As local as it gets in Wisconsin

"Chefs are a nomadic tribe," Milwaukee chef Dave Swanson says with a laugh as he talks about his traveling culinary school, Braise on the Go. For a few years now he has been hauling his portable kitchen to farms and orchards in counties surrounding Milwaukee to serve dinners using local ingredients. But the real reason for heading out to the farms was "connecting people to the farmers."

By Kevin Revolinski, Special to Tribune Newspapers

September 21, 2012