Midwest obvious

Blackberries, beans and the charm of the self-evident

Hello! I’m Adrienne, and you’re reading the Local Technique newsletter, a journal about cooking from the soil.

This week’s edition comes to you from the Driftless, an area of southwest Wisconsin that went untouched by glaciation during the last ice age. If the glaciers that scraped the region had come through here, today this zone would be flat as the st…