Culinary Tour of Detroit, June 26-28

The American Table Culinary Tours, a non-profit dedicated to celebrating our nation's diverse vernacular foodways, is Midwest-bound. "Laboring Over the Stove: A Working Defintion of Detroit Cuisine" (June 26-28) is a three-day in-depth exploration of our region's last edible frontier: The Motor City.

The tour features countless one-of-a-kind experiences, including a progressive lunch of ethnic favorites that will wind through the city's landmark houses of worship, small group pastry-making lessons in Detroit's top ethnic bakeries and a five-course dinner at Zingerman's Roadhouse celebrating Detroit chronicler Harriet Arnow.

But, even better, the tour's just been deeply discounted. In light of the sorry state of the economy, we've recently slashed the price to $475 for the entire experience, including seven meals, drinks, snacks, activities and on-site transportation in a super-comfy charter bus. While this tour is sure to be a non-non-non-profit venture for us, we're committed to showcasing the culinary wonders of this oft-ignored city (which happens to be our hometown.) We'd be honored to have some folks from Chicagoland make the trip north to parse coney dogs and featherbowl with us.

To register or learn more, check out http://www.tabletours.org. Or just shoot me an e-mail at hanna@tabletours.org. I'd love to hear from you.

Yours in good eats,

Hanna

Hanna Raskin
Director
The American Table Culinary Tours
P.O. Box 1466
Asheville, NC 28802
(828)242-3350
http://www.tabletours.org

I'm not a Detroit native, but lived there from 1968-1979, beginning with a "city semester" program at U of M where I settled into an Appalachian neighborhood near Tiger Stadium. Your tour hits so many buttons for me. It looks just fantastic. Thank you for posting.