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I suspect Mr. Hennessey could have written his piece in a crowded and noisy café.

Since then, he’s added Yellow, a cafe with two locations, and La’ Shukran, a chic Middle Eastern bistro, to his stable.

Charley Pereira said his Orange Blossom Bakery & Café in Buxton, N.C., will lose thousands of dollars a day in sales while closed for the storm.

The Driftless’s many organic farms feed the area’s rapidly growing restaurant scene, with Driftless Café leading the charge from Viroqua, in Vernon County.

Just east of the Mississippi River, the county has the second-highest concentration of organic farms of any U.S. county, says Luke Zahm, the James Beard-nominated chef and the cafe’s co-owner.