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Chicken-Fried Mushrooms at the Roadhouse

Pepper-spiced deep-fried maitake make for some marvelous eating! One of my favorite new foods in the ZCoB over the last few years, these chicken-fried mushrooms are more than worth making a trip across town to … Continued

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Six Reasons Why We Work to Save The Emmentaler®

When dairy deliciousness and doing the right thing come together While the country seems suffused in controversy on any number of social issues, here’s a cause that could bring anyone who loves great food into … Continued

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Cacio e Pepe Tteokbokki at Miss Kim

A Southern Italian Twist on a Korean Classic Since we opened the Deli in 1982, we have focused on making full-flavored, traditional food. In the context of Sōetsu Yanagi’s writing, they are foods that are all about … Continued

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Brand New Vegan Chocolate Cake from the Bakehouse

Tasty and terrific with vegan vanilla ermine frosting The Bakehouse team has unveiled a newly created vegan chocolate cake! That’s right—lots of flavor and verifiably vegan! Ermine frosting may be new to most 21st-century Americans, … Continued

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AeroPress Brewing at the Coffee Company

Twenty years of brewing up beautiful cups of coffee If you’ve never tried one of the “alternative brew methods” on the Big Brew Board at the Coffee Company, let me invite you here to try … Continued

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Venchi Chocolate Cigars at the Candy Store

Classic confection, influenced by Cuba, handcrafted in Turin Rocco Disderide, who along with his wife Katherine built the building we now know as the Deli back in 1902, was a lifelong lover of tobacco. He … Continued