Traverse City’s Best Restaurants Host Nation’s Best Chefs

This year’s Epicurean Classic, September 11, 12, and 13, will include four enticing receptions and ten, count ‘em, TEN Great Chef Dinners at Traverse City’s best restaurants.
 
Why? Because we’re bringing in more chefs this year, from faraway places like Stockholm, Trinidad, and all over the United States and with an ever - growing number of stellar restaurants in Traverse City, it made sense [...]

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Of Michigan Food and Drink

We arrive at the close of 2007 with conflicted though generally positive feelings about the state of Michigan’s dining scene, her best chefs and the restaurants they run. To be sure, woe is still the word in Metro Detroit. Money’s tight and top tier restaurants always struggle in weak economies. Mike Sweeney, a wine wholesaler for Estate Wine & [...]

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Going Further with Wine

Wine lovers become wine lovers for any number of reasons but what’s the next step? In other words, how do you direct some of that wine-loving passion into informal wine study, on par with making a wine a hobby? (Dear reader, concentrating on the many alluring shades and sweetly beguiling flavors of white Zinfandel is [...]

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