A wonderful bit of chocolatey deliciousness in a buttery pie crust Over the 20-plus years we’ve been making it, Chocolate Chess Pie has quietly become a big favorite here at the Bakehouse. As the New York Times wrote a few years back, chocolate chess pie is “the perfect move for a gathering where some people want pie, […]

Soft hazelnut meringue and a whole bunch of buttercream One of the planet’s premier pastry makers and baking book writers, the Paris-based American David Lebowitz offered, “Yes, marjolaine is a project, but worth it!” He’s writing, of course, about making marjolaine at home. Happily, for folks like me who like the idea of marjolaine but […]

Amazing artisan offering from the Italian Dolomites at the Deli One of my favorites from the many great vinegars we have at the Deli is probably among the least known. It’s not that surprising—very few folks walk around Ann Arbor, angsting that they haven’t been able to score some quince vinegar. If I can convince […]

A rare treat pops up at the Deli One of the Deli’s most delicious treasures comes in a modest, two-inch-tall jar—so unassuming that most people are likely to walk right past it. Still, there it sits on the retail shelves, a short, squat little glass bottle, holding some of the most incredible roasted peppers you’ll […]

Newly Arrived Olive Oil from Western Greece Captain Vassilis Constantakopoulos was born in 1935 in the small village Diavolitsi in Messenia in the southwest of Greece—due north of the town of Kalamata, and due east of the island of Sicily that I wrote about last week. As a young man, he was forced to flee the […]

Spend a week eating and drinking with us in the Mediterranean You might not want to tell the owner of X, but the Colombian author Gabriel Garcìa Màrquez (who won the Nobel Prize the year we opened the Deli in 1982) once said, “Going to Sicily is better than going to the moon.” For a […]