![]() What goes into planning a potluck? Just an email, text message, or phone call with a loose “you do a main course, I’ll do veggie, they’ll bring dessert” sort of thing. Okay…you still have to make one dish, but that’s a lot better than a whole meal. Make it a little simpler by having your friends make all the food. ![]() ![]() It’s a beautiful thing not just because it’s a great format for a party, but also because sometimes summertime livin’ isn’t so easy it’s busy. In case this is your first day in the Midwest, a potluck is “a gathering of people where each person or group of people contributes a dish of food to be shared among the larger gathered group.” When you live in a place like the Driftless Region, you sometimes forget that you’re even eating local…you’re just serving up the produce grown by farmers up the road! They might even be sitting across the table from you – ‘cause this is the Midwest, people. Getting together with friends, eating food grown by friends, is the stuff of a Driftless summer. Getting together with friends is the stuff of summer. ![]() Story and photos by Aryn Henning Nichols The Potluck: Taking a Midwest Tradition Local ![]()
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