Over the 38 years we’ve been in business, I’ve worried about, talked through, and planned for hundreds of strange scenarios. I’m a planner, and here at Zingerman’s we’ve been forecasting and budgeting and organizing for probably 30 years now. But, as Mike Tyson once famously said, “Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in […]

  The kitchen table is now the urgent center of many of our lives. We’ve always gathered around the table together to eat, to sustain, to grow, to share our lives with each other. Now the act of eating together has suddenly become one of the few communal pleasures we are able to enjoy. Zingerman’s […]

  Friends, colleagues, customers, community, I’ve been holding off a bit on writing something over the last week. In the flood of messages about the Coronavirus (Covid-19), I keep waiting to be able to offer some new insight, a more holistic approach, or better still—a solution. I alternate between wishing it wasn’t happening (denial) and […]

“Friendship is often more enduring than love and less exacting.” Emma Goldman My Good Friend Frank; 40 Years of Fine Food, Friendship, and Fun Back in the spring of 1978, I started my first job in restaurants. It was washing dishes at a place a few of you might well still remember, called Maude’s, over near […]

  In the midst of celebrating the 10th anniversary of Zingerman’s Candy Manufactory, we wanted to shine a spotlight on Salina Loughlin, one of the Candy Cooks, who has been with the company for just a smidge over 4 years.  Salina can often be seen through the Candy Store’s production window stretching peanut brittle and […]

by Dory Fox, University of Michigan PhD Candidate, 2017 One weekend a few years ago in Brookline, Mass., the farmer, filmmaker, and food-trucker, Talia Glass and her husband were getting ready to go for a hike and wanted to buy foods for a picnic lunch. They were thinking of stopping someplace where they could buy […]