This cookbook refers to the group of states that are traditionally called the Midwest — plus the tri-state area (that is, the northeast coast that’s not New England) — as the Eastern Heartland. I feel that this qualifies as a Good Description.

Watching them blow the game last night made me happy during a stressful week.

They used to make us go to baseball games as a “fun activity.”

Kansas transitions from “Plains” or “Colorado-lite” in its western half to the Midwest in its eastern half. Ohio is not the Midwest.

1. Fall
1a. Winter
1b. Spring
37. Summer