Main Course
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Beef Barstow
center cut prime angus beef sirloin, seasoned and pan seared with mushrooms and onions, cognac cream sauce, and white truffle mashed potatoes, honors governon barstow, who gracefully resigned when the wisconsin supreme court invalidated his 1856 election because of votes from non existen precincts.
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Potter Perch
fried pretzel crusted lake perch filets, served with house made tartar, parmesan potato, and sweet gingered carrots, honors the wisconsin congressman who, while debating abolition, was challenged to a duel by representative pryor of virginia. when potter named bowie knives as his weapon of choice, pryor indignantly withdrew declaring that he was no butcher.
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Pork Goodell
bacon wrapped pork tenderlon medallions, apple cider barbecue sauce, cornmeal crusted potato croquette, and roasted cauliflower gratin, honors lavinia goodell, the first woman admitted to the wisconsin bar in 1874.
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Beef Lathrop
boneless short ribs braised in dark beer, served with root vegetables roasted with pan juices, and garlic mashed potatoes, honors john lathrop, the first chancellor of the university of wisconsin in 1849, when the class numbered 20 men.
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Trout Phoenix
boneless fresh raibow trout filet baked with a smoked trout crust, served on sauteed spinach, with fennel cream sauce, and a parmesan potato, honors the 250 dutch immigrants who went down with the steamer phoenix in lake michigan on november 21, 1847.
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Lamb Doty
rich flavored shank, slowly braised with root vegetables in red wine till fall off the bone tender, served with pan juices and garlic mashed potatoes, honors james doty, who platted and named the town of madison on the 1200 acre isthmus he's acquiired for $1.25 an acre.
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Veal Vilas
parmesan crusted veal cutlets, sauteed spaetzle with mushroom sauce, served with braised red cabbage, honors the madison mayor, who in his 1861 inaugural stated, people have been swindled so often by those elected it's not surprising that some look at government as a means by which the few can rob the many.
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Chicken Bond
pretzel crusted boneless breast, stuffed with wisconsin gruyere cheese and smoked duck breast, with a port wine cherry sauce, served with wild rice and sweet gingered carrots, celebrates song writer carrie jacobs bond, whose turn of the century hits include the end of a perfect day, and i love you truly.
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Vegetable Crepes Leopold
delicate crepes with a goat cheese, spinach, and roasted red pepper filling, served in a tomato cream sauce with roasted cauliflower gratin and sweet gingered carrots, honors aldo leopold, wisconsin's champion naturalist.
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Duck Wilcox
semi boneless roast half duck, with port wine cherry sauce, wild rice and fried apples. this honors westport poet, ella wheeler wilcox, who coined the oft repeated phrase, laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone.
