Ozarks Cuisine Is a Blend of the Best of Midwest and Southern Food
If you’ve ever been to the Ozarks, you probably went there deliberately since there are no interstate highways crossing the hilly region, no major airports. Only the Chippewa, Osage, and Cherokee tribes and the Anglo-Saxon folks of southern Appalachia (and the enslaved people they brought with them) migrating west in the 1830s had the hardiness and adventurous spirit to brave the perilous Ozark wilderness and survive there.