The Zingerman’s Roadhouse is excited to announce that on March 24, executive chef and managing partner Alex Young received his second James Beard Award nomination for Best Chef in the Great Lakes Region. One of five nominees, Chef Alex Young is the only chef from Michigan. Check out his interview with Sylvia Rector of the Detroit Free Press.

Margaret Johnson is a prolific author and a noted authority on both Irish cuisine and on the ways Irish culinary traditions are represented in the U.S. In advance of her trip to Ann Arbor to join us for a special evening of Irish-American supper and stories at the Roadhouse on March 19 we asked her a few questions about how she came to love the food of the Emerald Isle.

Ari: Tell me your background.
Margaret: I was born into a 3rd generation Irish…

It’s time to highlight Irish food
Article published Tuesday, March 11, 2008

St. Patrick’s Day is Monday, so it’s time for Irish food. Traditional Irish foods are gaining international attention, led by the Allen family at the Ballymaloe House in County Cork.

In keeping with that movement, Zingerman’s of Ann Arbor will bake loaves of Irish Brown Soda Bread at the Bakehouse through Monday. Dinners are planned at the Delicatessen and at the Roadhouse showcasing the flavors of Irish cuisine.

On Monday from 4…

Gullah Cooking
Posted by Nan Bauer, News Special Writer February 20, 2008 07:42AM
Categories: story

Nan Bauer
News Special Writer

Sallie Ann Robinson doesn’t shake hands. She hugs. I almost get one when I first meet her in the kitchen at Zingerman’s Roadhouse, but she and chef Alex Young are up to their elbows in cornbread stuffing for thick, rosy pork chops. “I’ll hug ya later, darlin’,” she tells me.
Later is at the Rhythm of Gullah Cooking dinner hosted at the Roadhouse that night, one…

If you think about it for more than 15 seconds, you’re going to quickly come to the conclusion that the super-processed, red-dye-number-whatever, cute little maraschino cherries that we all grew up with cannot possibly have been the original item. Just as cream cheese didn’t start out in foil packages with a one-year shelf life and a lot of stabilizer, so too there’s more to maraschino cherries than what they put into the cans of fruit cocktail.

So what were the original…