This month’s newsletter is all about your new Chocolate Lady – Margot Miller! Ta-dah! Margot’s official first day at the helm is August 1st and I am so very excited for her. I asked her some questions – some serious, some goofy, all enlightening – as a sort of icebreaker. I laughed (really hard), [...]
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The Historical Twists and Turns of Traditional Pasta
“Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.” —Sophia Loren
“And art is always about relationship — to the material, to the self, and to the world in all its chaos and intrusion, its terror and its glory.” —Jeanette Winterson
Weird things happen when I least expect them. I was lying in bed, lamenting having had my third surgery in two months and working my way through the Sunday New York Times, when I came across a piece by Jeanette Winterson buried in the back of the Book Review.
“Art,” she wrote, “is always about relationship.”
Retail Folk's Foodie Blogs
Vanessa Sly
After working as a pastry chef in Chicago and Las Vegas, I still work with food but in a different way. I’ve left the kitchen, and now help source, purchase, merchandise and sell foods for Zingerman’s Delicatessen in Ann Arbor, MI. We focus on full flavored foods based on traditional recipes, and I’m happy to share their stories with the people I interact with every day. I help organize food-based educational events, teach classes, and avidly read and learn about new foods as often as I can. With this blog I hope to share what I’m learning with a broader audience, inspiring appetites and a desire to learn and travel in search of understanding what we’re eating and how interesting it can be.
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Jen “JJ” Stevenson
Zingerman’s Deli Alumna, Jen worked at Zingerman’s Deli for 4 1/2 years, from June 2005-Nov 2009, in retail, primarily behind the cheese counter. Currently Jen and her husband are Zingerman’s Roadhouse regulars. Jen also began working on Cornman Farms in April 2010. She is on the steering committee for the Westside Farmer’s Market and a docent at the Clements Library in the Culinary Archives. Basically, Jen is your all around Foodie. Enjoy her blog as she enjoys writing it.
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Corinna Borden Parker
Corinna is a writer, an eater, an azalea, a lover of beets, a walker, a backyard chicken keeper, a dog scratcher, a cat tummy rubber, a bathroom singer, a farmers market manager, a gardener, a meditator, a wife, a sister, and a believer in miracles.
Heli
When I was little, my mom did a lot of catering from home. Naturally, I spent hours watching her and helping her in the kitchen: decorating cakes (during the baking my siblings and I were usually encouraged to go outside so the cake wouldn’t drop), sticking poppy seeds on top of sandwich rolls, and puffing chapatis. I still spend most of my time surrounded by food. I love all aspects of food production from planting seeds and harvesting fruits and vegetables to cooking and preserving them and of course eating them. My favorite Saturday morning activity is going to the farmers market so I tend to make things that are in season using fresh and local ingredients as much as possible.
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