What follows is our official exit interview with Merritt Bankes, who just recently left Ypsilanti, headed for Tecumseh. MARK: Can you please state your full name for the record? MERRITT: Merritt Bankes. MARK: OK, let’s start at the beginning… What kind of kid were you? MERRITT: Feral! A free-range chicken! [Laughs.] I didn’t even wear […]
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Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Merritt Bankes
Posted in Michigan, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Argus Farm Stop, art school, Chicago, Columbia College, Diet for a New America, drugs, Elbow Room, EMU, environmental activism, environmental protection, exit interviews, feral child, Green Room, Janet Kaufman, John Robbins, loneliness, Merritt Bankes, music, onions, poaching, porch shows, porches, priorities, self harm, substance abuse, Sustainability, Tecumseh, Tom Waits, We The People Growers Association, Woodruff's, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews 4 Comments
Totally Quotable Arlo: “the meat just wants to go home” edition
As of a few months ago, Arlo, who just recently turned four, has decided that, with a few notable exceptions, he’s a vegetarian. I’m not sure how it started, as we never brought the subject of vegetarianism up in any substantive way, but one day he just started asking us if the food that we […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged Arlo, backsliding into veganism, Bacon, chicken nuggets, compassion, diet, meat, Totally Quotable Arlo, veganism 11 Comments
Chef Alex Young of the Roadhouse on his work at Cornman farms and the importance of preserving foodways
In celebration of Zingerman’s making the front page of the New York Times business section this weekend, I thought that I’d post this recent interview I did with Zingerman’s Roadhouse managing partner, and James Beard Award-winning chef, Alex Young. Alex, as you may know, when he’s not serving up “really good American food” at the […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Food, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized Also tagged Africa, Alex Young, American food, Amy Evans, Ari Weinzweig, cattle, Cornman Farms, country ham, Dexter, England, farm to table, farming, foodways, goats, Hilton, local food, local food production, meat, meat production, organic farming, oyster shells, Southern Foodways Alliance, Spaghetti Bolognese, tabby, Zingerman's, Zingerman's Roadhouse 5 Comments