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88% Super Dark Blend Bar from Shawn Askinosie

A contributor to happiness at so many levels! In 1980, while I was still learning to cook the line, Mother Teresa’s team in India rescued a small orphaned boy from the streets of Calcutta. He was … Continued

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Guatemala El Regalito at the Coffee Company

A beautiful brew from the coffee-growing star of Central America March means the rollout of a great newly-arrived single-estate coffee from Guatemala. What we’ve come to know here in recent weeks as El Regalito—“the little … Continued

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Bialys from the Bakehouse – Tuesday, March 3

A terrific traditional taste of Eastern Europe and the Lower East Even 43 remarkable years after opening the Deli, bialys are still mostly a mystery to folks here in Ann Arbor. While bagels long ago … Continued

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Martin’s Handmade Hard Pretzels at the Coffee Company

A Taste of Pennsylvania Dutch Country in Washtenaw County Sometimes we take things for granted. Or maybe it’s that we’ve subconsciously sloughed something off because our early-in-life encounters with it were wholly uninteresting. Even I, … Continued

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Our Annual Pie & Mash Pop-Up at Cornman Farms

British street food to warm up the final weeks of winter In the spring of 2024, BBC’s Paul Howard wrote, While I live ever more distant from my London birthplace, that doesn’t wholly quell its … Continued

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The Extraordinary Nature of the Unordinary

A judge’s call to action, a hip hop band’s act for justice, and other unordinary actions Four years ago, Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt, the same thoughtful and widely respected rabbi who officiated at Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s … Continued