This is the introduction to I Love Ranch Dressing, a guide to ’stuff White Midwesterners like’:

If you like sporting novelty sweaters, dipping everything in ranch dressing, smothering your home with sunflowers and white wicker, and eating top-notch dinners at Cracker Barrel, then you might be a White Midwesterner (or at the very least you should move to the Midwest as soon as possible).

The Mid-West USA, as defined by US census bureau. Credit

It’s funny and (especially if you’re not from the USA) very informative. Let us know what you think!

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My Big Fat Cuban Family is full of larger than life stories from a Cuban-American family in the USA.

It’s also a celebration of Cuban-American culture - many younger family members were born in the USA but they still keep in touch with their Cuban heritage.

Cultures meet and mix in this blog - come along on a trip to Las Vegas, compare summers spent in Cuba and the USA, and learn how to make a perfect cup of Cuban coffee.

This week we are heading to Canada, where the 2008 Canadian Blog Awards are currently open for nominations.

Andrea must lead a hectic life - she is mom to 4 kids - but that doesn’t stop her having energy to spare for Atypicalife dot net. In fact her energy leaps out of the posts. She has been blogging for years and years (since 1998 to be precise) and writes from the East Coast of Canada.

To understand more about this typical (?) Canadian life I will leave you with an excerpt from a recent post:

…the next morning, in the foggy half-light of dawn, I was awakened by gunshots. And my first thought was to make sure the zombies could not get in the house

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How did we get this far without mentioning any blogs from Canada? Maybe because there are so many good ones to choose from, it was hard to make a decision.

Probably fittingly for such a multi-cultural country, our first Canadian entry is written by a foreigner in Canada. Zhu (aka Juliette - she’s French) lives in Ottowa and has been in Canada for 6 years.

In Correr es mi Destino she writes about immigrating, adapting to life in Canada and her ideas of what defines Canada and Canadians, amongst other stories.

Photo by Zhu

If you need another reason to visit, this week Zhu is running a blogging advice contest on her blog. Go there and see for more details.

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Christina from Canada introduces her German husband to the joy of iced drinks