Our Books
Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon
A whole book about bacon? Absolutely! There's more to bacon than you ever dreamed of. You'll learn about the curious history of bacon, about some of the many kinds of bacon and how they are made (from Arkansas peppered to applewood smoked and a dozen others in between) and most importantly, the recipes section will enable you to put your new-found knowledge to (very tasty!) work. A great gift for yourself or for the bacon-enthusiast in your life!
Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon, Cloth Edition
This beautiful cloth edition of Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon: Stories of Pork Bellies, Hush Puppies, Rock 'n' Roll Music and Bacon Fat Mayonnaise is one of only 175 first editions from the first printing. Each handmade cover, designed and created by Ann Arbor book artist Jean Buescher Bartlett, has slight, unique variations. The front and back are both dark red coated cloth laid over archival book boards. The spine is straw-colored linen book cloth. Black linen book cloth is used for traditional, protective, fore-edge corners.
Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon, Leather Edition
This special pigskin leather edition of Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon: Stories of Pork Bellies, Hush Puppies, Rock 'n' Roll Music and Bacon Fat Mayonnaise is one of only 20 first editions from the first printing. Continuing the long tradition of fine leather book binding, each of these 20 copies was sewn and bound in pigskin leather by Jon Buller, owner of Bessenberg Bindery, an artisanal fine book bindery that has been creating beautiful books in Ann Arbor since 1978. Each handcrafted copy has slight, unique variations.
Zingerman's Guide to Good Eating
Zingerman's co-founder Ari Weinzweig has collected food information, food history, personal foodmaker stories, and recipes that really work. It's an excellent resource for experienced cooks and an inspiration for those of us who are just starting down the road, and is written in a fun-to-read, approachable style.
New edition, 2008. The internal staff guide for the Zingerman's Community of Businesses, now available to the public for purchase too. 60 pages packed full of Zingerman's recipes for business success, forged over decades of experience in creating what Inc Magazine has called "The Coolest Small Company in America".
Or, Strange but True Tales of Butter Luck, a Slovenian Castle, and the Irish Origins of Halloween. A collection of histories, reminiscences, and recipes from Ari Weinzweig, Elizabeth Kostova, Eileen Spring, Kevin Danaher, and Alex Young. All proceeds go to benefit the nonprofit food bank, Food Gatherers.