Rob Connoley is the owner of Bulrush Restaurant in STL, MO, a James Beard Semi-Finalist, and the author of Acorns and Cattails
An excerpt from Rob Connoley’s website:
What does it mean to be ‘rooted in Ozark cuisine? Rob Connoley and his team has spent a lifetime trying to answer this question. Literally – while some may call it ‘High South Cuisine.’ or the ‘Ozark Plateau,’ for many of us, it’s the food we were raised on.
Through their research of family journals and letters from the early 1800s, we have uncovered over 200 years of history. History that includes the bold families of indigenous people, enslaved residents, and Euro-Appalachian immigrants that tamed the wild lands of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri (and tips of Oklahoma and Kansas). These are the people who defined what was Ozark cuisine.
Bulrush is rooted in this food that sustained these hardy people for generations. Through our contemporary knowledge and modern techniques, what has grown is Ozark food like you’ve never seen it – but will satisfy your fondest childhood memory.