Bacon Street Fair! Sunday, July 3rd

From 11 am – 2 pm we’ll be at the Ann Arbor Artisans Market in the historic Kerrytown Market. Sample bacons! Eat bacon dishes! Meet bacon makers! Declare your Bacon-dependence!

Bring your kids! And please, come hungry! Oh, do come hungry! There will be much delicious food to taste and buy.

This fair is a fundraiser for the Washtenaw 4-H. The Fair is open to the public. Donation requested for entry.

Who’s Coming to Camp Bacon?

Saturday, July 2nd, 8:30-4:30pm • At  Zingerman’s Roadhouse · 2501 Jackson Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103

We’ve got bacon maker Allan Benton coming back. Chef Andrea Reusing from Lantern restaurant in Chapel Hill is coming up to do a special dinner at the Roadhouse on Thursday night featuring bacon and her new book, Cooking in the Moment. Molly Stevens will be back as well—her last book All About Braising is really one of the great cookbooks; anyone who really wants to learn serious cooking should check it out, and she’s a great teacher too. Brian Polcyn, chef at 5 Lakes Grill will be coming. He co-wrote Charcuterie which is probably the best book out on that subject, not to mention that he’s a talented chef, nice and funny too. He’ll be doing some teaching about how to cure bacon. Plus we’ve got Meg Noori doing something on the history of bacon in the Native American community and reading bacon poetry in Ojibwe. Mark Essig is coming up from Asheville to talk about the history of the drovers (the people who moved the pigs from farm to city). Food historian Jan Longone from the Clements Library will share some bacon history.

Which reminds me—we’ll be showing award winning documentary film maker Joe York’s new film, which features Emile and Caw Caw Creek. Apparently Emile is quite the tango dancer, which you can see in the film. I think I’m gonna work on him to do a bacon tango for us. And of course there’s loads of bacon to eat all through the day. People who come to Camp will probably taste about ten or twelve different bacons, and most all of them in a couple different forms. Plus more bacon poetry!

-Ari

Tickets are $195/person. Includes breakfast, lunch and more bacon than you knew you could eat! Proceeds benefit the Southern Foodways Alliance.

Zingerman’s Newsletter July-August 2011

Check this out! We’re so proud of Shelby Kibler from BAKE!, Zingerman’s fantasy camp for home bakers, demonstrating how to make whoopie pies, a “classic American dessert,” on WGN-TV in Chicago. Shelby traveled down for the in-studio segment and it aired nationally on WGN today. Way to go, Shelby!

He’s coming to The Ark in Ann Arbor on July 1. Don’t miss it! He pretty much tore the roof off the Roadhouse patio last year. And this time he’s playing a double bill with Jon Langford!

Come on out for this fun & yummy annual picnic with a purpose! There’ll be great things to eat, including grilled chicken, gourmet sausages, vegetables and delicious desserts, as well as kid’s games, live music, a food-inspired silent auction, beer and wine, and more. All of the proceeds help Food Gatherers to distribute 5 million pounds of food annually to 160 non-profit programs serving low-income families in Washtenaw County.  Tickets are available at all Zingerman’s businesses and here.

Grillin’ for Food Gatherers
Sunday, June 12, 3-8pm
Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds,
5055 Saline-Ann Arbor Rd.
$50 Adults ($40 is tax-deductible) in advance; $60 at the door
$10 Kids ages 3-13 ($7 is tax-deductible), Kids age 3 and under are free

Food Gatherers is not only Michigan’s first food rescue program, but the first program of its kind to be founded by a for-profit business, our own Zingerman’s Delicatessen. In 1997, Food Gatherers also assumed responsibility for the county food bank. Today, it is an independent 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization governed by a board of directors and operated by 19 staff people and more than 5,000 different dedicated volunteers. Food Gatherers is now the primary distributor of food in Washtenaw County.