Ooohs and Aaahs for Big O’s from the Bakehouse Italian designer Giorgio Armani once said, “I love things that age well—things that don’t date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.” These simple but super good oatmeal cookies prove his point for me. Long one of my […]

A well-aged, hard-to-get mountain cheese from the Swiss Alpage I first stumbled on L’Etivaz in the summer of 1994 on a cheese hunting trip to the Alps with my friends Randolph Hodgson from Neals Yard Dairy and Daphne Zepos. At the time, none of us had ever heard of it. We found it by accident—a […]

A man who will help lead the fight against the pandemic puts his signature on an amazing dark chocolate When I first wrote about my friend Shawn Askinosie’s new chocolate bar back in 2019, I asked him a few times who “Zeke” was. I vaguely remembered Shawn saying that Zeke Emanuel was a friend who […]

Miss Kim and Samesa offer a marvelous meatless meal While turkey is the default for Thanksgiving dinners, a significant number of Americans don’t eat it. Though this history is rarely told, the U.S. has a long tradition of vegetarianism. Back in 1821, one William Metcalfe published a pamphlet in Philadelphia entitled, “On Abstinence from the […]

Save the date, because you’re invited! Just Treats! Saturday, October 27th, 2018, 11am to 6pm Hosted by Zingerman’s Candy Manufactory 3723 Plaza Dr., Suite 3, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Costumes are encouraged! Keep reading and you’ll see why! Zingerman’s Candy Company will be hosting they’re Just Treats event and giving away free Milk Chocolately Karamel […]

When I was seventeen years old I worked at a bagel shop in a shopping center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was 1996, I was a senior in high school, I’d already been working since I was fourteen, or really, since I was seven if you count all the years of forced labor babysitting if […]