There are a lot of dark chocolate bars out there hovering in the magical 70% range and they all taste different. Some taste mild and sweet, others taste bitter and tanic. Some are fruity, some are roasty-toasty. Come and taste for yourself! We'll be blind tasting several different dark chocolate bars from around the world, illustrating how — in the grand scheme of things — percent is just a tiny piece of the flavor puzzle.

Zingerman's Deli is proud to host a discussion presented by Roger Sutherland from SEMBA (southeast mich beekeepers association). Roger will present a slide show and discussion designed to give a close-up look at the highly organized honey bee colony. Some attention will be given to the practice and history of beekeeping. The important flower and honey bee relationships, pollination, swarming, and bee communication are also included.

Zingerman's will provide a selection of several single varietal honeys and provide you with several of our favorite foods made with honey for you to taste in conjunction with the discussion.

All of the proceeds from this event are going to support Slow Food Huron Valley.

Taste tea with our resident expert every other Tuesday in an intimate setting. Learn about the different kinds of tea and how to brew them.

$10/person, maximum of 8 people per tasting, call 734.663.3400 to register!

Have you tasted the Balsamic vinegars we keep under lock and key at the Deli? Erika Barbieri's family has been crafting these exquisite elixirs for many generations now. Come listen to this visitor from Modena, Italy, tell you all about balsamic vinegar. A very very rare event.

Taste tea with our resident expert every other Tuesday in an intimate setting. Learn about the different kinds of tea and how to brew them.

$10/person, maximum of 8 people per tasting, call 734.663.3400 to register!

She's the first domesticated food animal, yet her cheeses are rarer in the U.S. than cow or goat's milk cheeses. From Roquefort to Feta, Pecorino Romano to Manchego, this is Jess' homage to sheep.

Vosges is consistently one of the best-selling chocolates at the Deli. Perhaps it is the allure of the exotic chocolate bar — the magic of pairing a dark or milk chocolate with chilies, berries, salts and teas. It's like dressing up chocolate for the prom! Yet, even after the curiosity of combinations like sweet curry and milk chocolate have worn off, folks still love these bars for their balance and flavor.

As versatile, if not more so, than the spices in your kitchen, top-notch olive oil can be intimidating to use. Let Solomon help you take it less seriously while appreciating it even more.

Zingerman's Creamery's fresh cheeses are made the way cheeses were in the 1800s. We'll lead you through our range of cheeses and tell you about artisanal cheesemaking's non-secrets.

Taste tea with our resident expert every other Tuesday in an intimate setting. Learn about the different kinds of tea and how to brew them.

$10/person, maximum of 8 people per tasting, call 734.663.3400 to register!

Frequently heard at the Deli cheese counter is this sentence: "I don't really like goat cheese." We'll dispel the myth that goat cheese is, well, goat-y. From fresh City Goat from Zingerman's Creamery to unpronounceable Garrotxa, this tasting will change your mind about goat cheese. We kid you not.

A small bean-to-bar chocolate company in France, Pralus is one of those brands that you should be able to recognize with your eyes closed and after this tasting, you will be able to. It is truly one of the great chocolates of the world, deserving of a place in your mental choco-database.

We've decided to open our patio Greek style. The Greeks call their open airs markets agoras — open spaces in which people gather. And we're inspired by the idea. We'll put out tables with olives, feta, manouri, olive oils, vinegars and other great foods that come from sun drenched Greek islands with azure skies. Stop by our version of an agora, shop a little, taste a little, perhaps partake of a plate of mezze, Greek style small bites and help us kick off the Summer in style.

A tour of the cuisine of one of the world's oldest and greatest civilizations with one of its most knowledgeable and passionate proponents, Sheree Cardoos from Mt. Vikos. She will focus on Mezze, the delectable bite-sized snacks that grace the beginning of a Greek meal. Barrel aged feta, olives, olive oil, watermelon salad... join us!

Taste tea with our resident expert every other Tuesday in an intimate setting. Learn about the different kinds of tea and how to brew them.

$10/person, maximum of 8 people per tasting, call 734.663.3400 to register!

In addition to being chocolate-hounds at the Deli, we work really hard to track down the best, full-flavored, traditionally made candies in the world for you. In this tasting, we'll talk about the history of sweets, the basic science of sugar and the main categories of confectionery tasting.

We can't wait — we'll be getting up early and making the rounds of our local farms and market stalls, blinking at strawberries in the dark and waiting to snatch newly appearing greens out of the soil hours before serving. Summer is here and we are going to pile our banquet table high with the first, gorgeous yields of the season. Hand picked asparagus, our legendary RooBarBade, the first strawberries, the first local greens, the first everythings, selected by Chef Rodger and the kitchen crew and transformed into a breathless, multi-course song to the season that sizzles with the Zing.

Bringing Greek cuisine fame worldwide is the horiatiki, "villager's salad" Tasting and using the best ingredients, participants will build their own versions as we explore the culinary permutations of the Greek salad.