"FISHERMEN AND HUNTERS WELCOME. MICHIGAN CHERRIES. SUGAR BEETS AND CORN. The banner at the truck stop rotated with these simple phrases. ... The seasons out here were determined by there was to fish, hunt, forage, pick, and so on, you understand. Most people were hunters and fishermen and animals were their prey, which left the flora to people like me. ... I liked truck stops. Sometimes I had cravings for that sort of meat and potatoes type of American cuisine you could find at a truck stop. Because I'm a fine-dining chef, people think I eat fancy most of the time. That is very far from the truth."
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Iliana Regan
(born in 1979) is a chef, , and memoir author. She owned and ran the Chicago restaurant until 2020 when she left Chicago to run the Milkweed Inn bed and breakfast in the . Her 2019 memoir Burn the Place was longlisted for the .
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