Wisconsin is home to America's Olympic curling teams, which begin competing today. The club is highly regarded in curling circles for its warm hospitality and exceptional meals. The Kettle Moraine Curling Club is in Delafield, just off Highway 83 on Oakwood Road. When the club hosts bonspiels drawing curlers from across the U.S. and Canada, they offer breakfast, lunch and dinner throughout the tournament, said Dosen. In other words, they feed 175 to 190 people three times a day, for up to four days.
Curlers do work up an appetite from the vigorous sweeping.
It's not uncommon to find cookbooks for sale at bonspiels. It's also not unusual to spot curling teams swapping recipes before they go home. Many recipes in the cookbook are directly from bonspiels. The KMCC Hash Brown Casserole recipe, for example, serves 150 people. But it and the other bonspiel recipes also are translated into family-size portions.