{"id":59002,"date":"2017-05-18T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T21:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=59002"},"modified":"2017-05-31T13:34:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T18:34:52","slug":"lawrence-is-nominated-for-best-food-in-the-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/05\/18\/lawrence-is-nominated-for-best-food-in-the-midwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence is Nominated For Best Food in the Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">LAWRENCE IS NOMINATED AS ONE OF MIDWEST LIVING&#8217;S GREATEST MIDWEST TOWNS: FOOD EDITION<\/p>\n<p>Voting is open until <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1350899371\"><span class=\"aQJ\">May 31<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">Lawrence, KS, May 15, 2017\u2013 Lawrence has been selected as the Kansas finalist for Midwest Living magazine\u2019s Greatest Midwest Food Town. Midwest Living\u2019s editors selected the top food town in each of twelve Midwest states: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, South Dakota, Kansas, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and North Dakota.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-39648\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Food.-300x280.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Food.-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Food..png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em><em>This colorful college town has a whiff of inland Portlandia about it\u2014although fierce University of Kansas fans would argue that the show\u2019s \u201cPut a bird on it\u201d catchphrase only applies in the case of Jayhawks. You\u2019ll find the culinary soul of Lawrence on Mass Street. That\u2019s where Free State Brewing Company started doing craft beer before everyone thought it was cool and Mass Street Soda hosts craft root beer tastings. Chefs butcher hogs in-house at 715 Mass Restaurant \u2026 which buys its baguettes from Lawrence institution WheatFields Bakery \u2026 which makes its bread with wheat milled nearby. And over at The Burger Stand, even the condiments have class: Try a Kobe beef patty topped with truffle butter and tomato aioli.\u201d \u2013 Midwest Living<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The winner is selected entirely on voting from the public. Anyone can vote once every day at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestliving.com\/vote\">http:\/\/www.midwestliving.com\/vote <\/a>\u00a0The winning town will be announced in the September\/October issue of the magazine, and Midwest Living will host an event\/party in the winning town in September.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to try out some of Lawrence&#8217;s great food for yourself check out a few reviews our KJHK staff has done of some of Lawrence&#8217;s top establishments down below:<\/p>\n<p>Munchers Bakery:<a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/03\/09\/the-best-donuts-for-3-am-munchers-bakery-review\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/03\/09\/the-best-donuts-for-3-am-munchers-bakery-review\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>O Cafe:<a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/11\/16\/seoul-food\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/11\/16\/seoul-food\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bon Bon:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/03\/02\/bomb-bon-a-review-of-bon-bon\/\">http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/03\/02\/bomb-bon-a-review-of-bon-bon\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAWRENCE IS NOMINATED AS ONE OF MIDWEST LIVING&#8217;S GREATEST MIDWEST TOWNS: FOOD EDITION Voting is open until May 31 Lawrence, KS, May 15, 2017\u2013 Lawrence has been selected as the Kansas finalist for Midwest Living magazine\u2019s Greatest Midwest Food Town. Midwest Living\u2019s editors selected the top food town in each of twelve Midwest states: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, South Dakota, Kansas, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and North Dakota.\u00a0 \u201cThis colorful college town has a whiff of inland Portlandia about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6426,"featured_media":56141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3226,3225,3392],"tags":[6800,6959,86,4075,6888],"class_list":["post-59002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-articles","category-culture-events","category-kjhk-ads","tag-bon-bon","tag-good-pizza-in-lawrence","tag-lawrence","tag-midwest","tag-munchers-bakery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_2848.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}