[Photo: Zingerman's Delicatessen, Michael Takasaki]
I’ve dreamed of visiting Ann Arbor, Michigan for years. Because that’s where Zingerman’s Delicatessen is. As soon as I read co-founder Ari Weinzweig’s book Zingerman’s Guide to Good Eating, I knew I had to go.
Last week, on the way back from Indiana with Chris, I finally made it. There was a [...]

Let me be brief: I’m a ham guy. That’s not to say that I raise my own hogs and smoke my own hams. Or go out of my way to eat ham whenever possible. Or that I’m able to hold forth on every ham-related topic that comes up. Well, that’s probably the closest to being true, but only because ham is rarely a topic of conversation. No, I consider myself a ham guy because I recently realized the role ham has played as a sort of connecting thread throughout my adult life. (Also, I really do like ham quite a bit.)