I happened to catch the Food Network show the Deen boys for the first time last night. For synchronicity, they happened to be in Missouri. They visited three places:
1. The legendary Blue Owl in Kimmswick, where they sampled a 16 lb. apple pie. That didn't look overly appetizing to me.
2. A sausage maker in Swiss. That looked good. I'd never heard of Swiss, but not too surprisingly it was in the Rhineland area of Missouri. That region along the Missouri river where Germans settled and started growing wine grapes, which reminded them of the Rhineland back home.
3. Volpi Meats on The Hill in St. Louis. There they saw how the company makes its own prosciutto and a few ways to eat said ham. I'd give you the link for Volpi, but they have one of those lame websites where it doesn't work at all without the lastest version of Flash, and I boycott such sites.
The Deen boys were pretty damned annoying, I doubt I would have watched it through without the local flavor (heh).
Brian
-- If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
