For residents in the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan, Lake Michigan is a readily accessible year-round vacationland, with beloved food traditions and new delicacies and tastes to explore every year. The Lake Michigan Cottage Cookbook is packed with recipes and stories inspired by the distinctive lakeshore cuisine and lifestyle. The Lake Michigan Cottage Cookbook honors a popular vacation region and its laid-back foodways. The recipes reflect the way that people like to eat when relaxing at a cottage and enjoying the scenery: colourful local vegetables and fruits, simply prepared meats, fresh-from-the-lake fish, and indulgent, old-fashioned baked goods. Each distinctive area of the 3,200 miles of shoreline is profiled in a separate chapter, along with its food specialties and traditions, including Door County, Sheboygan, Kohler, and Milwaukee in Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; Northwest Indiana; and Harbor Country, the Southwest, Saugatuck, Douglas, Fennville, Traverse City, and the Peninsulas in Michigan.
