What is a cheesemonger? Just for fun, guess the right answer: A farmer who makes cheese. An artist who makes sculptures out of cheese. An athlete who chases wheels of cheese down mountains. A merchant who shares their cheese expertise with shoppers. Did you guess d? Nice work! That’s what Zingerman’s Delicatessen cheesemonger (aka professional […]

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 the fold: the campaign to Save The Emmentaler® is calling for our help! Gourmino’s Save The Emmentaler initiative is committed to […]

Grace Singleton, co-managing partner of Zingerman’s Delicatessen, and I persevered through internet issues (at times it sounded like we were talking to each other through fast food drive-through speakers from the ’80s) to talk about everything from her culinary background to what’s ahead in the new year at the Deli. She shared what it’s like […]

Amazing artisan offering from the Italian Dolomites at the Deli One of my favorites from the many great vinegars we have at the Deli is probably among the least known. It’s not that surprising—very few folks walk around Ann Arbor, angsting that they haven’t been able to score some quince vinegar. If I can convince […]

A rare treat pops up at the Deli One of the Deli’s most delicious treasures comes in a modest, two-inch-tall jar—so unassuming that most people are likely to walk right past it. Still, there it sits on the retail shelves, a short, squat little glass bottle, holding some of the most incredible roasted peppers you’ll […]

Newly Arrived Olive Oil from Western Greece Captain Vassilis Constantakopoulos was born in 1935 in the small village Diavolitsi in Messenia in the southwest of Greece—due north of the town of Kalamata, and due east of the island of Sicily that I wrote about last week. As a young man, he was forced to flee the […]