Category Archives: Catering

Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Cadeau Creations gift basket

December 9, 2011 – 9:54 am

Cadeau Creations was born and bred in the wild Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In addition to complete catering services, they have created specially-designed baskets of gourmet goodness from the people, places and soil of the U.P. using the freshest local ingredients and select organic and Fair Trade ingredients. They make a great gift for homesick [...]

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5×5 Night in Grand Rapids

April 25, 2011 – 8:58 am

5 ideas, 5 minutes each, 5 slides each, 5 judges, 5,000 dollars 5×5 Night is a monthly event in Grand Rapids that allows 5 people to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges who decide how to award $5,000 on the last Tuesday night of every month. The third 5×5 happens tomorrow night at [...]

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Michigan Culinary Tourism

February 21, 2011 – 9:44 am

Mack-in-touch Apples by ( Jennifer ) A month ago, Absolute Michigan participated in the the Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations conference (read our live blog) where the Michigan Culinary Tourism initiative was launched. For the video below, we spoke with Melody Johnson of the International Culinary Tourism Association, keynote speaker Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman’s, Linda Jones [...]

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Live at the Michigan Culinary Tourism Conference

January 10, 2011 – 8:26 am

Click here for a video from the conference! All day today the Absolute Michigan team is at Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations, Michigan’s first conference on Culinary Tourism. The conference was a hot ticket, and nearly 200 tourism industry stakeholders are getting ready to learn about Michigan’s new initiative to increase tourism. You can learn all [...]

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Michigan Culinary Tourism taking off!

December 20, 2010 – 12:52 pm

Great Lakes Echo is a project of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University. The site uses Creative Commons reporting to to help the news community cover the environment of the Great Lakes watershed. Absolute Michigan supports the mission of Great Lakes Echo and will feature articles they produce. This article by [...]

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Michigan Restaurants: Saffron in Kalamazoo

February 28, 2008 – 7:12 pm

Saffron in Kalamazoo features authentic Northwest frontier Indian Cuisine with items including Samosas, Tandoori-Sensational Chicken, Shrimp Karahi Masala, Lamb Jhalfrazi and a blistering Vegetable Vindaloo. Sides like clay-oven baked Tandoori Breads and Ralta complete your meal and they’ll prepare your meal to suit your palate: mild, medium or hot. They do catering and have a [...]

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February is Dining Month on Absolute Michigan

February 1, 2008 – 9:16 am

Crab Rangoon by Shawn Botruff (chef who made this at the Bluebird) For the month of February, we’ll be focusing on dining in Michigan. Starting Monday, we’ll be offering daily profiles of restaurants. We’ll begin with diners and dives, check out some casual and family restaurants, dress up for fine dining and sample some of [...]

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Culinary delights at the Traverse Epicurean Classic

August 28, 2007 – 8:02 am

I took this photo of Perry Harmon (who now makes a very tasty and tender biscotti for a living) at the Traverse Epicurean Classic last year (slideshow). The Epicurean Classic is an amazing annual celebration of food, wine, brewing and cooking that gets better every year. It was founded to benefit the Great Lakes Culinary [...]

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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 [...]

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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did! The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there. Share this:

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