Quoted: Glemie Dell Beasley is the real deal, a 69-year-old blues musician who learned to sing while picking cotton on an Arkansas plantation, and whose pastime is selling freshly killed raccoons from his house.

Oh dear. I still love it there.

Quoted: Chuck E. Cheese's bills itself as a place "where a kid can be a kid." But to law-enforcement officials across the country, it has a more particular distinction: the scene of a surprising amount of disorderly conduct and battery among grown-ups.

Yum. We've got a lot of burgers to try. This is the only one I've had.

Quoted: The one-third-pound ground round burger is a signature of this clubby, upscale bar in the Pointes. They come thick and very juicy, cooked just as you ordered and great plain or loaded up with ingredients. They're "the best of the best," reader Christina Olofsson wrote from Troy.

I'm looking forward to trying this place.

Quoted: The "pomfrites" are essential eating, along with another core element of Belgian cuisine — mussels.

Quoted: Located near the border between the Grosse Pointes and Detroit — that unintended margin as distinct and provocative as any part of the metro region — Cadieux Café is remarkable for reasons beyond the food and beer. They boast the only feather bowling lanes in the country. Anyone that has ever played a game of bocce ought to recognize the simple rules. It seems fitting that the decor is '80s Elks lodge with laminated tables and bulky metal chairs. It's a bit dim and melancholy when empty but not uncomfortable.

Sad news. Liz and I were dining with spry 80-90 year old Mediterraneans last night and hoping that if we ate like them for life we could pull it off too.

Quoted: The fact is that the Mediterranean diet, which has been associated with longer life spans and lower rates of heart disease and cancer, is in retreat in its home region. Today it is more likely to be found in the upscale restaurants of London and New York than among the young generation in places like Greece, where two-thirds of children are now overweight and the health effects are mounting, health officials say.

so we just confirmed our cake order today...i don't know what else to say about this dot. it's quite something.

Quoted: Erm.

Comprehensive guide to the best of Detroit food. Going to have to start a checklist (hopefully we can begin the tour in New Center - best pre-theater splurge and best collard greens).

Quoted: All things culinary, from fine dining to superb take-out.

A very interesting prison litigation story that doesn't involve Johnathan Lee Riches or GITMO.

Quoted: Prisoners sue over Nutraloaf with some regularity, usually arguing either that their due process rights have been violated (because they are served the punitive loaves without a hearing) or that the dish is so disgusting as to make it cruel and unusual and thus a violation of the Eighth Amendment.