Ethnic Dining Archive

A FOOD LOVER’S JOURNEY / ZINGERMAN’S DELICATESSEN, ANN ARBOR, MICHGAN – It asks the question: when is a deli a deli?

By Larry Levine - (Number 3 in a series of articles - A FOOD LOVER’S JOURNEY.) As a place to find excellent Jewish rye bread, Zingerman’s sets a high standard. As a place to select from an impressive assortment of cheeses and a variety of specialty hams, Zingerman’s Delicatessen is worth a visit. But is Zingerman’s a true [...]
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BOMBAY BAR AND GRILL – Restaurant of the Week

By Larry Sheingold – For anyone doubting a review’s influence on local dining choices – and sometimes the success or failure of a restaurant – I offer you Sacramento’s Bombay Bar and Grill, purveyor of Indian cuisine. My wife and I go there often. We like the food, the sauces, the garlic basil naan. We [...]
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FOOD BOOK REVIEW – “Save the Deli”

By Larry Levine - “Save the Deli” by David Sax tracks the history of Ashkenazi Jews – the plight they faced as they were chased around the globe, scapegoated, killed and survived for hundreds of years. And it is the story of the food they took with them and the delis they established to become [...]
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AND THE WINNERS ARE – Who is turning out great bagels?

By Larry Levine – So, who is turning out the best bagels of our time? It’s a tough one to test in a blind tasting because you want all the bagels to be same day fresh – just hours out of the oven if you can. I gathered 10 friends at our home one recent [...]
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BAGELS AREN’T JEWISH ANY MORE

By Larry Levine – What’s your favorite kind of bagel? Strawberry? Sun dried tomato? Pumpernickel? Garlic? Or are you more traditional? Plain? Onion? Sesame seed? One thing has become clear: Bagels are multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-national. Bagels aren’t Jewish any more. My awareness of this reality dawned in 1995, when I was interviewing a woman [...]
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COVERUP – The Dirty Secret of Our Radioactive Food Chain

By Larry Levine - Schools of Pacific albacore tuna will start to reach the northwest shores of the United States late this summer at the end of a long journey that is beginning near the coast of Japan just about now. The migration will continue into late fall and early winter. As those fish feed [...]
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MY MOST MEMORABLE MEAL – A Dinner With Family Behind the Iron Curtain

(MY MOST MEMORABLE MEAL is an occasional feature written by the co-hosts of the restaurant recommendation web site http://www.atLarrys.com) By Janice P. Lacy - The most memorable meal I have had was in Budapest, Hungary with my family – at least, I think they were my family – who gave me a valuable lesson about [...]
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AN INTRODUCTION TO KOREAN DINING

By Larry Levine – I can make my way through the menus of most ethnic restaurants. Chinese, Japanese, Thai – no problem. French – with a little effort. Spanish or Mexican – fairly easy. Italian – I ordered in Italy in restaurants where no one spoke English. But when it comes to Korean restaurants, I’m [...]
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MEMORIES OF FAMILY DINNERS GONE BY
MEMORIES OF FAMILY DINNERS GONE BY

By Larry Levine - There’ll be no house full of people for a holiday dinner once again this year. Those times and those memories are part of a very warmly recalled past. Tonight is the first night of Rosh Hashanah, and while our family has never been particularly observant, there was a time when we [...]
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IS ANY PIZZA THE BEST PIZZA?

By Larry Dietz - One of the easiest food arguments to start is about the “best” pizza, although as food fights go, pizza is probably in a photo finish with burgers and barbecue. However, I think the notion of “best” is at best, a skewed way of looking at accomplishment. I got to thinking about [...]
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