Category Archives: Casual & Family Restaurants

Michigan New Years Eve Happenings

December 17, 2007 – 9:31 am

We have assembled a list of some of the best New Year's Eve events from across the state. Did we get them all? Not likely!! Be sure to add the ones we missed to the comments and safely enjoy ringing in 2008!

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Weird Michigan: Antlers Taxidermy Restaurant, Sault Ste. Marie

November 28, 2007 – 9:12 am

The latest of our Absolute Michigan "Weird Wednesdays" (held the last Wednesday of every month) is an excerpt from the forthcoming Strange Michigan: More Wolverine State Weirdness by Linda S. Godfrey and Lisa Shiel. Linda is the author of Weird Michigan and also took the photo, which you can see larger if you click it!

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Michigan Word of the Week: Turkey

November 19, 2007 – 11:29 am

turkeys by The Amazing Mr. Keebler
The fall turkey hunting season ended yesterday (November 18th). The spring season is from April 23 to March 31 (so that means you'll have to continue the hunt for your holiday feast below). The Michigan DNR's wild turkey page has more info about Michigan's turkeys and there's more from Michigan [...]

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Fall Color Tours: Mackinaw City - Charlevoix - Petoskey

October 9, 2007 – 9:39 am

outside east jordan, mi. by redmudball
The photo to the right is of the St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church of East Jordan (link) and is part of Casey's Fall in East Jordan set.
While the color is still in full bloom in the Upper Peninsula, we better head south across the Mighty Mac and spend some [...]

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The Frankenmuth Oktoberfest: sanctioned by the Parliament and the City of Munich

August 30, 2007 – 8:04 am

oktoberfest by leigh wolf
Every September, Frankenmuth celebrates their German culinary and musical heritage with the Frankenmuth Oktoberfest.
In 1990, Frankenmuth, "Michigan's Little Bavaria," celebrated its first Oktoberfest. The Frankenmuth Oktoberfest celebrates German culture, heritage and love. Our goal is to incorporate as many of the sights, sounds, taste and traditions of the original Munich [...]

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Ready to Pick: Michigan Blueberries

August 3, 2007 – 7:57 am

farmers market by chadvw
Blueberries are the latest Ready to Pick feature from Taste the Local Difference. They talk about the importance of blueberries to the Native Americans and say:
The National Institute of Health suggests that there is evidence that the antioxidants in blueberries can prevent some of the problems associated with aging, and can actually [...]

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Michigan Eats: Maple Corn Dogs from Fork in the Road

July 30, 2007 – 9:20 am

Eric Villegas of the popular Michigan cooking show Fork in the Road gives you his spin on fair food with this great recipe for maple corn dogs and also "octopus corn dogs" (sure to be a hit at both kids birthday and Detroit Red Wing watching parties!
Show #417 also includes a recipe for soft pretzels!

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Numbers show food & wine travel a winner for Michigan

April 23, 2007 – 9:02 am

Greeny Goodness by Sarah Steffens
Sunday's Saginaw News had a brief feature on culinary tourism that says a recent survey from the Travel Industry Association found Michigan ranked in the top 15 states for food and in the top 12 for wine-related travel. The survey found that 27 million travelers (17%) include culinary adventures in their [...]

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Blogs We Dig: Kitchen Chick

April 17, 2007 – 9:23 am

Kitchen Chick will fill you in on just about anything you need to know about cooking: Chinese pickled vegetables, a Polish grocery store in Ann Arbor, even the explosion in Mexican and Central American restaurants in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area. The blog also features some very, very good recipes with photos guaranteed to make you [...]

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Culinary tour of Grand Traverse County's Old Mission

April 13, 2007 – 8:01 am

Check out Absolute Michigan keyword "Old Mission" for more web sites and articles about Old Mission.

A Vintage Year? by oddzen
Lake Magazine has a nice feature by Emily Bingham on Northern Michigan's Old Mission Peninsula that focuses on the culinary attractions of this orchard and vineyard filled peninsula that divides the East and West Grand Traverse [...]

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