Ann Arbor’s Selma Cafe: Open for Breakfast, Community, and Conversation

A few posts ago, Maria wrote a glowing review of Diner for a Day, a breakfast/fundraiser hosted by Lisa Gottleib and Jeff McCabe, featuring local foods and supporting local farmers and purveyors. As I’m sure you gleaned from Maria’s post, it was a successful and delicious event, one that is inspiring some repeat performances–and, we [...]

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Carrot and fennel confit

Something simple for supper I enjoy using this blog for my musing on food and life and the spaces in between and for connecting with my food communities — the friends and comrades within walking distance and those in far flung places. I hope people enjoy reading it for all those reasons too. But sometimes, [...]

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A Great Way To Start the Day

A couple of weeks back, there was an email in my inbox from my friend Scott inviting the G3 and any and all friends to Diner for A Day, a fundraiser breakfast to support local farmers and producers and the completion of Chris Bedford’s latest film “Coming Home”, as well as providing seed money for [...]

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Mushroom Bourguignon: a Meatless Version of the French Classic

Upon ordering roasted marrow bones and toast at an Ann Arbor restaurant recently, the waiter asked me if I was from France, or had lived in France. When I told him that I had studied there years ago, he said, “Well that explains it. Only people who have spent time in France ever order marrow [...]

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Tonight on the Food Network

Just a quick note to pass on a bit of local food celebrity news that I gleaned this morning at Diner for a Day: local cake artist Heather Anne Leavitt will be on the Food Network Challenge this evening at 8pm, along with Courtney Clark of Cake Nouveau. Check it out!

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Shana’s New York Eats

. . . and I’m back. Both from several very full days in New York for work–where I attended a great, geeky, publishing conference and where I of course managed to find lots of good things to eat–and back to the blog as well. I won’t bore you with my tales of winter woe that [...]

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