Perfectly Imperfect

I am not the kind of woman who makes Pear Croustade with Lemon Pastry and Almonds. No way. That kind of woman, I’d venture, does not have a towering stack of tupperware lids ready to lurch out of the cupboard every time she opens it. She probably does not let a half-peck of pears from [...]

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Tsai Grocery

I was surprised to hear that my fellow G3ers didn’t know about Tsai Grocery, located in that shopping center opposite the Target shopping center. Next to Godaiko. You know? Tsai Grocery rocks. It has an amazing supply of Asian ingredients, primarily Japanese but also Chinese, Thai, Korean, Indian and other areas of the far east. [...]

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What’s Left

I was actually planning to write a post about making the most out of what’s left in season and in the market at October comes to a close, and we see November baring its teeth. I thought about this as a subject sometime on Friday. Saturday morning came around, cold, windy and rainy and only [...]

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Logan: (G)3 Thumbs Up

Anne, Maria and Shana have all separately ended up at Logan within the past few months. Regular readers of this blog (hello you brave and few) have probably noticed that we tend not to be kind to Ann Arbor restaurants. I don’t think we’re cruel, but we are often, well, disappointed. Perhaps we’re [...]

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Straight from Le Dog’s Mouth

In case you’ve been wondering where Jules from the Liberty Street Le Dog has been:

Until Wednesday, soup-lovers longing for some Le Dog goodness will need to hoof it to Main Street, because the owners of this venerable Ann Arbor institution have their priorities right.

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Nigel Slater, My New Hero

Like lots of other people around the blog world, I fell pretty hard for Nigel Slater’s The Kitchen Diaries. It’s homey and elegant at the same time, full of appealing and fairly easy recipes and menu ideas and so wonderfully in tune with the seasons that you really do want to go back to it [...]

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Shana’s Picks for Weekday Dinner Restaurants in Ann Arbor

Recently, I met a woman through work who is new to town. Our first conversation quickly turned to that sometimes engaging, sometimes agonizing topic: Ann Arbor restaurants. She was looking for recommendations for my favorite weekday dinner spots — places you can get a meal for under 15 dollars (not including wine or tip). I [...]

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Egpplants, fall cooking and the public domain

In our day jobs, all three of the Gastronomical 3 spend an inordinate amount of time fretting about intellectual property. Given, the current political and legal climate and Big Money interests in squeezing every actual and potential penny out of intellectual property (but I’m not getting on that soapbox right now), we often find ourselves, [...]

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