Pleasant Peninsula heads deep into winter, where burgers taste wrong, soup becomes religion, and beauty takes the season off. O.W. Root celebrates stew — that glorious, ugly bowl of rib-sticking slop that warms the body and forgives the soul. A visit to Calumet’s Bottle House turns into a meditation on grit, Finnish “sisu,” and the magic of making do with what you’ve got. Along the way, a kindly museum guide proves that the best stories — like the best soups — don’t need garnish.

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