[Sca-cooks] Long Pepper Bacon

[Johnna Holloway]

Zingermans is celebrating their 25th anniversary this week.
Their breads are featured in the latest House and Garden.
They are the quintessential Ann Arbor institution. The mail
order alone is a 30 million dollar business now. They have moved into local
wedding and also event planning.  I think I mentioned
that they were selling the long pepper and grains of paradise back in May
of 2005. The co-owner was one of the keynote speakers at the
Symposium on American Culinary History.
http://www.clements.umich.edu/culinary/index.html
I've looked the producer of their long pepper up before. It turns out 
the company also has a website--
http://www.bigtreebali.com/pepper.html

Johnnae

Susan Fox wrote:
> Everything old is new again...
>
> A filker friend was rhapsodizing about his favorite deli in Ann Arbor so 
> I had to look at the website.  On the front page today was an item about 
> how "Long pepper was a favored spice during the Roman empire and 
> American colonial cooking, where it probably found its way next to 
> bacon, too, so it makes sense."  They ship, maybe I'll get some.
>
> http://www.zingermans.com/Index.pasp
>
> [Oh, and the song is here:  
> http://filkertom-itom.blogspot.com/2007/03/031-contessa.html]
>
> Selene
>