While waiting for the food truck debate to go before the Grand Rapids City Commission on June 12, I have spent some time dreaming about possible new food trucks.
In what has become a wildly-popular winter/spring tradition, West Michigan’s Salt of the Earth announces its third-annual monthly Michigan Wine & Beer Dinner Series at its downtown Fennville rustic American eatery, starting on January 11 and running through June 20.
If you’ve watched Food, Inc. or read The Omnivore’s Dilemma, or even if you’ve been in the foodie crowd long enough, you’ve probably heard of Joel Salatin, the alternative farmer from Virginia. In January, you can hear him in person.
When a certain restaurant chain opened in Grand Rapids, I had a hard time getting excited. Because it’s a chain. When others pointed this out, many responded, “so what if it’s a chain? Local workers still get jobs there, right? What difference does it make?”
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