by Ari LeVaux For garlic lovers, this time of year is like an early holiday season. As we speak, delicious edible flower stalks called scapes are curling their ways from the tops of hardneck garlic plants. When they are available, it's…

by Tom Perkins | Detroit Metro Times The Detroit Metro Times is reporting that a deal is in the works for the owners of the Neapolitan-style pizza company Bigalora to buy the Arbor Brewing Company's entire U.S. operation. The latter…

by Ari LeVaux Once there was a man named Oscar, who took his steak with asparagus, Hollandaise sauce, and lump crab. That much we know. I first enjoyed this triple-threat of decadence atop a 10,000-ft mountain in Albuquerque, where…

by Emily Marks Two University of Michigan students developed an app designed to help people with food allergies or special diets. They want to make everyday life easier for people who cannot or prefer not to eat certain types of food.…

by Ari LeVaux If you're the kind of person who would make a lifestyle change based on its impact on the climate, you're probably already aware that your food choices impact the molecular balance of the atmosphere in ways pertinent to…

by Patricia Lesko About 50 people from neighborhoods all over Ann Arbor attended a "Nowruz Neighbor" potluck at the Burns Park Senior Center on Sat. March 18 and wished each other “Sal-e Naw Mubarak,” or “Happy New Year” in Farsi, the…

by Ari LeVaux The Pho If you've been living under a rock at the bottom of the ocean for the last decade, you might-might-have missed the ascendency of pho, Vietnam's internationally beloved comfort food. The steaming meal is both soup…

by Ari LeVaux At a small vegetable shop in Milan, Italy, recently, I asked the keeper for radicchio. He inquired as to what I wanted to do with it, because he had several varieties. Was I planning to grill it? Serve it with pasta? Make a…

The Ann Arbor News Editorial Team Zingerman's recently "introduced" its new potato chips, available in three flavors: Detroit Street Barbecue, Tellicherry Black Pepper, and French Grey Sea Salt. This is not the first time Zingerman's…

by Ari LeVaux ACCORDING TO A new report, many scientific studies about nutrition, as well as the trusted experts who disseminate this information to the public, are being funded by the very entities that should be scrutinized. The…