Love: The Packers. How can you not root for a community-owned team from a small town like Green Bay?
Like: Wisconsin may be known more for big brands like Miller and Pabst, but New Glarus' Spotted Cow is my home state beer of choice for the big game, assuming I can track some down.
Discovery: I had no idea that a "Little Wisconsin" hotbed of cool restaurants has sprung up in New York's West Village, thanks to Gabriel Shulman (a fellow UW Madison alumni.) Next visit I definitely want to check out Joseph Leonard, Fedora, and Jeffrey's Grocery, which the New York Times described as "it's as if Mr. Hooper joined Slow Food, took a charcuterie class, and developed a taste for Willamette Valley pinot noir."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/fashion/27close.html?_r=1&src=twrhp
Obsession: Wisconsin is known as the Dairy State, and Packer fans as Cheeseheads. Generally one thinks of basic chedder, quantity over quality, but Wisconsin has been enjoying an artisan cheese explosion. In Milwaukee over Christmas, we were massively impressed by a high-end Wisconsin cheese plate at La Merenda restaurant which included such varieties as Foengreek Gouda.
Complaint: Most of the time I love our mild Bay Area climate (sunny and 60s lately.) But I confess to longing for a blizzard and the accompanying snow days after seeing these pictures my mother took of the front and back of their house this week.
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