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Food & Dining

Bandito’s Offers New Five-Dollar Menu

Bandito's serves up mexican food on Liberty and Fourth

On Liberty and Fourth, there is a small Mexican restaurant, largely unknown to the citizens of Community High School. Many students have not noticed this now twenty-year old restaurant as a lunch option. However, with Bandito’s new five-dollar menu for Community students, this may change More…

What’s Cooking at Taste Our Goods

The smell of ribs cooking floats out of the unassuming kitchen in Sparrow Market. During lunch, CHS students and community members alike are enticed by the Taste Our Goods Friday special.

Taste Our Goods at Sparrow Market opened up last summer when Nora Feldhusen and Suzanne Lipton graduated from the University of Michigan, and Bob Sparrow, the owner of Sparrow Market, offered them the opportunity to open up a lunch counter in his store.

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Hip coffee shop is “What’s missing in Ann Arbor”

White walls. A lime green ceiling. Simplistic wooden chairs. Upbeat, Latin-infused music.

From the frozen yogurt bar to the video projection above the counter, everything about Lab, Ann Arbor’s newest coffee house, emits coolness.

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Sparrows Market

Market in Kerrytown

Good for very cheap food with many varieties.

Price Range: $.12 cents-$200.00

Sparrows offer very healthy food at a reasonable.  They have a large variety in foods, such as produce, meats, cheeses, and drinks.

“The meats are high quality and delicious,”- Casey (worker at Sparrows)

“ Their donuts are the best I’ve ever had,” – Paul (CHS student)

A Locally Owned Tea House Provides High Quality Tea

Lisa McDonald, the owner of the Tea Haus.

Tea houses are often seen as coffee shops, where one can buy an assortment of pastries, coffees, and often a few types of tea. On the contrary, tea houses are shops with a lighter menu. Particularly popular in Germany and the United Kingdom, they serve light meals with a wide variety of high quality teas, along with regular coffee drinks. Like coffee shops, they have become a place where students go to study and where friends go to pass the time. Tea often has a higher quality at tea houses, and the atmosphere is more relaxed, providing a less main-stream hangout than your local Starbucks.

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Julia Child’s Chocolate Souffle

This souffle is delicious and a delight to make.

Ingredients

7 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
1/3 cup strong coffee
1/2 T butter (softened)
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 cups milk
3 T butter
4 egg yolks
1 T vanilla extract
6 egg whites
1/8 t salt
1/2 cup sugar
powdered sugar for serving

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Local Flavor

ALSO APPEARS IN The Communicator, Volume 24, Edition 4

IN OUR COMMUNITY, WE ARE OFTEN URGED TO BUY LOCAL, ESPECIALLY IN THE CURRENT ECONOMY. BUT CAN YOU BUY FOOD AT THE LOCAL MARKET FOR THE SAME PRICE AS THE CHAIN GROCERY?

“I’d love to shop at local businesses, but I just can’t afford to.” This seems to be the general belief about local grocery shopping. It’s great for the local economy and for the community, but it’s so expensive that only some families can afford it. This mindset has turned local shopping into a sort of charity – you either pay more to support a good cause, or you make cost the priority and choose the big-box store for the best prices. But how accurate is this perception? Are local businesses really more expensive? If so, how much more? More…

A New Generation of Cuisine

Cuisine n. – A characteristic manner or style of preparing food

Every cuisine found throughout the world has developed over centuries, or even a millennia. Flavor combinations and recipes have been passed down from generation to generation, being tweaked along the way. The best recipes are those that don’t veer far from precedent. Cultures and cuisines have had time to meld together into different cuisine fusions over the course of many centuries.

“Everything is fusion; cultures and cuisines grow up next to each other.” says Duc Tang, chef and owner of Pacific Rim By Kana, a restaurant located in downtown Ann Arbor that serves Pan-Asian Cuisine. Tang considers himself a contemporary Pan-Asian chef. His style of cooking involves taking classic Pan-Asian dishes and reinterpreting them. In some cases, the knowledge of complimentary flavors can make the task of creating a new recipe similar to that of an equation.

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Ben and Jerry’s introduces “Milk and Cookies”

On Sunday, February 14, Ben and Jerry’s of Ann Arbor added a new flavor to it’s dip case: Milk and Cookies. This creation of vanilla ice cream with a chocolate cookie swirl, chocolately chip, and chocolate chip cookies could easily be called a new twist on old favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.

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Cupcake Station

Address 116 E Liberty St, 48104
Phone (734) 222-1801
Hours M-Th 10am-8pm F-Sa 10am-10pm Su 12-6pm
Price Range $ (0-10)
Parking Street
Wheelchair Accessible No
Meals Desert, Beverages
Indoor/Outdoor Seating Indoor
Accepts Credit Card Yes
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