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Special Event: Diverse Dishes from Around the Globe
A Friend-raising and Fund-raising dinner featuring unique ethnic foods
The Roadhouse is honored to host a very special event on Tuesday, July 23rd, in support of an incredible organization: Embracing Our Differences Michigan. We will gather and enjoy delicious ethnic foods from around the globe while we celebrate our diversity, and help raise funds for a very important cause in our community!
Embracing Our Differences is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of art and education to open hearts and celebrate the diversity of the human family. Through the transformative power of the arts, they educate and inspire to create a better world. Started in 2022 by Ann Arbor community activist Nancy Margolis, EOD is centered around an outdoor art exhibit and accompanying K -12 educational programs focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion. The exhibit itself features beautiful and insightful artwork presenting these themes in billboard size, and are selected from submissions from around the world as well as from local artists. The breathtaking installation is open to the public from May to October in Gallup Park and Riverside Park in Ypsilanti. In accompaniment, EOD creates enlightening workshops and lesson plans for teachers and their students about embracing differences, building respect, and celebrating diversity. The work of EOD is powerful and incredibly significant, and the Roadhouse is humbled to be a part of an event that supports their presence in our community.
We are also honored to celebrate our diversity at this gathering with a delicious 4-course dinner, featuring recipes from the Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive at the University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center. This very special collection honors the incredible work of award-winning culinary historian Janice Bluestein Longone, and includes an eclectic body of materials on the American culinary experience dating from the 18th to the early 21st century. It offers extensive documentation of American foodways, including not only recipes but also cultural, social, and economic eating practices. The dishes selected from the collection for this dinner are not only mouth-watering, but represent a broad spectrum of foods that have come about because of the diversity of our nation.
Do not miss what will be an incredible dinner, and an unforgettable event as we gather to embrace the richness of a community as diverse as ours, and support the work of the EOD organization in Ann Arbor!
Menu
Appetizer
Southern Spoon Bread
Soft cornbread made with Anson Mills’ heirloom cornmeal.
Source: Multi-Ethnic Alliance of Ann Arbor: Authentic Recipes, 1980
Soup
Avgolemono
Greek chicken lemon soup.
Source: Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church Greek Kouzina, 1980
Family Style Entrée
Chop Suey
Local chicken and vegetable stir-fry served over Anson Mills’ Carolina Gold rice.
Source:
1906
Swiss Steak
Pasture-raised steak, braised and fried, served with tomatoes and Anson Mills’ antebellum grits.
Source:
Rainbow Trout & Corn Relish
Grilled local trout, topped with a corn and pepper relish. Served with Anson Mills’ Carolina Gold rice.
Source: The Bethel Cookbook : Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1993
Dessert
Indian Pudding
Spiced cornmeal custard, topped with a scoop of Zingerman’s Creamery vanilla gelato.
Source: Dr. Chase’s recipes; or, information for everybody : an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes for merchants, grocers, saloon-keepers, physicians, druggists, tanners, shoe makers, harness makers, painters, jewelers, blacksmith, 1867