For the 10th year running, Bread & Butter is back to pick your next meal — or your next year of meals — in eastern and central Iowa. Browse reviews of more than 40 restaurants, from fresh new spots to well-greased staples, across Des Moines, Ames, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, the Quad Cities, Dubuque, Waterloo, Cedar Falls and more.
Our cover story this August is pure smut. Peel back the husk and get a load of huitlacoche, a.k.a. corn smut, a fungal delicacy for more than 500 years that spawns on infected corn cobs. While most Iowa farmers spray fungicides, growers in the know harvest the protein-rich black-and-white galls. Also inside: The history of taco pizza, an Iowa invention; breakfast, lunch and dinner spots near Iowa museums; and the quietly radical work of a burrito- and sandwich-toting band of bicyclists in Des Moines.
