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The Foodist: When You Need a Break From Cooking, These Ann Arbor Restaurants Offer Take Away and Delivery
Ann Arbor restaurants offering takeout or delivery:
Afternoon Delight at 251 E Liberty St. is offering carryout and curbside pickup. Call 734-665-7513 to order.Aventura at 216 E Washington St. is offering takeout. Call 734-369-3153 or…
The Foodist: A More Perfect Popper
by Ari LeVaux
Hot peppers and cheese are a winning combination. Whether it’s red flakes on a slice of pizza, a spicy tray of cheese-drenched nachos or a serving of ema datshi (a Himalayan dish of hot chile and molten cheese), the action…
The Foodist: Doing the Brussels Hustle
by Arie LaVaux
After the first big frost of the season, things got real at the farmers market. Buyers arrived, knowing it was their last chance for warm-weather crops. I was there for tomatoes and felt like a big spender with my two…
The Beet Goes On
by Ari LeVaux
Beets are a challenging food. No vegetable feels so much like work-or tastes so much like dirt. Which surely means beets must be supremely good for you.
But dense tubers are problematic to mess with. You can't just…
Meal-Kit Freezer Packs Are Rapidly Accumulating at a Landfill Near You
by Kiera Butler
People love to complain about the wastefulness of meal-kit delivery companies like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh. The baggies that hold a single scallion! The thousands of miles of shipping! The endless cardboard boxes!…
That Toum: Lebanese Garlic Sauce
by Ari LeVaux
Garlic season is upon us, which means that last year's garlic will be on sale alongside the new crop. Don't be fooled by a sale price; squeeze each head you buy. It should be as hard as a baseball. If not, there is probably…
Life on a Pickle’s Edge
by Ari LeVaux
Pickling can happen any time there are ripe veggies for the picking. Now it's cucumber season, which lasts basically all summer long. Beans are upon us too. Soon come the pickled peppers, large batches in large jars,…
Garlic Scapes Enhance Any Frittata
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…
Metro Times Reporting Bigalora Owners to Buy Arbor Brewing Company
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…
That Most Decadent of Vegetables
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…