New Award-Winning Batch of Pleasant Ridge Reserve Cheese  Carefully crafted by Uplands Cheese in Southwest Wisconsin One of the best cheeses in the world has been made in the south-central Wisconsin town of Dodgeville for nearly thirty years now. Pleasant Ridge Reserve is made—as cheese used to be a hundred and fifty years ago—strictly seasonally. […]

A beautiful bit of British comfort food to cook up at home! I learned about this wonderful bit of British comfort food from David Lockwood, one-time Deli staff member, now long-time partner at Neal’s Yard Dairy (NYD) in London—through whom we get these wondrous wheels—selected specifically for us. David was so enthused that I couldn’t […]

A talk about energy by Anese Cavanaugh in Ann Arbor—Tuesday, March 28! In his beautiful new book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, renowned music producer Rick Rubin writes, There’s a time for certain ideas to arrive, and they find a way to express themselves through us. What Rubin has suggested is a wonderfully succinct […]

A confectionery homage to Catalan almonds at the Candy Store Before there were chocolate shops, and centuries before bonbons became a thing that anyone could even imagine, if you wanted to impress someone you were going to visit and you lived in Spain, you probably took them some turron. This terrific soft almond turron (the top […]

A Korean classic brought to a whole new locally-based level A few years ago, CNN Travel said that bibimbob was one of the “World’s 50 most delicious foods.” I believe that the bibimbob Ji Hye is cooking up at Miss Kim is some of the best of the best. While you can, of course, grab […]

“Empowered: Women Shaping the Future” at the State Theater on Monday, March 13 Thomas Sankara once said, “There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.” With Sankara’s words in mind, […]