Indy as Culinary Crossroads

Some people in Indianapolis are referring to America’s 12th largest city as the Culinary Crossroads, says Mike Michaelson, writing for The Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana.  He notes the Indy Wine Trail, the Sushi For Sissies classes at Tchopstix, and the 1898 German restaurant known as The Rathskeller (Roadfood.com review; photo above) in the Athenaeum, a building designed in 1892 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s grandfather.  The Slippery Noodle Inn is Indiana’s oldest bar, and was the site of a bordello as late as 1953.  Plump’s Last Shot (see Roadfood.com reader IndyRick’s review) is the place for massive tenderloins.  And we love the sound of Traders Point Creamery, where the cows are milked daily at 4 pm, and where you can get ice cream made from that organic milk, and chocolate milk that has not been homogenized.