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L’Etivaz: Little-Known, Much-Loved Mountain Cheese

An exceptional taste of 19th-century Switzerland Once upon a culinary time, a time when attention spans were not in the news very often, a time before websites, cell phones, Instagram, and almost every secret on … Continued

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A Superb Special Meal Featuring the Foods of Central Asia.

Metro Detroit native Anna Ansari comes to dinner at Miss Kim In the spirit of what I wrote up top, Iran has also been in the news in tragic and terrible ways over recent weeks. … Continued

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Score Yourself Some Simit This Weekend

A Special Bake of THE bread of Turkey on January 23 & 24 Thirty-one years ago this month, in the January 1995 issue of The Atlantic, friend and food writer Corby Kummer published a long … Continued

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Sidle Over to the SideShow for a Good Granola Parfait

You may be thinking, “I know about the Roadshow. What the heck is the SideShow?” What a wonderful question. Happy to offer a good answer to go with it. The SideShow is a coffee trailer … Continued

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Totally Terrific New Miso Tahini Cookies at the Bakeshop

The cookie corollary to an “espresso shot” of sesame Sometimes we work hard to craft a new product so it can make a big impact almost immediately. Other times, we start something for a good … Continued

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Zingerman’s Art Show at the Ann Arbor Public Library

Decades of our handcrafted artwork to see and buy If you’d have told me 44 years ago that the new little Deli we were a couple of months from opening would one day have an … Continued