"Two of the world's best restaurants are in Kansas City" —Calvin Trillin, _New Yorker_"
But, Geo- don't forget Trillin grew up in KC before he moved to NYC and became the ultra-sophisticated, internationalist aesthete/writer.
Quite a metamorphosis for a kid from KC.
Well, come to think of it the NewYorker founder, Harold Ross, grew up in towns in Colorado and SLC.
Maybe a lot of East Coast sophicates came out of the hinterland.
Mike
Suburban gourmand