Category Archives: Food

Choose your Champion! Our “20 Feet of Meat” fundraiser is now just two weeks away.

By Mark | March 6, 2014

For those of you who missed the debut of the ad for the Wurst Challenge that debuted during last Sunday’s Oscar broadcast, here it is again. We’re less than two days into the campaign, and already we’ve raised almost $500 for Ypsilanti’s FLY Children’s Art Center. Sadly, though, several of our participants have yet to […]

Also posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged Brad Perkins, bratwurst, eating challenges, FLY Children's Art Center, fundraisers, Jason Youngs, Paul Schreiber, sausage, Wurst Bar, Wurst Challenge | 5 Comments

Can we please stop complaining about the Blimpy Burger crowd funding campaign?

By Mark | December 16, 2013

Apparently I have a lot of friends up in arms this evening over the fact that Rich and Chris Magner, the owners of Ann Arbor’s iconic Blimpy Burger, have launched a crowd funding campaign in hopes of raising the money needed to reopen their restaurant in a new location. (As most of you probably know, […]

Also posted in Ann Arbor, entrepreneurism, History, Uncategorized | Tagged 1953, Blimpy Burger, burgers, Chris Magner, crowd funding, fundraising, restaurants, Rich Magner, University of Michigan | 56 Comments

Bee Roll reflects on Beezy’s at the five-year mark… “If we want the world to be different, we have to start creating that world.”

By Mark | November 2, 2013

As interviewed Bee Roll, the owner of Beezy’s, when she was first opening her restaurant on Washington Street, and again as she celebrated her first anniversary, I felt compelled to check in once again when I was reminded that her five year anniversary was approaching… I hope you enjoy the interview. MARK: So, has it […]

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Visit Zingerman’s Creamery at the Downtown Ypsi Farmers’ Market and get free goat cheese with your purchase

By Mark | September 30, 2013

If you happen to be going to the Downtown Ypsi Farmers’ Market today (or any other Tuesday this month), do yourself a favor and print out this new coupon for Zingerman’s Creamery. If you do, you’ll get some of their “Little Ypsi” aged goat’s milk cheese for free, assuming, of course, you buy something else […]

Also posted in Monkey Power Trio, Ypsilanti | Tagged Aubrey Thomason, cheese, coupons, crottin, goat cheese, goats, Little Ypsi, Peter Thomason, You Like-a the Cheese?, Zingerman's, Zingerman’s Creamery | 9 Comments

Taco Tour 2013 recap

By Mark | September 16, 2013

Every year, at about this time, my friend Tom Lennon has been hosting an event called the Taco Tour for those local bicycle enthusiasts loosely aligned under the banner of Bike Ypsi. As I couldn’t make it yesterday, for the 6th annual marathon of corn tortilla-wrapped gluttony, I sent Tom a handful of questions. Following […]