Serious Eats and Zingerman's: Teaming Up for Deliciousness
Serious Eats is teaming up with Zingerman's! Shop today and save 10% on your order by using source code EATERS.*
What is Zingerman's? It's a family of food businesses based in Ann Arbor, Michigan that includes a deli, restaurant, bakehouse, creamery, and a mail-order/online catalog. I have known the good folks at Zingerman's for almost ten years now. Every member of the Zingerman's family is a source for seriously delicious food. Ever since Serious Eats launched we have wanted to find the right food catalog partner.
Why? So that when we discover something seriously delicious other serious eaters could get their hands on it no matter where they live.
I have eaten with Zingerman's co-founders Ari Weinzweig and Paul Saginaw in
Ann Arbor, New York, Memphis, and Oxford, Mississippi, among other places. Ari
and Zingerman's catalog honcho Mo Frechette, who spend a good chunk of the year searching out new food artisans and their products, are incredibly passionate, discerning, and inclusive food explorers. I trust their taste and judgment in food and people. The Zingerman's folks in general are stand-up people who have dedicated their lives to helping all of us find the good stuff to eat, drink, and cook with. In short they are like us, serious eaters of the first order.
Beginning right now we'll be featuring our favorite edibles sold by Zingerman's. One thing serious eaters should know is that before we feature anything from Zingerman's on Serious Eats, we pay for and taste it to make sure the food lives up to our standards and yours.
When you place an order with Zingerman's via Serious Eats, we'll earn a small commission. You will never pay more for the privilege of ordering Zingerman's goods via Serious Eats, and in some cases you will pay less. If for some reason any serious eater is unhappy with their Zingerman's order, Zingerman's will do whatever it takes to make it right. We are confident this arrangement will allow the Serious Eats community to access even more seriously delicious food on a moment's (or maybe a day's) notice.
Enough talk, let's eat! Here's some of our favorite Zingerman's stuff. Shop today and save 10% on your order by using source code EATERS*:
Semi-Dried Cherry Tomatoes from Sicily I couldn't believe how much intense, sweet tomatoey taste was packed into this jar of sun-dried, roasted cherry tomatoes. These little suckers will elevate any sandwich or salad.
Zingerman's Creamery Cream Cheese There's all the other cream cheese you can buy, and then there's Zingerman's housemade cream cheese, which actually tastes like cream. This is cream cheese with character and soul.
Chocolate Cherry Bread Spread some of your favorite unsweetened peanut butter on Zingerman's chocolate cherry bread and be prepared to swoon with delight. Or, make the world's best French toast with it.
* The fine print: Offer good through September 30, 2008. 10% discount applies to products only, and does not include shipping. Discount is not valid toward the purchase of gift certificates.
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9 Comments:
Ed, for those of us living close enough to A2 (I'm only 50 miles from there), maybe we could order through SE but then pick it up? Anyway, just a suggestion there.
LunaPierCook at 5:02PM on 09/15/08
I regularly send my son Zingerman care packages. He's a poor, starving student in Boston and he loves their olive oil, basalmic vinegar, breads and parmesan. They do an excellent job with the orders - careful packaging, good directions for dealing with the bread after it has been frozen. I really recommend them - their products are incredible and their service outstanding.
Bunnee at 10:27PM on 09/15/08
Best food. Even better customer service.
Indigo608 at 10:32PM on 09/15/08
@Bunnee: Your son wouldn't be starving if you bought ramen rather than $50/liter olive oil, $50 bottles of 30yo balsamic and $8 loaves sourdough chocolate cherry bread. ;)
This reminds me, I should probably walk back down there and grab a macchiato. The buzz from the first one is wearing off.
paanta at 12:41PM on 09/16/08
Try working across the street from Zingerman's... It puts a whole different spin on the "stopping off for bread and milk" on the way home!
Ah, Serious Eats - you could not have chosen more dedicated, astute business people to partner with. It is positively a glorious experience every time you walk through the door of one of their establishments. Guaranteed, they will make the mail order experience every bit as special for those gifting and receiving.
Friends and business associates from all over the country who stop in the deli while in A2 (Ann Arborite vernacular) state that it is unsurpassed even by NYC deli standards. Everyone loads up on the esoteric food products when they are here and I wouldn't take bets on how much of it doesn't make it to the airport!
My advice - get yourself a catalog and lose control!
@paanta - LOL, I just picked up my mulberry balsamic that we ordered during their balsamic "tasting" class, to the tune of $150! Oy vay!!! But in my defense, they do give a 20% disc. for anything purchased or ordered the night of the event. I haven't completely lost my whole mind yet! Unless one of us spills it, it should last many, many years to come...
frederika at 11:41AM on 09/17/08
Mmm I love Zingerman's. I'm actually going to Ann Arbor in a couple weeks and I cannot wait to go to Zingerman's in person!! :)
Hillary
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Chew on That at 2:30PM on 09/17/08
Ahhh yes, I am a college student...not a starving one, just one who wants some great food!
Any recommendations for me?? :)
Especially in the cheese department! Every one sounds incredible...
mesohuangry at 4:04PM on 09/17/08
Speaking of starving college students, I worked at Zingerman's throughout college. My roommates and I did not starve. We also didn't have to resort to ramen when I came home from work.
I miss Zingerman's, both because I live out of state and because I can't afford it. Sad.
I recommend the Hummingbird Cake.
blackolive at 1:56PM on 09/19/08
Outstanding!
passion4eating at 2:52PM on 09/19/08