I grew up in southern Iowa where deer and pheasant nibbled in corn fields for as far as the eye can squint and bass and catfish swirled in backyard ponds. The kitchen table throughout my Midwestern ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Maid-Rite Corp. and Hy-Vee Inc. are planning to open several sandwich shops at Hy-Vee convenience stories across the Midwest, the Iowa-based companies said Tuesday. Maid-Rite opened ...

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DES MOINES Iowa Maid-Rite Corp. has partnered with Hy-Vee Inc. to open loose-meat sandwich shops in Hy-Vee’s convenience stores. The first Maid-Rite Sandwich Shoppe Express opened Nov. 26 in Omaha, ...

Reggie Love, the former walk-on basketball player at Duke University who went on to become team captain, is out with a new book Feb. 3 called “Power Forward: My Presidential Education” that relates ...

The Iowa restaurant that wants the state legislature to exempt it from important food safety rules says its way of making loose meat sandwiches has never made anyone sick. Taylor’s Maid-Rite in ...

If you've never heard of Maid-Rites, let us introduce you to this famous little sandwich you can find in Greenville, Ohio. This little slightly sweet loose-meat sandwich — best described as like a ...

The Barn is a longtime restaurant off Washingon Street that is popular with locals and known for its friendly staff and pies. The Barn in Brainerd was opened in 1945 by a family from Iowa. It was part ...

MARION - New owners of 1000 Seventh Ave. in Marion - where Maid-Rite closed its doors for the last time in January 2017 - have plans to reopen the building as an Airbnb and a family restaurant. Jamie ...

DUNMORE – Nearly two years after a fire ravaged its Scott Twp. production facility, Maid-Rite Specialty Foods Inc. received grant funding to expand operations. The company, operating in Lackawanna ...

A Rochester restaurant is readying to roll this summer. The Maid-Rite Dineris going mobile with a new lunch truck. Don Sanford— Mr. Maid-Rite — plans to take his diner's loose meat hamburgers and hot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa's loose-meat sandwich — perhaps second only to the pork tenderloin as the state's most famous culinary concoction between two ...