This month, our top honor goes to the very first cheese we ever made, our Real Cream Cheese.  Made the old-fashioned way as it was in small-dairies a hundred years ago from fresh local milk, a generous dose of local cream, and the patience to let it drain slowly for at least 6 hours.

In the spirit of traditional cheesemaking, our Cream Cheese is made without the addition of vegetable gum, artificial favors or preservatives from hand-ladled curd.  But most importantly, it has a full delicious flavor and a wonderfully light, fluffy texture just perfect for your next bagel, toast, hors d’oeuvres, or cheesecake!

All month long, grab a pound of our uber-fresh Cream Cheese for only $9.99 at the Creamery or Deli!

Gelato at Your Front Door!

And speaking of frozen delights, did you know that you can enjoy a big scoop of our award-winning gelato sent anywhere in the US?  Whether you are in SoHo, Memphis, LA, or Anchorage, our friends at Zingerman’s Mail Order got your back.  You can have a box of 6, hand-packed and handmade gelati dropped off at your front door!  Eating gelato is more of an event than a dessert – thick, luscious, and creamy, and certain to make any sweets lover swoon!

You can send a pack to friends, family, or yourself from here!

We’ll send six different flavors, twelve ounces of each.

• Roadhouse Vanilla—with real vanilla from Madagascar
• Dark Chocolate—made with Scharffen Berger cocoa
• Burnt Sugar—with dark, caramelized sugar folded in
• Ginger—made with candied ginger root
• Coffee—with fresh roasted coffee from Zingerman’s Coffee Company
• Raspberry Sorbet—no dairy in this one, just sweet and delicious macerated raspberries

Creamery Events

Join us for an afternoon or evening of good food, friends, and learning!  Our tastings and classes are intimate, hands-on, and a great experience for a cheese novice and enthusiast alike.

Next Tasting:  Taste of the Southside!  Sunday May 22nd, 4-6pm

Peek inside the day to day excitement of artisan food-making on Zingerman’s “Producer’s Row” the Southside!  In this special Bakehouse/Creamery/Coffee Co. collaboration, we will showcase the best offerings of all 3 businesses and hear from the folks who make your favorite scones, mozzarella, and lattes!   Check out our Events Page for the full skinny.

Mozzarella Classes – Only 5 left!

From September through May, you can learn with the masters of mozzarella how to make your own freshly-stretched fiore di latte at home! Whether you regularly make cheeses in your kitchen or have never set your eyes on a block of curd, we will guide you through all of the steps necessary to set fresh milk, cut the curds, and stretch ‘em up into fresh balls of mozzarella and a couple truly special (and slightly decadent) regional Italian specialties.

There’s only 5 classes left for the semester before we go on break until September!

Every Saturday from 12 – 2:30 at the Creamery! $50 at the door/$45 prepaid, pre-registration required.

Culture Magazine: The Word on Cheese!

If you aren’t familiar with this publication, Culture magazine is one of the oldest dedicated to the art of cheesemaking. They have published countless articles that are worthy of being in queue on any cheese-lover’s reading list. Earlier this year, Matt Rubiner of Rubiner’s Cheesemongors & Grocers in Great Barrington, MA came out to spend some time with us and wrote a great article on his adventures with the Creamery. Filled with drool-inducing shots of cheese and some expert wordsmithing, I’d love to invite you all to read the full piece.

Culture was kind enough to post a PDF of the article for you to download if you’d like to check it out. Thanks, guys!

Who We Are

Zingerman’s Creamery is dedicated to crafting handmade cheeses and gelato using traditional methods to both honor the rich tradition of the art of cheesemaking and create the most full-flavored products we can. Using local milk from both Calder Dairy and Green Meadow Dairy, low-temperature pasteurization, and lots of time to draw out and enhance the amazing flavors of the milk, we make our products to-order every week for our wholesale customers and our Cheese Shop.

We think all of that adds up to cheese and gelato with flavor that truly stands out. But while we may think you can really taste the difference, the only taste that truly matters is your own. We’d love to share a taste of what is exciting us for the day, or something that looks intriguing to you, whatever it is, everything you buy from us is 100% guaranteed. If you aren’t happy with your purchase, just let us know and we’ll get you another slice or scoop on us, or refund your hard-earned cash!

Founding Member of the Michigan Cheese Makers Cooperative!

Game on! And you don’t need a degree in bracketology to come out on top of this tournament…

On Saturday, March 26th, Creamery Managing Partner John Loomis will be in the Cheese Shop from 12-2pm, transforming curd into the creamiest and most flavorful mozzarella you can imagine!

John will be making fresh mozzarella, burrata, and more in the shop every half-hour, beginning at noon. And we’ll have freshly-smoked mozzarella, still warm and goey, available as well. If you are a fan of smokey flavors, it’s hard to beat a ball of mozz just out of the smoker.

Rare is the chance to taste a ball of mozzarella straight out of the brine and, rarer still, is the opportunity to see the cheese you’ll be eating later in the day made right before your eyes!

Join us at the Creamery for a Mozzarella Demo at:

12 pm
12:30 pm
1:00 pm
1:30 pm
We’ll also have finished curd on hand that you can take home to give it a try yourself! And we will be running an amazing promotion on all things mozzarella during the event and for the rest of the day:

Fresh Mozzarella – $8.99/lb. (reg. $11.99)
Smoked Mozzarella – $9.99/lb. (reg. $12.99)
Burratas – $6.99/ea (reg. $9.99)
Mozzarella Curd (to make at home!): $6.99/lb. (reg. $7.99)
Mozzarella T-Shirts – only $10.99 (reg. $19.99)

Gelato at Your Front Door!

And speaking of frozen delights, did you know that you can enjoy a big scoop of our award-winning gelato sent anywhere in the US?  Whether you are in SoHo, Memphis, LA, or Anchorage, our friends at Zingerman’s Mail Order got your back.  You can have a box of 6, hand-packed and handmade gelati dropped off at your front door!  Eating gelato is more of an event than a dessert – thick, luscious, and creamy, and certain to make any sweets lover swoon!

You can send a pack to friends, family, or yourself from here!

We’ll send six different flavors, twelve ounces of each.

• Roadhouse Vanilla—with real vanilla from Madagascar
• Dark Chocolate—made with Scharffen Berger cocoa
• Burnt Sugar—with dark, caramelized sugar folded in
• Guinness—made with real Guinness stout
• Peanut Butter—with Koeze’s Cream-Nut peanut butter from Grand Rapids, MI
• Raspberry Sorbet—no dairy in this one, just sweet and delicious macerated raspberries

Do the Southside Shuffle!

Come do the Southside Shuffle with us!  All month long, if you shuffle through the 3 Zingerman’s businesses on Plaza Drive, we’ll give you a unique gift, a set of 5 notecards designed by Zingerman’s artist, Ryan Stiner.

Here’s how to do the Shuffle:

• Make a purchase at all 3 Zingerman’s Southside locations (Coffee, Creamery, and Bakehouse) totalling $20 or more
• Turn in all 3 receipts at your last stop.
• Get 5 notecards with envelopes for free!

March’s Cheese of the Month – The Manchester

One of our most popular cheeses, the Manchester takes center stage again as our March cheese of the month!  Made weekly from fresh Calder Dairy cow’s milk, the Manchester is a rich, double-cream cow’s milk cheese aged about a week before it hits the shelves.  When young, it’s unbelievably creamy and fresh with a lactic tang and slight earthiness that develops intensity with a little age.  A great cheese to slice and pair with crackers or crusty bread, top some mac and cheese, bake up in puff pastry, or served simply with some fruit or nuts.

All month long, get a round of Manchester for only $9.99 at the Cheese Shop and Deli! (regularly $12.99/ea)

A New Season of Gelato

As the calendar flips to March, our Winter gelato flavors go on vacation for the year to make room for the Spring Superstars.  In addition to the seasonals, we have a couple of flavors just for March – Irish Brown Bread and, during just the week of St. Patty’s Day, Guinness!

Spring Flavors (March-May)

• Honey – made with fresh Michigan honey
• Ginger – made with both ginger root and crystalized ginger for a sweet and spicy treat
• Burnt Sugar – Josh’s favorite, it’s the best part of a creme brulee!
• Chocolate Balsamic Strawberry – A February favorite, one of our most unique and flavorful combinations

Just for March

• Irish Brown Bread – made with caramelized soda bread from the Bakehouse, it’s toasty, nutty, buttery and sweet!
• Guinness – Available just the week of St. Patrick’s Day, this is a flavor that can’t be missed if you’ve ever been know to enjoy a pint of this fabled porter.

Next Tasting:  Get Your Goat

Sunday, March 13th * 4-6 pm * $25 in advance, $30 at the door.  Pre-registration required.

Gather ’round, friends of the humble goat, for a cheese tasting crafted just for your discerning palate!  We’ll open up the fine and various world of goat cheese as we taste samples both soft and hard, tangy and smooth.  We’ll learn all about the properties of this milk, our relationship with our farmers, and the complex story behind goats’ milk scarcity during Michigan winters.  Come celebrate our favorite rambunctious ruminant and gain new appreciation for the whole range of their delicious cheese!

Price includes a coupon for 20%-off of your entire purchase in the Cheese Shop (that night only).

Mozzarella Classes

From September through May, you can learn with the masters of mozzarella how to make your own freshly-stretched fiore di latte at home! Whether you regularly make cheeses in your kitchen or have never set your eyes on a block of curd, we will guide you through all of the steps necessary to set fresh milk, cut the curds, and stretch ‘em up into fresh balls of mozzarella and a couple truly special (and slightly decadent) regional Italian specialties.

Every Saturday from 12 – 2:30 at the Creamery! $50 at the door/$45 prepaid

Culture Magazine: The Word on Cheese!

If you aren’t familiar with this publication, Culture magazine is one of the oldest dedicated to the art of cheesemaking. They have published countless articles that are worthy of being in queue on any cheese-lover’s reading list. Earlier this year, Matt Rubiner of Rubiner’s Cheesemongors & Grocers in Great Barrington, MA came out to spend some time with us and wrote a great article on his adventures with the Creamery. Filled with drool-inducing shots of cheese and some expert wordsmithing, I’d love to invite you all to read the full piece.

Culture was kind enough to post a PDF of the article for you to download if you’d like to check it out. Thanks, guys!

Who We Are

Zingerman’s Creamery is dedicated to crafting handmade cheeses and gelato using traditional methods to both honor the rich tradition of the art of cheesemaking and create the most full-flavored products we can. Using local milk from both Calder Dairy and Green Meadow Dairy, low-temperature pasteurization, and lots of time to draw out and enhance the amazing flavors of the milk, we make our products to-order every week for our wholesale customers and our Cheese Shop.

We think all of that adds up to cheese and gelato with flavor that truly stands out. But while we may think you can really taste the difference, the only taste that truly matters is your own. We’d love to share a taste of what is exciting us for the day, or something that looks intriguing to you, whatever it is, everything you buy from us is 100% guaranteed. If you aren’t happy with your purchase, just let us know and we’ll get you another slice or scoop on us, or refund your hard-earned cash!

Proud member of the Michigan Cheese Makers Cooperative!

Cheese is one of the most dynamic foods on the planet. Deeply tied to the seasons, not only can cheeses change in flavor from month to month, they change batch to batch, week to week, and even day to day. While the modern age of farming has nearly severed the seasonal relationship people used to have with their food, artisanal cheesemaking has extremely strong ties to the changing months of the year. We have tailored a lineup of our favorites to offer at a special price in our Cheese Shop, chosen when they are at their seasonal best.

February’s Cheese of the Month – the Sharon Hollow

Made from fresh, local Calder Dairy cow’s milk, the Sharon Hollow is one of our most unique cheeses. In a cheese landscape riddled with fresh goat’s milk cheeses, you would be hard pressed to find many made of the milk from the humble cow. The production technique is quite simple and very traditional – a little rennet (enzymes) is added to the newly-arrived milk to set up the curd. Once set, the newly-coagulated curd mass is cut and ladled by hand into small round forms, alternating between a layer of curd and a layer of savory garlic and chive or garlic and pepper. Once brined and drained, the Sharon Hollow is born and ready to grace your cheese plate, thicken up your mashed potatoes, add flavor to your pasta sauces, or even paired with wine!

All month long, get 2 Sharon Hollows for only $9.99 at the Cheese Shop or the Deli! (regularly $6.99/ea)

Chocolate Gelato Month

The second month of the year for many folks in the Ann Arbor area has assumed a new name – Chocolate Month. There are few things in the food world that can excite the passions like chocolate and frozen desserts and when you put them together, magical things can happen. While we make a few delicious chocolate flavors all year round, every February we jump over to the dark side and go gaga for chocolate.

The lineup for 2011 is:

• Chocolate Balsamic Strawberry
• Turtle
• Rocky Ride
• Cherry Chocolate Chip Sorbet
• Dark Chocolate
• John Do Ya?
• Chocolate Heat

Check out the Gelato Page for the full details on the special flavors and even better, check out the Cheese Shop or Deli for a taste of chocolate nirvana. Flavors being made all February and available in March while supplies last so if chocolate is your vice, don’t wait too long to head out for a scoop or two!

CITY GOAT CONTEST – Winners Announced!!

First off, a huge heartfelt-thanks from all of us for the amazing submissions we received all through January. No lie, a few of them were recreated in my kitchen; they just looked so good I had to give them a taste. We had so many submissions that in the end we couldn’t pick just one. So instead of a Grand Prize Winner, we are presenting honors to First, Second, and Third Place with 3 special gifts.

1st Place goes to Brian Prodin for his amazing Goat Cheese Truffles. Brian has won a free seat in our March 27th Goat Cheese Tasting (a $25 value)

2nd Place belongs to Sze Yen Chan for a delicious Caramelized Onion and Thyme Tart, adorned with crumbled City Goat. A free City Goat with accompaniment of choice awaits!

3rd Place goes to Mindy Reznik for delightful Peach Preserve and City Goat-stuffed Pastries. She wins a handmade City Goat to either cook up or eat simply with some crusty bread.

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the contest – you can be sure there are more to come!

Here are all of the scrumptious entries – start salivating!

Events

Come on down to the Creamery Cheese Shop on Plaza Drive and enjoy special tastings, classes and tours with the folks who make and sell our American Cheese Society award-winning cheese. Check out our Events page for the full scoop!

Next Tasting:  Get Your Goat

Thursday, February 10 * 6-8 pm * $25 in advance, $30 at the door.  Pre-registration required.

Gather ’round, friends of the humble goat, for a cheese tasting crafted just for your discerning palate!  We’ll open up the fine and various world of goat cheese as we taste samples both soft and hard, tangy and smooth.  We’ll learn all about the properties of this milk, our relationship with our farmers, and the complex story behind goats’ milk scarcity during Michigan winters.  Come celebrate our favorite rambunctious ruminant and gain new appreciation for the whole range of their delicious cheese!

Price includes a coupon for 20%-off of your entire purchase in the Cheese Shop (that night only).

Mozzarella Classes

From September through May, you can learn with the masters of mozzarella how to make your own freshly-stretched fiore di latte at home! Whether you regularly make cheeses in your kitchen or have never set your eyes on a block of curd, we will guide you through all of the steps necessary to set fresh milk, cut the curds, and stretch ‘em up into fresh balls of mozzarella and a couple truly special (and slightly decadent) regional Italian specialties.

Every Saturday from 12 – 2:30 at the Creamery! $50 at the door/$45 prepaid

Culture Magazine: The Word on Cheese!

If you aren’t familiar with this publication, Culture magazine is one of oldest dedicated to the art of cheesemaking. They have published countless articles that are worthy of being in queue on any cheese-lover’s reading list. Earlier this year, Matt Rubiner of Rubiner’s Cheesemongors & Grocers in Great Barrington, MA came out to spend some time with us and wrote a great article on his adventures with the Creamery. Filled with drool-inducing shots of cheese and some expert wordsmithing, I’d love to invite you all to read the full piece.

Culture was kind enough to post a PDF of the article for you to download if you’d like to check it out. Thanks, guys!

Who We Are

Zingerman’s Creamery is dedicated to crafting handmade cheeses and gelato using traditional methods to both honor the rich tradition of the art of cheesemaking and create the most full-flavored products we can. Using local milk from both Calder Dairy and Green Meadow Dairy, low-temperature pasteurization, and lots of time to draw out and enhance the amazing flavors of the milk, we make our products to-order every week for our wholesale customers and our Cheese Shop.

We think all of that adds up to cheese and gelato with flavor that truly stands out. But while we may think you can really taste the difference, the only taste that truly matters is your own. We’d love to share a taste of what is exciting us for the day, or something that looks intriguing to you, whatever it is, everything you buy from us is 100% guaranteed. If you aren’t happy with your purchase, just let us know and we’ll get you another slice or scoop on us, or refund your hard-earned cash!

Proud member of the Michigan Cheese Makers Cooperative!