Chef's Diary: After a mass bike ride across Iowa, a slow-food chef picks up the pace

Written by Grist Magazine
07/25/2008
Proving yet again that Iowa offers more than corn fields and hog confinements, Kurt Friese reports from the front lines of a massive cross-state bike ride. Of course for Friese, the annual ride doesn't just involve grinding across the countryside with 15,000 if his best friends. It's really about the food -- from the famed Pizza on Wheels that once nourished touring Deadheads to unique pancakes called "aebleskiver" made by modern-day Vikings. Then there's the matter of the meal for 3,000 he has... Read more...