My experience with Asian food is not as extensive as I would like it to be. Throughout our long life together my husband, when asked his preference for dinner, has invariably shaken his head at suggestions of Chinese, Thai, or...
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“What is that?” My brother gestured towards a low-slung critter, its lustrous brown...
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On any given summer day, gardeners from age twenty to eighty tug weeds from around Brussels...
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On a beautiful summer Saturday morning, Felix Warneken walks around the Ann Arbor Farmers Market...
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Customers often start to line up while the cooks are still doing prep at Kerrytown’s Loomi...
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When it opened about three years ago, I recall Mikette having a fairly standard French brasserie...
Read MoreWalk into the Gracia family’s sprawling four-booth stand at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market, and you’ll see herb varieties from around the world: Thai basil, Lebanese mint, Mexican tarragon.They’re a far cry from...
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In May 2019, Marketplace from American Public Media declared a historic “week in meatless...
Read MoreWhen Mark Hodesh needed a new supplier of soft Bavarian pretzels at Bill’s Beer Garden, Zingerman’s Bakehouse came to his rescue.”Last year Carola Guenther made us excellent pretzels that she baked in the early...
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My husband and I met thirty-two years ago on the dance floor of the Blind Pig–a story whose...
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Avocado toast–my first reaction was to roll my eyes. Brought to us from Australia via L.A....
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Expectations were high for Jim Brady’s, which finally opened in late 2018 after the new...
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My family may declare loudly “no Christmas or birthday presents!” but we can’t seem to stop gifting each other with food–jars of homemade salsa or jelly, fresh-baked cookies snowy with powdered sugar,...
Read MoreImagine making dinner for a hundred and fifty or more every night, after putting out maybe fifty or sixty lunches. Each day is peppered with awkward hitches, some ongoing, some new. Today maybe the prep isn’t quite...
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The Blue Nile, on the busy corner of Fifth Ave. and Washington, may be the restaurant I’ve...
Read MoreIf ever a restaurant communicated both fresh attitude and local history in just a three-word name, Kosmo’s Bop Shop is it. “Bop” celebrates the bibimbap that owner Don “Kosmo” Kwon developed at...
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When we were kids in the 1960s and 70s, Mom occasionally made dinner by opening cans of La Choy...
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