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April 30 in Ann Arbor: Three Cooks, Two Dinners, One Special Evening

NYT writer Eric Kim and award-winning author Matt Rodbard come to Miss Kim On Tuesday, April 30, Ji Hye and the Miss Kim crew will be hosting a pair of nationally known food writers! Together, they will put together a marvelous meal that will almost certainly sell out! I figured I’d give you the heads […]

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Potlikker Fish Stew at Zingerman’s Roadhouse

A big bowl of Southern comfort in this wonderful seafood stew Without a doubt, one of my favorite foods from the Roadhouse—and I get to eat a lot of good food—is the Creole Potlikker Fish Stew. We’ve been serving it for nearly a decade now, and with each passing week, I think it accumulates even […]

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Ann Arbor Restaurant Week Menu

Miss Kim and the Roadhouse offer up delicious deals It’s time for the annual Ann Arbor Restaurant Week menu, which means cool meals and delicious deals at both Miss Kim and the Roadhouse! It’s Ann Arbor’s bicentennial to make the Restaurant Week work even more fun! Anyone around Ann Arbor likely needs a good excuse […]

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Potato Bacon Rétes at the Bakehouse

Flaky, filled Hungarian pastry for breakfast, lunch, or dinner The Bakehouse’s work with Hungarian foods has been, for me, one of the most inspiring stories to come out of the ZCoB in the 21st century. It’s a testament to what the willingness to study deeply, to go to the source to learn, to stick with […]

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Darjeeling Tea, First Flush from the Lingia Estate

The first picking of the 2023 spring harvest hits the Deli’s shelves In the “ABC of Zingerman’s Food Philosophy” that you’ll find in the new pamphlet, “A Taste of Zingerman’s Food Philosophy,” you’ll see this superfine tea under “D”: D is for Darjeeling. More specifically, First Flush Darjeeling Tea. This is the very limited supply […]

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New Yorker Onion Rolls from the Bakehouse

A Special Onion Rolls Bake for July 1st through 4th Back in the early months of 1982, Paul and I drove all over the Detroit area together, going from one bakery to another, to try rye bread. The one we settled on, for whatever reasons of fate and good fortune, was the only one that would […]

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