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Cuisine of Ohio

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is a Greek-inspired meat sauce, (ground beef seasoned with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, bay leaf, cumin, chili powder, and in some home recipes, chocolate), used as a topping for spaghetti or hot dogs. Additionally, red beans, chopped onions, and shredded cheese are offered as extra toppings
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gave details of a supper that included "fine roast buffalo beef, soup of buffalo beef and turkeys, fried turkeys, fried cat fish, fresh caught, roast ducks, good punch, madeira, claret, grog and toddy". The "fine venison, bear meat, turkeys and catfish" eaten by Butler's party was supplied entirely
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A popular snack food in Ohio are sauerkraut balls, a meatball-sized fritter containing sauerkraut and some combination of ham, bacon, and pork. The recipe was invented in the late 1950s by two brothers, Max and Roman Gruber for their five star restaurant, Gruber's, located in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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This region was rich in natural resources including wild turkeys, bears, deer, elk, and pigeons in large numbers, along with large buffalo herds. The buffalo population dwindled as settlement increased, but were still being hunted in southeastern Ohio as late as 1792. In 1785,
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didn't take to the rich soils around Ohio so wheat bread remained a rare luxury, and many crops were hard to come by in the early years. When
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The appetizer that has been proclaimed Akron's official dish has been on menus throughout the city for as long as anyone can remember.
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is home to the "Waldo Burger", a fried bologna sandwich. Traditionally, it is topped with mustard, pickles, onion, and cheese.
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were plentiful. In lean times raccoons, squirrels, opossums and other less desirable game could be consumed. One writer in the
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that was created by Serbian immigrants. It is usually accompanied by a hot rice dish, vinegar
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to reach the Ohio Company settlement. By winter's end many families had run out of
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by hunting and fishing, or in Butler's words "procured by themselves at pleasure".
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and depended on game meats like wild turkey and venison during the winter months.
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are very popular in Northeast Ohio. The region, which was originally part of the
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500 Things to Eat Before it's Too Late: and the Very Best Places to Eat Them
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era wrote that a hunter could kill six to eight deer each day.
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Venison and turkey were the most popular game, and fish like
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These were a derivative of the various ethnic cultures of
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is a local specialty, popular in the state of Ohio. The
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