The Deli Dish

Category: Ari’s Favorites

  • Dobos Torta: New and Improved!

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews The Bakehouse’s fantastic version just got better still! Dobos Torta is the creation of József Dobos who first developed it in his Budapest bakery back in … Continued

  • Spruce Tip Bresaola from Smoking Goose

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Delicate dry-cured beef from Indiana If you’re looking for a great new way to accent your eating, scope out this Spruce Tip Bresaola from the folks at Smoking … Continued

  • New Yorker Onion Rolls from the Bakehouse

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews An early September Special Bake Back in the early months of 1982, Paul and I drove all over the Detroit area together going from one bakery … Continued

  • Apple Rétes Made with Rare “Transparent Apples”

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Special Hungarian Apple “strudel” from the Bakehouse In Hungary, what Germans and Austrians call strudel is known as “rétes” (pronounced “ray-TESH”). If you go to Hungary, … Continued

  • Making Greek Salad at Home

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews An August homage to Ann Arbor’s Greek community In his inaugural address as University of Michigan’s president in 1852, Henry Tappan shared a piece of his … Continued

  • True North Bread from the Bakehouse

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews True wheat, now available every day! The commitment everyone at the Bakehouse has made to this bread is a great example of artful thinking at work. … Continued

  • Cervelle de Canut from Zingerman’s Creamery

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Classic herbed cream cheese of Lyon I love little-known local specialties. Many of the most popular foods we work with at Zingerman’s began that way. Balsamic … Continued

  • A Simple and Tasty Tomato Sauce

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews You can make this tomato sauce in your own kitchen in as few as 15 minutes! When August arrives, it marks the start of the six … Continued

  • Bonajuto Chocolate from Modica

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews An ancient way of crafting chocolate, carried on in Sicily I first heard about the Dolceria Bonajuto in the fall of 2002. Three different food people—all … Continued