Outpost 505

You heard that right! We’re pulling up shop, consolidating our internet real estate, and telling tales of food, travel, beer, cats, and other adventures over at TeamBeers.net. Get it? Because our last name is Beers and we’re a team? Team Beers? You wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to find a fun domain name that [...]

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I follow the Ann Arbor Farmers Market on Twitter, and when I saw that cherries were available at the Wednesday morning market, I made a significant detour on my way to work, arriving at the office with smoked fish and two kinds of cherries – tart and sweet – and no plan for what to [...]

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The fourth in a series of posts about the exceptional food I ate in 2.5 days in New York. Brunch in the garden at Le Gamin on my second morning in New York: a perfectly poached egg atop a wedge of chevre-potato cake, surrounded by ratatouille. Café au lait served in a bowl. Sunshine and [...]

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The third in a series of posts about the exceptional food I ate in 2.5 days in New York. A few weeks before my trip, I posted a request for restaurant recommendations on Twitter and Facebook. I ate well on previous trips to New York, but have gotten significantly more into food since my last [...]

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The second in a series of posts about the exceptional food I ate in 2.5 days in New York. My trip to New York was a dream. Actually getting to New York, however, was a giant pain in the ass. Someone explain to me exactly how air travel has gotten LESS convenient and MORE miserable [...]

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The first in a series of posts about the exceptional food I ate in 2.5 days in New York. We’re Mario Batali fans around here, so Eataly was at the top of my To Do list upon arriving in New York Friday night.  Opened in 2010 in partnership with Lidia Bastianich and others, Eataly is [...]

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I bookmarked this recipe ages ago, but just got around to making it this week. I’m not sure what made it float to the surface this week – or why in the world I waited so long. Because seriously? These were amazing. Photo by mermaid99 They’re totally vegan – unless you do as we did, [...]

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I haven’t been posting much lately. Frankly, I haven’t been cooking much lately, either. Our weekends have been busy with races and house guests and travel to celebrate family and friends, and the next two weeks promise more of the same.  The weather here also hasn’t felt particularly summery. OK, that’s not true – last [...]

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On nights like this, it’s impossible to remember the brutal winter.  That’s how Ann Arbor gets you: beautiful weather, beautiful people, beautiful food. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.

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We spent last weekend in Rockford, celebrating a very special boy’s very special first birthday. Jenn and Bill really outdid themselves with the treats, and I’ll be honest when I say that I was tempted to dig in with the same sort of abandon demonstrated by the birthday boy. It got messier from here, but [...]

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