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Pasta Friday

Pasta Friday on Tuesday at the Roadhouse A2 in A2: chef, author, and friend Allison Arevalo brings her passion for people and pasta-cooking to Ann Arbor Speaking of pasta . . . maybe you have … Continued

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Going into Business with Emma Goldman

A pamphlet-release event on the evening of Tuesday November 5 at 5:30 at the Roadhouse. How the ideas of an anarchist who died 42 years before we opened the Deli have had a huge influence … Continued

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Roasted Vegetables with Cajun Blackening Spices

Here’s one great recipe from the de Vienne family of Épices de Cru fame.  Easy and excellent!  Our friend Sylviane is a fantastic cook who, like the rest of us, is known to forget things … Continued

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Chicken Hill Black Pepper from India

In his terrific, if also terrifically obscure, little book, Tastes of Paradise, the German historian Wolfgang Schivelbusch says, “The taste for pepper [in medieval Europe] showed symptoms of having become an addiction. Once habituated to … Continued

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Roadhouse Special Dinner #241: From the Mission to the Mitten

I can’t remember when I first started dining at Delfina on 18th Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. Could likely be that I was there for the Fancy Food Show sometime in the late ’90s … Continued

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Lemon(ade) Sorbet from the Creamery

A superior summer sweet that’s sure to brighten your day Speaking of citrus, how about that light, lilting Lemon Sorbet from the Creamery? It’s fantastic! A happy, spritely way to summer-ize any evening! Like all the gelati … Continued