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Britain protected the name Cornish pasty in 2011, and the specification rules out every pasty made in the Upper Peninsula. Here is how the pasty got to the Copper Country, and why the arsenic...
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Finnish squeaky cheese, the juustoa Yoopers drop in their coffee, was quietly dying out in U.P. farm kitchens. The trail that revived...
Read storyFinnish immigrants in the U.P. often built the sauna before the house and lived in it while they built everything else. Inside...
Read storyTrenary Toast is the U.P.'s rock-hard cinnamon korppu, baked in the tiny town of Trenary since 1928 and dunked in coffee across...
Read storyHeikki Lunta is the Upper Peninsula's own snow god, invented in 1970 by a radio DJ to save a snowmobile race. The...
Read storyYou can hear it in the accent, taste it in the nisu, and sweat it out in a Saturday-night sauna. Five western...
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