Michigan

• Detroit Coney Dog

  A natural-casing beef frank in a steamed bun under a loose beanless beef sauce, a stripe of yellow mustard and a handful of raw onion, built in that order and no other.

  Total

  1 hr

  Serves

  8

  Calories

  440 per serving

• Detroit-Style Pizza

  A wet dough pressed into an oiled steel pan, brick cheese laid to the walls so it fries into a lace of crust, and the sauce striped over the top after it comes out.

  Total

  3 hr 45 min

  Serves

  8

  Calories

  500 per serving

• Traverse City Cherry Pie

  Sour Montmorency cherries, frozen rather than fresh, set with cornstarch under a lattice — a pie built from the one fruit too sour to eat and too fragile to ship.

  Total

  3 hr 45 min, plus 4 hours cooling

  Serves

  8

  Calories

  560 per serving

• Upper Peninsula Pasty

  Diced beef, potato, rutabaga and onion sealed raw in a lard crust and baked slowly, so the filling cooks in its own steam inside the pastry that carried it down the shaft.

  Total

  1 hr 45 min, plus 1 hour resting the pastry

  Serves

  6

  Calories

  970 per serving

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