Category Archives: Food

Being sucked into the Amy’s Baking Company vortex

By Mark | May 15, 2013

My intention was to tuck the kids into bed and immediately get to work on a post about Dave Bing’s announcement that he wouldn’t seek a second term as Mayor of Detroit. Unfortunately, though, that’s not what happened. Instead of getting right to work, I decided to dip my toe into the sea of crazy [...]

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Lets’ have a Totally Awesome Feast next year

By Mark | April 28, 2013

I don’t want to take on one more project, so this idea is free to anyone who wants it… Next year, there should be a Totally Awesome Feast in conjunction with Totally Awesome Fest. We should close a street and do it up right. Maybe cook a tofu pig in a pit, or something. As [...]

Also posted in Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Tagged beard basket, beards, cooking with beards, local food, local food production, Mark's big ideas, Patrick Elkins, photos of men with beards, the local food army, thickly-bearded local troubadours, Totally Awesome Feast, Totally Awesome Fest | 10 Comments

Bicycle ice cream delivery comes to Ypsilanti… Introducing Go! Ice Cream

By Mark | April 18, 2013

In the not too distant future, thanks to the efforts of a local man by the name of Rob Hess, Ypsilantians, on hot summer days, will be able flag down a vintage bike and purchase an ice cold cone of handmade ice cream. While I’ve yet to sample his work, which I hear is incredible, [...]

Also posted in Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged Andy Claydon, bikes, Bona Sera, chocolate, Dairy Queen, delivery, dessert, entrepreneurism, food carts, food delivery, food entrepreneurship, ice cream, ice cream truck, Patti Claydon, Rob Hess, sorbet, street food, summer, tricycle, vanilla, vegan, Whitmore Lake, Worksman, Ypsi entrepreneurs, Ypsi immigration interview, Ypsilanti water tower, Zingerman’s Creamery | 22 Comments

Talking boudin, crawfish and Burger King milkshakes with Southern Foodways Alliance oral historian Amy C. Evans

By Mark | March 16, 2013

I had the occasion a few months ago, when doing some research into “the ham of my people” (country ham with redeye gravy), to stumble onto the work of Amy C. Evans, the award-winning, Mississippi-based oral historian of the Southern Foodways Alliance. On a whim, I sent her a random collection of questions, and, as [...]

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Tainted honey, counterfeit eggs, and the impending “fake food” epidemic

By Mark | February 18, 2013

As our population exceeds the carrying capacity of the planet, and natural resources dwindle, I imagine we’ll see more and more companies selling things for human consumption that probably shouldn’t be consumed. While none of the recent examples of “fake food” that I’m aware of rise to the level of the case in China a [...]