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You really can do business differently!

lessons on leadership, life, artisan food, and anarchism

(with some minor musings on music to boot)

From Ari Weinzweig, Co-founding Partner, Zingerman’s Community of Businesses

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Intuiting the Import of Intuition in Insightful Leadership

What would you do if your intuition gave a strong indication that you ought to write an article about the import of intuition?  Me, I could pretty quickly come up with a couple hundred reasons to take a pass—in my case, I’m certainly not a scientist who studies the subject for a living, nor would … Read More

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Fuet from the Folks at Lowry Hill Provisions at the Deli

If you stop by almost any specialty food shop in the Spanish region of Catalunya—even on “the coast of Barcelona,” as Bob Dylan sings in “Boots of Spanish Leather”—fuet is the cured sausage you’re most likely to find. A long, thin salami (fuet translates to “whip” in Catalan), it’s most commonly eaten in medium-thick slices along … Read More

Zingerman’s Pimento Cheese

A little over a decade ago, I took a deep dive into what was then a new item in the ZCoB ecosystem. I had a feeling that it could turn into a big seller, but absolutely no data whatsoever to back up my intuition. At the time we started making the recipe, hardly anyone in … Read More

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Beautifully Buttery Palmiers from the Bakehouse

The Bakehouse’s beautiful and delicious Palmier is another on the ever-longer list of pastries that have been enhanced by the recent addition of Vermont Creamery Cultured Butter. The Lemon Poppyseed Coffee Cake I wrote about last week; the Bakehouse’s full array of coffee cakes, scones, and croissants; the Roadhouse’s buttermilk biscuits, butterscotch pudding, and bread … Read More

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Ari Weinzweig

Ari Weinzweig, Co-founding Partner, Zingerman’s Community of Businesses

Ari’s Top 5 is the weekly e-newsletter authored by Ari Weinzweig, co-founding partner of Zingerman’s, the iconic Ann Arbor, Michigan, institution. Each issue features an in-depth personal essay by Ari on a vital topic in business, leadership, or philosophy, plus a roundup of four fantastic foods that Ari’s excited to share from across the Zingerman’s Community of Businesses. Subscribe below to receive some delicious food for thought in your inbox every Wednesday! 

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