Iowa
4 dishes from Iowa, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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4 dishes from Iowa, cooked the way the place cooks them.
A centre-cut pork loin chop an inch and a half thick, brined, seared hard and finished in the oven in the same pan it browned in.
Ground beef steamed apart in its own liquid until every crumb is separate, spooned into a steamed bun and eaten with a spoon in the other hand.
Peanut butter and boiled sugar syrup stirred through puffed rice cereal, pressed flat and covered with melted chocolate and butterscotch chips.
Tenderloin medallions cooked hard in butter with garlic and basil, set on French bread so the bread takes everything the pan gives up.