American Table Culinary Tours

Tour Highlights

Tour highlights include countless one-of-a-kind experiences unavailable to the everyday eater, such as:

A progressive lunch of tamales, pierogies, baklava and other homemade ethnic favorites specially prepared for our group by congregants at Polish, Greek, Mexican, Middle-Eastern, and African-American landmark houses of worship
A five-course dinner at Zingerman's Roadhouse honoring award-winning Ann Arbor author and Detroit chronicler Harriette Arnow, featuring a menu created by Ari Weinzweig and prepared by James Beard-nominated chef Alex Young
Talks on Detroit and its foodways by homegrown experts, including Bill McGraw of the Detroit Free Press and UAW vice-president Jimmy Settles
Intimate group baking lessons with celebrated makers of Hungarian kifli, Mexican pastries, Middle-Eastern sweets, and the best sweet potato pie in the north

Personal introductions to Eastern Market vendors on a special tour arranged by Lois Johnson and Margaret Thomas, authors of Detroit's Eastern Market
A behind-the-scenes tour -- and a coney dog, Vernors float and Sanders sundae festival -- at the T-Plex, where the Model T was invented and women first worked the assembly line
Pizza dough tossing pointers from a Buddy's Pizza veteran
A moveable feast of Detroit flavors with a driving tour of Detroit in privately-owned antique cars, custom-arranged with a Model T club
A fully-catered picnic feast on Belle Isle, showcasing centuries of Detroit's favorite foods
An evening of Belgian beer, mussels and feather bowling lessons from top competitors at the legendary Cadieux Café
A private visit to Germack Pistachio Co. with Tigers' baseball superstar, and Detroit lover, Curtis Granderson
Custom events hosted by special arrangement at the new DIA, Dossin Museum, and Russell Industrial Center, the chassis factory reborn as an artists' enclave
A tribute to Detroit's bygone restaurants by renowned visual artist Lowell Boileau, creator of detroityes.com

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