America’s secret fruit shows up on the Southside It was nearly 20 years ago that we started the project to make Paw Paw Gelato at the Creamery. At the time, hardly anyone in Ann Arbor knew this old American fruit. Today, I’m happy to say, paw paws are getting more and more popular! I’ve seen […]

Super-tasty Zingerman’s synergy by the spoonful! In the interest of organizational health and well-being, I’m almost always thinking of win-win ways to bring together different parts of our diverse organization. I’m not sure who actually first thought of this one, but I love it! What if you take the Bakehouse award-winning, nationally renowned, Sour Cream […]

All about achaar (and Brooklyn Delhi, too, for that matter!) Achaar (uh-char) is a South Asian relish condiment. It’s often referred to as an Indian pickle or South Asian pickle, but as Chitra Agarwal, founder of Brooklyn Delhi and author of Vibrant India, explains, “it has nothing to do with the flavor of dill pickles […]

We’re governing with grace… and Grace (Grace Singleton, that is!) “Is Zingerman’s still run by its founders?” you ask. That’s a great question. We’ll answer with a tale, both old and new (just like our pickles!). What began with the Delicatessen, founded in 1982 by Paul Saginaw and Ari Weinzweig, now includes 11 food and […]

A perfect pairing comes together In Secret #39, in Part 3, Managing Ourselves, I wrote a whole essay about creativity. It was a subject that, oddly, in all our many years in business, I’d given little thought to until, suddenly, during the economic collapse of 2009 and ’10, we started getting a bunch of requests for me […]

Great summer vegetarian supper at the Roadhouse This summer special features some lovely local produce and the world-class, historically-significant, organic Carolina Gold Rice we get from Anson Mills down in South Carolina. The main feature of the dish is the organic local Lion’s Mane mushrooms we’ve been getting from the fine folks at Stoney Creek […]