Growing up on the east coast, and specifically in Connecticut, there were a handful of foods that when I now described to people seem very very strange. I love birch beer, for example, but when I moved to Michigan I …

For those of you who don’t know, I spent the first 12 years of my life on the east coast – in Connecticut, matter of fact. Most of my family (save the immediate ones) still live their, nestled in West …