Midwestern Regional Cookery: Local Specialties

All across the Midwest culinary specialties associated with a particular town or limited region can be found. These, too, comprise Midwest food. A very large proportion of such local specialties are related to the particular immigrant history of the locality. They are immigrant foods that have over time been adopted by the entire community, being altered, sometimes substantially, in the process. Often origins can be traced back to single persons, immigrant entrepreneurs who made use of their own culinary traditions in combination with the new American traditions they were learning in order to make a living.