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Downtown Lansing is always an interesting place to visit. It is comforting how, in a way, it feels unchanged since I roamed its environs looking for sewer drain covers and other extremely artistic …
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Lizy Ferguson
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11/10/22
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Jessica Wheeler, a San Diego native, grew up playing sports before being recruited to play field hockey for Michigan State University. After graduating, she moved to Las Vegas with her college sweetheart
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Sarah Spohn
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11/3/22
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The recipe for toum contains only garlic, salt, lemon juice and olive oil. It’s as thick and creamy as mayo and improves everything it touches. But before it’s time for toum, we have to …
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Ari LeVaux
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11/3/22
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I am not typically a breakfast person. I eat a hardboiled egg most mornings to better metabolize my supplements and caffeine, and then I tend not to think about food for many hours. Some days, however, I awake with a furious hunger
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Lizy Ferguson
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11/3/22
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Being an East Lansing native, I’ve been eating Woody’s Oasis for as long as I can remember. The somewhat startling flavor combination of creamy, bitter tahini and sour, beet-pink pickled …
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Lizy Ferguson
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10/27/22
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Orange foods taste good together. Maybe it’s my imagination or just a co-incidence. Or perhaps it’s the beta-caro-tene pigment found in all orange foods. But probably not because …
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Ari LeVaux
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10/27/22
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She ate / He ate visits Choupli Wood-Fired Kabobs, 4411 W. Saginaw Hwy., Lansing (517) 708-0404 facebook.com/Choupli
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10/20/22
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At the 12th annual Butte Bouldering Bash a few weeks back, rock climbers gathered to scramble up the crystal-flecked boulders that sprout from the earth along the Pipestone section of Montana’s …
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Ari LeVaux
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10/20/22
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Vichyssoise, a chilled soup of potatoes, leeks and onions, has a place alongside ratatouille, French onion soup, gazpacho and other legendary, vegetable-heavy dishes of bucolic origin. Peasant food, …
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Ari LeVaux
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10/14/22
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A probably not that controversial opinion: turkey is a year-round meat. For those who generally avoid pork and beef, it offers a welcome reprieve from the cycle of chicken, tuna and tilapia repeated …
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Lizy Ferguson
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10/14/22
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Naing Myanmar has been on the scene, winning the hearts and minds of the Capital City, since 2014 with its authentic Burmese and Thai selections.
It is the definition of a hole-in-the-wall, …
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Lizy Ferguson
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10/6/22
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It wasn’t love at first bite, but I finally warmed up to the shishito pepper. The name is an abbreviation of shishitogarashi, which means “the tip of this pepper looks like a lion’s face” in Japanese.
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Ari LeVaux
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10/6/22
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Lansing might not be known as “Beer City, USA” like our friends on the west side of the state, but the 517 area still has a plentiful assortment of locally made craft beers and breweries ...
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Sarah Spohn
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10/6/22
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At my local farmers market the other day, I was watching the stand of a farmer friend as he made the rounds. I chatted with shoppers, taking their money as if I were the farmer and silently taking …
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Ari LeVaux
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9/29/22
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By ARI LEVAUX
Pity the misfit tomatillo, aka the Mexican husk tomato. Most cooks don’t know what to do with that swaddled orb that looks like a paper lantern and tastes like some …
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Ari LeVaux
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9/22/22
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Braving a sit-down restaurant in Okemos with the kiddos.
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9/22/22
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Good Truckin’ Diner is known for creative twists on classic American diner food, plus tacos.
They offer an array of interesting options like jackfruit, spicy maple syrup, …
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Chelsea Lake Roberts
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9/15/22
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An odd tradition – sea lamprey pie – linking the Great Lakes to Great Britain’s Royals and is expected to continue with the crowning of King Charles III.
Lampreys …
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Doug Tamru
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9/9/22
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By ARI LEVAUX It began with my friend Amy Alkon gushing about Dietz & Watson brand kosher dill pickles, which she calls “the crowning glory of picklehood.”
Alkon is an …
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Ari LeVaux
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9/8/22
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Plans are being finalized for the former location of Green Dot Stables, and according to Dustin “Dustie” Morrell, a co-owner and partner in the venture, it will be a spot for everyone. …
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Rich Tupica
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9/1/22
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