The cover is enticing with some cinnamon nut muffins dripping in a caramel sauce and the promise of more quick and easy breakfast breads.  A main feature of issue is comfort foods, because winter in the Midwest often requires some form of comfort.  

The travel section focuses on Austin, Texas a good place to find warmth and sunshine in the winter months as well as enjoy the food, music and people.  The home and garden section has "6  Furniture Facelifts" that include appliqués, painted furniture, two-tone finish as well as a couple things I had never  heard of – nailhead glamour?  It seems Midwestern comfort food is very similar to Southern comfort food - pot roast, macaroni and cheese, chicken pot pie, and garlic mashed potatoes.

The central article is "The Best Places to Get Snowed In" - by the lake, in the city, with kids, to romance, to play and to cook.   This article covers locations in Minnesota, Michigan, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Ohio.  It has activity and hotel recommendations for each location.   Another multi-state article is called "New Spots to Eat, Play and Stay."  If you are traveling to any Midwestern state and want to try out the latest restaurant, activity or hotel consult Midwest Living first.  A family wedding this summer takes us to Traverse City, Michigan where we will check out the Slabtown Café and Burgers – all in the name of library research, of course.

Most cities and states have a motto (Columbia is Famously Hot) Midwest Living has a page of city, state and  colleges mottos in the Midwest.  For those of you who love trivia the motto of Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan is Lux Esto (Give Light) and the motto for Bushnell, South Dakota is “It’s Not the End of the Earth, But You Can See It From Here.”