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• recipes | iowasthinking

  Breakfast Any Time At All Waffles * Apple-Cranberry Turnovers Best Blueberry Muffins Buttermilk Banana Pancakes * Croissants (and part two) * Pear Granola Crisp Wild Mushroom Quiche (and part two)* Br...

• on des moines, free wine, and art parks | iowasthinking

  Somewhere along the line Des Moines has become the de facto city for a night on the town. I'm not entirely sure how that happened, or how I feel about it. Back home, trekking two hours to the nearest ...

• how to tell a true story | iowasthinking

  When I'm back home -- really, when I'm anywhere but here -- people always ask me what Iowa's like. Sometimes they say, "So what's Iiiiooowwaaa like??!" as though it's on another planet, but even if I ...

• hits and misses in rockwell’s story | iowasthinking

  The new Norman Rockwell show at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art is, among many things, a delight. But there's a fallacy at work, too, and no one's made a peep about it. Least of all the New Yor...

• about | iowasthinking

  This is a blog about this eastern seaboard girl's move to -- and life in -- Iowa City, Iowa. Follow along as she attempts to find a butcher who who carves prosciutto, parlay her Guggenheim experience ...

• country | iowasthinking

  Posts about country written by iowasthinking