422 Detroit Street, Ann Arbor MI 48104 Deli: 734.663.3354 (DELI), Next Door Café: 734.663.5282 (JAVA) HAnds-oN baking clASseS 3723 Plaza Drive Upstairs at the Next Door Coffee Shop Zingerman's Zingfeast Italiano 7-9pm (unless otherwise noted) Thu., February 11 • 7-9pm • UPND 734.761.7255 Deli TasTIngs $40/person, $70/pair Special Tasting: California Foods This is a one-night-only chance to take your taste Noodling about The Teas of India Wed., February 10 • 7-9pm buds on a gustatory tour of Italy and enjoy the re- Strudelling gional Italian cuisine of your dreams. Chef Rodger Tue., January 12 • 7-9pm $20 in advance/$25 at the door • limit 30 people Fri., Jan. 29 • 1-4pm • $75 and his team design an indulgent five-course menu, We take a grapefruit size piece $20 in advance/$25 at the door • Our very own Paul K. will blow your mind sourcing the best fresh ingredients and selecting of strudel dough and stretch it 20 person limit with tastes from all over California. The favorites from Zingerman’s extensive pantry of out to cover a 24 sq. ft. table. Oh, Come learn about the plethora of teas Governator would be proud of this unique Italian foodstuffs. The meal will be sumptuous and but before you learn how to pull coming to us from the Asian subcontinent. showing of olive oils, vinegars, artisanal the atmosphere will be cozy. Take advantage of our the dough, you’ll learn how to We’ve taken the popular Steep! tea tasting cheeses and much more. Mark your calen- Valentine’s Day pair pricing and invite a friend or mix it and we’ll make sweet and series and upped the ante with food and tea dar and get your tickets soon; Paul has a fol- bring a date to share the experience. Reserve your savory fillings to finish it off. pairings to stimulate your palate and sati- lowing and his tastings tend to sell out fast. spot early and come hungry! ate your stomach. Whether you are curious about the different flushes of Darjeeling or Swiss Cheese Fondue looking for a way to spice up a chilly, Janu- Sandwich of the month Bakin’ with Bacon Wed., February 17 • 7-9pm Tue., Feb. 9 • 5:30-9:30pm • $125 ary night, this will be a tasting to remember. $25 per person • 30 person limit January: Evan's Even Keel We borrowed this idea from the Deli’s own Evan We'll be using the power of Pasta and Sauce If you’ve eaten fondue in a Swedish, who enjoyed a version of this sandwich bacon to flavor three amazing Tue., January 19 • 7-9pm Swiss chalet during a winter when he was a boy growing up in Virginia. Perfect- baked goods, all in honor of $20 in advance/$25 at the door • snowstorm, you will probably ly spiced pastrami and oven-melted Grafton ched- Ari's latest book, Zingerman's 30 person limit agree that it is one of the most dar cheese on pumpernickel bread, served with a Guide to Better Bacon book (on beautiful and romantic foods Think you know everything there is to side of our homemade applesauce for dipping or sale now at all Zingerman's loca- on the planet. It evokes warmth and you know about pasta and sauce? Curious to spreading on thick.­$12.50/one­size tions). You'll make a version of should have our flawless recipe for this see if you can learn something new? Should our wildly popular peppered ba- classic winter experience. you add oil to the pasta water? Does it mat- February: Gaye's High-Bid Fare-Well con farm bread, bacon cheddar scones (found in the book) and ter when you add the salt to the boiling 3rd Annual Askinosie Designed by the Hope Clinic auction winner, water? What does alcohol/wine do to the bacon pecan sandy cookies. Chocolate Tasting! Details this sandwich is a sure cure for the mid-winter tomato sauce on a molecular level? Did we page 3! blues. Roasted turkey and oven-melted Swiss get your attention? Tue., February 9 • 7-9pm Check out the full schedule cheese, sandwiched between two of our fa- and register for classes at mous fried latkes. Served with a side of apple- sauce and/or sour cream. Grab a fork and knife www.bakewithzing.com Please call 734.663.3400 to save a seat. and dig in—this is the ultimate comfort food See our full schedule at www.zingermansdeli.com sandwich.­­$12.50/one­size Roadhouse Special Dinners are 5-course family-style affairs with a little history and Learn to Make a LOT of food featuring writers, chefs, authors and more from our own community and all Fresh Mozzarella around the country. Every Saturday in January & February Noon to 2pm • $45 advance/$50 door Mardi Gras Learn how to make fresh, handmade Celebration! #85 mozzarella. You'll get the know-how #84 Tue., February 16 @ 7pm • “First Tuesday” to do it in your own kitchen and $45/dinner Tasting! take home a lot of cheese! In a mid-winter break from the cold, the Roadhouse explores Jan 5 &√ Feb 2 • 5-6pm 5th Annual African American Dinner the foods of New Orleans Join us monthly for an open-to-the-pub- Cheese Tastings Selling Their Soul: The History of in this Mardi Gras lic, no-reservation-required cupping. Sit January African American Street Vendors festival. Chef Alex down with Zingerman's Coffee Company manag- From Ann Arbor, With Love ing partners Allen and Steve and sample some Tue., January 26 • 7pm • $45/dinner Young will craft a Sun., January 17 • 4-6pm • $25 new offerings, some old favorites, and some menu traveling back Our cheesemakers guide you We welcome back Adrian Miller as our experimental batches and learn how to discern to the pre-Acadian culinary through the history and science of special guest for the second year. Adrian's the subtle distinctions among the world's influences in that region. cheesemaking and give you a guided research for a book on the history of soul finest coffees. tour of the wide-variety of our cheeses food in America brings us a flavorful explo- Beefsteak Dinner c. 1888 ration of African American street vendors Future tastings will happen the first from fresh to mold-ripened to aged. Tue., March 16 @ 7pm • $45/dinner Tuesday of each month, 5-6pm around the country. February To celebrate an American tradition reach- A former Special Assistant to President ing back over a century to New York City, Free Open House Some Like It Hot! Clinton and current Senior Policy Advisor to the Roadhouse welcomes food Sun., February 21 • 4-6pm • $25 Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., Adrian has historian Jan Longone who will Every Saturday in January • 10-11am Cheese is a great way to spice up a a passion for food that leads him to spend talk about the lost tradition • Meet the Coffees! party! We'll ease you in with a really his free time as a certified barbecue judge #86 of the beefsteak dinner. Chef Visit Zingerman’s Coffee Company at their new creamy Detroit Street Brick with just for the Kansas City Barbecue Society and as Alex will craft a menu, using location and join managing partners Allen and a small kick of green peppercorns a board member for the Southern Foodways the pasture-raised local meat Steve as they guide you through and work up to harissa cream cheese! Alliance. raised by local farmers, including some from the world of coffee, giving We'll have gelato to cool you down James Beard-nominated Chef Alex Young will his own Cornman Farms. tips on bean buying, espresso (but it's gonna be chocolate heat, of work with Adrian to craft a menu reflect- making, and home brew- course!). ing the culinary contributions of African ing, and sample coffees American street vendors. from the major growing Creamery Tours regions. Every Sunday • 2pm • $5/person Reservations are encouraged. For reservations to all events stop by 2501 Jackson Ave. or call 734.663.3663 (FOOD) www.zingermansroadhouse.com 3723 Plaza Drive • 734.929.6060 Stop by the Creamery Cheese Shop www.zingermanscoffee.com 734.929.0500 • 3723 Plaza Drive www.zingermanscreamery.com ­1 ISSUE # 218 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2010 KimMerle’s Ten ClaSsic Rules of the Candy WorlD The fact that everyone people’s eyes. Doesn’t mean they’re always right, or Charlie . it’s just that life doesn’t really work like that loves candy wouldn’t seem that I have to do what they want. But really, it’s never in any organization and definitely not around here. But like a problem, but I have to wise, and it’s certainly not very sensitive, to do stuff in the moment, it’s not all that easy to explain—I mean say, it’s led to some interest- without tuning in to the way others might feel first. what do I say? Who wants to be the one to tell a kid ing learning for me over the that Santa doesn’t really exist? NOT ME BABY!) Not only that, but I should have paid more attention last few months. I guess . to what I learned while reading Beth Kimmerle’s clas- it’s been a bit like playing the sic book Candy: A Sweet History. The woman knows 2. Candy is about Memories game Candy Land. It was one of her sugar. She’s probably written and taught more You can tell that people’s attachment to candy isn’t my favorite games when I was five.