South Dakota Magazine - 25 Years

What We Eat. How We Eat. Who We Are.

2010-08-26T14:09:00.000-07:00

An anniversary special — 25 years of exploring the food culture of South Dakota. WHAT SUBSET OF HOMO Sapiens is most apt to mix rhubarb with raspberries, gather in Delmont for pickle parties, discern the difference between chislic and kabobs, know the history of the pastie sandwich and collect recipes galore for bison, salmon, walleye, beef and pork? Who knows where to find a morel mushroom and

10 Naturally Beautiful Places

2010-06-24T14:20:00.000-07:00

BEAUTY IS SUBJECTIVE, but that didn’t stop the editors of South Dakota Magazine from coming up with a list of our state’s 10 ‘most beautiful places.’ Our writers and photographers have motored about a half-million miles in this magazine’s first 25 years of exploring South Dakota, so there aren’t many roads we haven’t traveled — nor many sights we haven’t seen. As an

Take Five: An Interview with Photographer Chad Coppess

2010-06-16T13:21:00.000-07:00

Chad Coppess has been the South Dakota Department of Tourism's chief photographer since 1993, and he has gained a reputation as one of the state's most capable and widely traveled shutterbugs. What is your favorite South Dakota spot to photograph? I love a lot of places in South Dakota, but for shooting pictures my favorite is always the last place I found really great light. There's nothing

Take Five: An Interview with Bernie Hunhoff

2010-05-26T11:04:00.000-07:00

Bernie Hunhoff started the magazine in 1985 after working in the newspaper business in South Dakota. He has been stuck on gumbo trails in Lyman County, been hissed at by rattlers at Porcupine and forced to eat everything from lutefisk to roast goat. It's all part of the job of publishing South Dakota Magazine. What do you like most about publishing South Dakota Magazine? Working with a group

Pick Your Favorite Cover and Win a Book!

2010-05-24T12:49:00.000-07:00

In celebration of our anniversary we rounded up all of our 125 covers and posted them here on our special anniversary site. Our staff had a great time glancing through our covers, and we hope you do to. While our least popular cover is no secret (a rattlesnake painting by John Green) there are almost no two favorites that are alike. While perusing our past covers, you’ll see the magazine go

The Best of South Dakota Cooking

2010-05-24T12:45:00.000-07:00

The SDM staff is working on the biggest food story in South Dakota Magazine history. In honor of our 25th Anniversary, our 2010 September/October issue will feature 25 favorite South Dakota foods. We’re highlighting classics — like lutefisk, kuchen, walleye, rhubarb and chokecherry— but we’re still hashing out which foods should be included. What foods do you think best represent our state?

Who's Your Favorite South Dakotan?

2010-05-21T07:18:00.000-07:00

In this magazine's 25 years, we've published well over 1,200 major feature articles, plus thousands of smaller pieces, and met more interesting characters than we can count. Our January/February issue, the first in our special 25th anniversary series of issues appearing through 2010, included a story about some of those colorful people. There was Tub Rath, the Wasta gentleman who delivered

25 Things Every South Dakotan Should Do

2010-05-07T08:28:00.000-07:00

How ‘South Dakotan’ are you? Take our test! OUR WRITERS and photographers have spent 25 years exploring South Dakota, so you can take it from us: there are a multitude of things worth doing and experiencing in our fair state, from the destinations and side trips every visitor can name to the cool stuff only locals know. That made whittling it all down to 25 Things Everyone Should Do in

25 Very Unusual Man-made Places

2010-05-05T09:56:00.000-07:00

ONLY GOD CAN MAKE a tree, but that hasn’t stopped South Dakotans from trying their hands at creation. We’ve fashioned some gigantic lakes, sculpted two mountains and assembled four walls with everything from mud, brick, straw, sticks and stones. An outside observer might accuse us of tinkering. But, truly, all we’re trying to do is give a little accent to the prairies

A Sampling of South Dakotans

2010-04-30T10:24:00.000-07:00

FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS. Saints and scoundrels. Odd and ordinary. Cranky and sweet. Folks we’d buy a used car from and a few who … well, never mind. We’ve come across all kinds of characters in the 25 years we’ve been publishing South Dakota Magazine. Some were dead when we started publication in 1985 — but we got to know them just the same by researching and writing about their lives. Others we were

The Inside Story of the People Behind Your Magazine

2010-04-27T09:16:00.000-07:00

IF YOU'RE TALKING to a guy in a yellow slicker and hard hat and he’s spraying water on the blazing inferno that used to be your house, the discussion usually revolves around practical matters like, “If you had to guess, what are the chances of getting my kids out alive?” But, under routine, everyday introductions, “Where are you from?” and “What do you do for a living?” are generally the first