"Contact Sheet" style mosaic of Zingerman's Delicatesen.
Zingerman's Deli is Ann Arbor's most famous restaurant, and rightly so. They make large over-the-top deli sandwiches from fresh top-quality ingredients. Over the years Zingerman's has branched out to sell top-notch meats, world-class cheeses, and a host of other delicacies including olives, varietal honeys, chocolates, salts, pastas, specialty sugars, peppers and sauces, tea, spices, and coffee. They have the most amazing collection of olive oils and vinegars to be found anywhere, including 150 year old balsamic vinegar that they'll let you taste for free.
Instead of expanding by opening new Zingerman's deli in different cities, they've grown by starting new food-related businesses in Ann Arbor. They've added a bakery with artisan breads and pastries, a creamery that produces wonderful butter and gelato and local cheeses, a sit-down restaurant specializing in American regional foods called Zingerman's Roadhouse, and a catering business. And, of course, for those not living in Ann Arbor, the Zingerman's Mail Order business.
Photography note:
I take most of my food photos with our very small Pentax Optio S4 digital camera because it does a good job with close-ups and is small enough to be discreet in restaurants. But the day I took this mosaic of Zingerman's, I was playing with a new zoom lens for our Nikon D70 digital camera. I shot this freehand (no tripod) and very quickly, and as you can see, my sixth frame is off quite a bit. The exposures are also all slightly different, and I didn't photoshop them to be the same. I think part of the charm of a contact sheet mosaic is it's slight exposure differences and the quirky geometry of the final image.
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