Category Archives: Ethnic Restaurants

Grand Rapids Wine, Beer & Food Festival ~ Nov 17-19, 2011

November 3, 2011 – 3:44 pm

The 2011 Grand Rapids Wine, Beer & Food Festival takes place Thursday, November 17th through Saturday, November 19th at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids. It draws over 10,000 over three days, making it the largest food and wine festival in Michigan and one of the premier events of its kind in the Midwest. Classes, tastings from [...]

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Traverse City Wine & Art Festival ~ August 20th

August 2, 2011 – 7:47 am

Traverse City Wine & Art Festival, 2010 by KatSwinehart The 2011 Traverse City Wine & Art Festival takes place Saturday, August 20th from 3-10 PM on the beautiful front lawn at The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, rain or shine. It’s Michigan’s premier celebration of wine, art, food and music, offering an incredible opportunity to taste wines [...]

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Paella In The Park ~ August 5

July 19, 2011 – 8:47 am

Absolute Michigan’s Festival Summer “Frenzy Week” continues with our latest giveaway… The Wineries of Old Mission Peninsula (OMP) and Porterhouse Productions present the second annual Paella In The Park, a summer music & culinary event in the heart of downtown Traverse City. Traverse City’s bayside Clinch Park grounds will transform into a swingin’ festival! This [...]

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Taste of Kalamazoo Festival ~ July 21-23

July 10, 2011 – 9:24 pm

Every year, on the fourth weekend of July, thousands of hungry festival-goers flock to downtown Kalamazoo to enjoy the endless variety of foods prepared by Kalamazoo’s most popular eateries at the Taste of Kalamazoo Festival. More than 30 local restaurants and chefs will offer mouth-watering ethnic items, family favorites, exotic dishes, and local specialties. Enjoy [...]

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Kalamazoo Island Fest ~ June 16-18

June 6, 2011 – 10:23 am

Read on to learn how you can win a pair of tickets to Island Fest! The annual Kalamazoo Island Festival is an celebration of Jamaican and Caribbean music, culture and food that takes place Thursday June 16th through Saturday the 18th. The annual festival is in its 16th year and benefits the community activities and programs [...]

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Fat Tuesday is Paczki Day in Michigan

March 8, 2011 – 9:14 am

A couple of years ago, comedian and commentator Mo Rocca traveled to Hamtramck for CBS Sunday Morning to get this report on Pazcki Day, but as we know, sugary treats never go out of style! Hamtramck’s Pazcki Day page gives you all kinds of lore and legend on these traditional Polish doughnuts which are also [...]

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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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Oktoberfest, Lansing – October 1 & 2, 2010

September 30, 2010 – 2:57 am

When the summer air begins to cool and the leaves begin to fall, it can only mean one thing – Oktoberfest is on its way! On Friday & Saturday, October 1 & 2, the heart of Old Town, Lansing will be filled with the sights, scents, sounds and suds of Old World Germany! Oktoberfest is [...]

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