If you do nothing else on your next trip to the market make sure you stop into this store! Sidenote story: So while at R Hirt Jr. Heidi was using my camera to take pictures and for some reason she decided to set it down somewhere in the store probably to play with one of the cool toys we found on the third floor, but anyway. We walked the 3 blocks back to the store where we last had it and I was certain my camera was lost forever with all of our great pictures!
Heidi was try ing to be positive, but who was she kidding! She set the camera down in a store filled with wall to wall shoppers adjacent to a market with thousands of people filling bags and baskets.
Well we got to the store and — Someone had turned it in! My camera was sitting in the front office waiting to be claimed. Moral of this visit: Every time we go to Eastern Market it is a brand new, fun, exciting adventure.
There is so much to see just in this place alone — but we have more of Detroit to discover! I was born in Flint, lived in Troy until elementary school, moved to the Dearborn area after that and then my family moved to Auburn Hills. It seems that no matter what part of metro Detroit I was in, one common denominator was the same.
No metro-Detroiter actually goes to the city of Detroit. This is how I grew up viewing Detroit. I went to South Carolina for school and quickly learned not to say that I was from Detroit. I live in a dinky little town sandwiched between Dearborn and Detroit. Actually, there are loads of great things to do in this Forbidden City and it is high time someone started talking about these things!
Now my turn — My name is Heidi and I grew up in the beautiful, historic and vibrant city of Charleston, South Carolina. I must say, it is a wonderful thing to say…yes, I am from Charleston. Now, when my husband decided that he was going to continue his schooling in a direct suburb of Detroit, I was distraught.
No seriously…I was really upset. Would the joy of experiencing historical beauty be accessible to me when I desired? Everything that I would ever need was right in my own town. I do have a beautiful, historic and vibrant city at my finger tips! Keeping with the theme of ships we decided to call the documentation of our escapades a voyage.
Why are we doing this? We fell into this second category. Our goal is to encourage those of you that live close to the city to take advantage of all it has to offer. Detroit is a BIG city — the entire cities of Boston, San Francisco and the Isle of Manhattan can all fit within the Detroit city limits while still having 20 square miles to spare.
As a result of population and business decline in such a big city — yes, there are parts of Detroit that are in pretty bad shape, we admit that. Blight and neglect is an issue with many neigborhoods throughout the city, but too often those stories get told while the positive parts of Detroit get overlooked. Sure — we would love to solve all the problems Detroit has had for decades — but that is not the purpose of this blogging experience for us.
Yet everytime we go Downtown, to Midtown, or any of the vibrant communities still holding onto the hope that this city has something great to offer — there is a great sense of — Pride. Try it — venture out to the heart of the city — let down your hair and live life on the edge. If you stop expecting Detroit to be NYC or Chicago and accept it for the exciting city that it is — you will be pleasantly suprised.
After much delibera tion as to which great Detroit location should be our first blog — we decided upon Eastern Market. Here is why: I Jessica have lived an hour or less away from the city my whole life and yet somehow never knew we had such a market! Why have I never gone there before? How did I not know about this place? So, after I relocated right outside the Detroit city limits this was the first great venture I made to the City.
My story is a little different. Jessica and another friend were heading downtown to Eastern Market about a year ago and they extended an invitation to me. I had heard of this mysterious market before and was a little uncertain if this was really something that would be worth my Saturday. I was quite leery about accepting the invitation, but I went ahead and decided to venture out — and wow, am I glad I did!
We had so much fun. This was really my first introduction to downtown other than a Tigers baseball game. So, when it came to making a decision regarding this first post about Detroit, I naturally thought about the first place I went in this city: Eastern Market.
There is so much to tell, it is hard to know where to begin, but here it is. For nearly years thousands of locals have flooded the sheds at Eastern Market for delicious fresh produce, meats, spices and pretty much everything else. Get this — Eastern Market is the largest historic public market in the United States covering over 40 acres. Thankfully there were 5 large sheds where the vendors set up shop so we were protected from the elements.
On busy days more than 40, people flock to the market from 5am-5pm to get their goods. Advice to all: the earlier you get there the better!
There is no way to count all the vendors and different kinds of items for sale, so here are a few that stood out to us:. I mean the apple blossom is our state flower, there is a movement trying to make Apple Cider our state drink and I officially nominate Apple Cider Donuts as our state dessert. That said — Eastern Market has no shortage of apples in the fall. A week previous to this outing, I had gone apple picking with Heidi out near Ypsilanti. There is apple pie, apple crisp, apple cake, caramel apples, applesauce, apple bread, apple crepes which is for another upcoming post , just plain apples.
And if you still think that is too much — split the apples with a friend, or two, or three. Fresh off the branch apples straight from the orchard for this price? Flowers: Eastern Market is a great place to get flowers. You can buy a fresh cut bunch for a fraction of the cost at a florist or your local grocery chain. These flowers are big, bold and gorgeous.
A perfect accent to that vase you have under the counter in your kitchen. The Market also has no shortage of planted flowers either. In the spring Eastern Market hosts a Flower Day — the absolute best time to get those flowers for your garden. This is the place to go for year-round great prices on seasonal flowers.
Heidi and I decided to buy potted herbs to start kitchen herb gardens. We filled a flat with 10 pots — and got the whole thing for 10 bucks. These herbs are a great asset to have in your kitchen to add to your meals — fresh herbs have so much more flavor then dried, and all they require is a little bit of water to keep on giving. So, for someone who loves trying new flavors this Market is the greatest place to find them. Of course every vendor has different prices so shop around a little bit — and feel free to do a little negotiating.
Produce Stands: Tons of produce…what else can be said. Mushrooms, broccoli, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, carrots, celerey,…the list goes on. There is quite the variety. Some farmers sell nationally grown produce, but most are bringing in things they have grown on their own MI farms. The prices are great and the taste and quality are better than any grocery store. In Shed 2 a local chef appears every Saturday to give a demonstration of a recipe that can be made with the many varieties of foods found here.
If you like fresh, if you like reasonable prices, and you enjoy trying new flavors — these produce stands are a must for you! You can buy this cookbook at the Market in the center of Shed 3 or online from most major book sellers. Go to the Eastern Market website for directions, hours, upcoming eve nts and anything else you would need to know.
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Bon Voyage! Renaissance Center Station Tower , Level 2 7. Station Corner of Michigan and Cass Avenues Once finished at the Ren Cen, we decided to brave the cold and walk down to the Guardian Building. This really took some bravery, the wind was so strong and bitterly cold — it was hard to even breath, but the short walk was worth it as the Guardian building was the highlight of our day!
Like many of the structures in Detroit, the Guardian Building has early century beauty that has been preserved for all to enjoy even today. We can bore you with all of its history, but the point is to share with you what we enjoyed from our experience.
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Unchanged by time, you can step back into it for a great all-around experience. If you do nothing else on your next trip to the market make sure you stop into this store! Sidenote story: So while at R Hirt Jr. Heidi was using my camera to take pictures and for some reason she decided to set it down somewhere in the store probably to play with one of the cool toys we found on the third floor, but anyway.
We walked the 3 blocks back to the store where we last had it and I was certain my camera was lost forever with all of our great pictures! Heidi was try ing to be positive, but who was she kidding!
She set the camera down in a store filled with wall to wall shoppers adjacent to a market with thousands of people filling bags and baskets. Well we got to the store and — Someone had turned it in! My camera was sitting in the front office waiting to be claimed.
Moral of this visit: Every time we go to Eastern Market it is a brand new, fun, exciting adventure. There is so much to see just in this place alone — but we have more of Detroit to discover!
I was born in Flint, lived in Troy until elementary school, moved to the Dearborn area after that and then my family moved to Auburn Hills.
It seems that no matter what part of metro Detroit I was in, one common denominator was the same. No metro-Detroiter actually goes to the city of Detroit. This is how I grew up viewing Detroit. I went to South Carolina for school and quickly learned not to say that I was from Detroit. I live in a dinky little town sandwiched between Dearborn and Detroit. Actually, there are loads of great things to do in this Forbidden City and it is high time someone started talking about these things!
Now my turn — My name is Heidi and I grew up in the beautiful, historic and vibrant city of Charleston, South Carolina. I must say, it is a wonderful thing to say…yes, I am from Charleston.
Now, when my husband decided that he was going to continue his schooling in a direct suburb of Detroit, I was distraught. No seriously…I was really upset. Would the joy of experiencing historical beauty be accessible to me when I desired?
Everything that I would ever need was right in my own town. I do have a beautiful, historic and vibrant city at my finger tips! Keeping with the theme of ships we decided to call the documentation of our escapades a voyage. Why are we doing this? We fell into this second category. Our goal is to encourage those of you that live close to the city to take advantage of all it has to offer. Detroit is a BIG city — the entire cities of Boston, San Francisco and the Isle of Manhattan can all fit within the Detroit city limits while still having 20 square miles to spare.
As a result of population and business decline in such a big city — yes, there are parts of Detroit that are in pretty bad shape, we admit that. Blight and neglect is an issue with many neigborhoods throughout the city, but too often those stories get told while the positive parts of Detroit get overlooked.
Sure — we would love to solve all the problems Detroit has had for decades — but that is not the purpose of this blogging experience for us. Yet everytime we go Downtown, to Midtown, or any of the vibrant communities still holding onto the hope that this city has something great to offer — there is a great sense of — Pride. Try it — venture out to the heart of the city — let down your hair and live life on the edge.
If you stop expecting Detroit to be NYC or Chicago and accept it for the exciting city that it is — you will be pleasantly suprised. After much delibera tion as to which great Detroit location should be our first blog — we decided upon Eastern Market.
Here is why: I Jessica have lived an hour or less away from the city my whole life and yet somehow never knew we had such a market! Why have I never gone there before? How did I not know about this place? So, after I relocated right outside the Detroit city limits this was the first great venture I made to the City. My story is a little different.
Jessica and another friend were heading downtown to Eastern Market about a year ago and they extended an invitation to me. I had heard of this mysterious market before and was a little uncertain if this was really something that would be worth my Saturday.
I was quite leery about accepting the invitation, but I went ahead and decided to venture out — and wow, am I glad I did! We had so much fun. This was really my first introduction to downtown other than a Tigers baseball game. So, when it came to making a decision regarding this first post about Detroit, I naturally thought about the first place I went in this city: Eastern Market. There is so much to tell, it is hard to know where to begin, but here it is.
For nearly years thousands of locals have flooded the sheds at Eastern Market for delicious fresh produce, meats, spices and pretty much everything else. Get this — Eastern Market is the largest historic public market in the United States covering over 40 acres. Thankfully there were 5 large sheds where the vendors set up shop so we were protected from the elements. On busy days more than 40, people flock to the market from 5am-5pm to get their goods.
Advice to all: the earlier you get there the better! There is no way to count all the vendors and different kinds of items for sale, so here are a few that stood out to us:. I mean the apple blossom is our state flower, there is a movement trying to make Apple Cider our state drink and I officially nominate Apple Cider Donuts as our state dessert. That said — Eastern Market has no shortage of apples in the fall. A week previous to this outing, I had gone apple picking with Heidi out near Ypsilanti.
There is apple pie, apple crisp, apple cake, caramel apples, applesauce, apple bread, apple crepes which is for another upcoming post , just plain apples. And if you still think that is too much — split the apples with a friend, or two, or three. Fresh off the branch apples straight from the orchard for this price? Flowers: Eastern Market is a great place to get flowers.
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