Bikes & Boils in Door County // Feasting on Wisconsin's Fish

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: July 17, 1994| Author: ROBERT J. HERGUTH; EDMUND J. ROONEY | Copyright information
FISH CREEK, Wis. We are here with our spouses to track down the mysterious Door County fish boil. We don't know much about the Door County fish boil, except that it conjures up visions of good Wisconsin times for everyone but the fish.

As we cross the border into Door County, four or five hours north of Chicago on Lake Michigan, we decide a fish boil is an open-and-shut case to find in Door.

Signs advertising fish boils are frequent, touting the simplest boils to the grandest. T...

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