Warning: this news may increase your need for a nosh! Zingerman’s aesthetic is instantly recognizable and well-known here in Ann Arbor and across the country, due to our unique use of hand-painted images gracing the windows of our flagship Deli, the walls of Zingerman’s Roadhouse, the pages of our catalog, and beyond. It’s all thanks […]

Great Zingerman’s gift for a T-shirt lover you love! Given that he was born and raised in Japan and I grew up in the American Midwest, author Haruki Murakami and I seem to have a surprising number of things in common. As I wrote about last summer, we each run every day, write a lot, and […]

Zingerman’s Delicatessen is thrilled to announce its partnership with Ferndale Market to offer better than ever turkey!

Everyone asks us this question. The short answer is, we made it up. The long answer goes like this: When we first started talking about opening the business back in fall of ’81 we wanted a name that would convey the sense of a good local deli something that would sound “Jewish,” and offer anyone who heard […]

I’ve long thought that I have the best food job in the world. I work with amazing people, in a diverse college town in Michigan, and I get to bike to work more often than not. Another reasons I feel this way is the quality of ingredients that I get to taste and work with […]

Twice a year homemade gefilte fish appears in the Deli case. I’m always happy to see it because it brings back big memories for me! I know I’m not alone—food critic Mimi Sheraton says it’s “part of the holy trinity of Jewish holiday eating: chicken soup, chopped liver, gefilte fish.” Having grown up regularly eating […]