A Not So Simple Sunday Supper

One of the pleasant surprises of this little blogging enterprise that we started about a year and a half ago is that it leads to all sorts of adventures. We’ve met new people, learned a lot about the challenges and rewards of owning an independent food business, and eaten better than ever before in our [...]

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End of an Era: everday cook closes tomorrow

UPDATE: Mary just posted a lovely farewell, thank you, and stay tuned post on the lunch@everyday cook blog. I’m back with another service announcement for our Ann Arbor readers. It’s official: despite a great response from the community to Mary Campbell’s proposal to offer memberships, everyday cook in Kerrytown will be closing this Saturday, June [...]

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What to do with squash blossoms

The idea of eating flowers has always struck me as a category mistake, on par with dating guys who still live with their parents or buying cigarettes for minors — something that just should not be done. At upscale restaurants, it sort of irritates me if my salad comes out adorned with edible flowers. Sure, [...]

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The Future of Everyday Cook

Readers of G3 know that we are big fans of everyday cook + everyday wine in Kerrytown. We have written about them a great deal in this space — about cooking classes we’ve attended, lunches we’ve enjoyed, and wines we’re drinking. We’ve posted about their bid for the city’s available liquor license (which they did [...]

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Two Starting-to-Be-Summer Menus

It’s a fickle time of year. I started this post on Memorial Day weekend when summer was just beginning to be possible, when the first real flush of spring greens was filling the market, when we wanted tastes that were light but still a little bit warming in the cool night air. I wanted to [...]

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First of the Farm Share; Returning Home

The g3 have been scattered to the winds again, in far-flung places like Maryland and Vegas and the San Juan Islands. I’ve been immersed in my other, intermittent, life, on Orcas Island (more on that in the next few days). I’m enough of a food nerd that I was actually sad when I realized that [...]

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