Category: Kzoo Kitchens
‘My best teacher’
Nabe Shin, a staple at the Farmer’s Market and a forager for decades, on the life lessons and other sustenance found in a walk in the woods.
Chef’s notebook: a stroll for street food
Our food writer and food historian’s trip to find ancient baklava recipes in southern Turkey gets canceled due to an earthquake. So, Chef Channon Mondoux makes the best of her time “stuck” in Istanbul.
Chef’s notebook: eating the myth of a secret baklava ingredient
NowKalamazoo’s Channon Mondoux is also a chef and food historian. This dispatch is from Istanbul, where she was recently continuing her research into the origins of baklava.
Nigerian fusion food comes to Kalamazoo
Isa Clark spent many hours in the kitchen growing up in the Niger Delta region, helping feed an extended family and a steady stream of visitors. Now it’s the Kalamazoo community’s time to feast.
‘Comfort foods so the average guy off the street could enjoy’
Kalamazoo County’s first all-vegan, gluten-free, peanut-free restaurant opens in Portage.
Ice cream customers flock to the chicken
Rollup Ice Cream’s unique treats drew crowds in Kalamazoo and Portage stores, but the chicken sandwich is giving wings to the local parlor’s expansion to Missouri.
Vegan cuisine no longer just a trend
Menu options are expanding, a new all-vegan restaurant is soon to open, and a day-long festival at the Kalamazoo Farmers Market are expanding the horizons for area foodies.
Bronco footballer returns to campus as BBQ stand-out
With inspired recipes and a rotating menu of meats and sides, the new House of Soul and Seafood by Chef Jarrell McKinney gets a crowd even before the doors formally open.
‘This is my thing’
A Portage chef trained in both nutrition and culinary arts packs flavor for all sorts of dietary needs into a unique meal prep business.
‘Kalamazoo could handle it’
Cravings Deli, the aptly-named eatery inside pan-Asian specialty grocer Pacific Rim, still leans into its unique dishes made by mom to expand the community’s food culture.

‘My best teacher’
Nabe Shin, a staple at the Farmer’s Market and a forager for decades, on the life lessons and other sustenance found in a walk in the woods.

Chef’s notebook: a stroll for street food
Our food writer and food historian’s trip to find ancient baklava recipes in southern Turkey gets canceled due to an earthquake. So, Chef Channon Mondoux makes the best of her time “stuck” in Istanbul.

Chef’s notebook: eating the myth of a secret baklava ingredient
NowKalamazoo’s Channon Mondoux is also a chef and food historian. This dispatch is from Istanbul, where she was recently continuing her research into the origins of baklava.

Nigerian fusion food comes to Kalamazoo
Isa Clark spent many hours in the kitchen growing up in the Niger Delta region, helping feed an extended family and a steady stream of visitors. Now it’s the Kalamazoo community’s time to feast.

‘Comfort foods so the average guy off the street could enjoy’
Kalamazoo County’s first all-vegan, gluten-free, peanut-free restaurant opens in Portage.

Ice cream customers flock to the chicken
Rollup Ice Cream’s unique treats drew crowds in Kalamazoo and Portage stores, but the chicken sandwich is giving wings to the local parlor’s expansion to Missouri.

Vegan cuisine no longer just a trend
Menu options are expanding, a new all-vegan restaurant is soon to open, and a day-long festival at the Kalamazoo Farmers Market are expanding the horizons for area foodies.

Bronco footballer returns to campus as BBQ stand-out
With inspired recipes and a rotating menu of meats and sides, the new House of Soul and Seafood by Chef Jarrell McKinney gets a crowd even before the doors formally open.

‘This is my thing’
A Portage chef trained in both nutrition and culinary arts packs flavor for all sorts of dietary needs into a unique meal prep business.

‘Kalamazoo could handle it’
Cravings Deli, the aptly-named eatery inside pan-Asian specialty grocer Pacific Rim, still leans into its unique dishes made by mom to expand the community’s food culture.