Mo Frechette

Zingerman’s Mail Order recently reorganized their production line to make it faster and more efficient. This got Mail Order partner Mo Frechette thinking about project planning calendars…

*From time to time, we share the writing of our friends and co-workers on this site. Today’s guest post comes from the blog of Zingerman’s Mail Order Managing Partner, Mo Frechette. You can read Mo’s blog here.  Drank No. 4: Two styles of gin and which one is best for a gin and tonic Outside of […]

*From time to time, we share the writing of our friends and co-workers on this site. Today’s guest post comes from the blog of Zingerman’s Mail Order Managing Partner, Mo Frechette. You can read Mo’s blog here.  Sometime in the last decade or so I lost whatever hangup I had about going to restaurants that […]

When Herb Eckhouse decided to locate his acclaimed cured ham house, La Quercia, in Norwalk, Iowa, he didn’t mean it as a statement. He wanted to make a positive impact in the place he’d long ago decided to raise his family. “We wanted to do something for Iowa. Something we can be proud of from […]

Fresh or dried, which is better? Is America concerned about this? Are you talking about it at dinner, arguing one for one pasta style over the other? Frankly, I don’t know if this is a debate or not. If it is I’m sure it ranks very low on the scale of disputes, somewhere far below […]

I wrote down a quote years ago and it’s never left my side. I think it was from a review of a New York restaurant. The author said Spain is “perhaps the only country in the world where it is desirable to serve food that comes in a can.” They were poking fun at the […]