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About Bodega Catering
Vicky Fingeroot’s Bodega Catering is an exclusive service “catering for your campfire or cabin”. Closing her Main Street venue and pouring her creative culinary skills into local and mainland catering offers a distinct advantage: with her energies freed from running a store, she’s now able to focus exclusively on her clients, through offerings ranging from a simple tin of gourmet Mac & Cheese to full-service packages featuring multi-course meals complemented with aesthetic table arrangements and printed menus. In her words, she promises the skills of a private chef “catering for your campfire or cabin”, with attention to many needs in between.
Vicky comes to her craft with a wealth of prior experience in the hospitality fields, operating an events-planning business early on, then spending years gaining expertise in cuisine at esteemed restaurants in Detroit and Traverse City, along with serving as sous chef for a private chef in Lake Leelanau. World travel has inspired her tastes, with recent forays bringing her to Tokyo to learn the nuances of sushi, soba, yakitori, and ramen; and to San Sebastian in Spain’s Basque region (home to more Michelin-rated restaurants per capita than anywhere in the world) for a deep dive into classic Mediterranean fare.
Using a licensed, modern kitchen for her new operations, Fingeroot will be aided by the proven talents of her ‘Bodega Buddies’, staff from the former Main Street venue. Together they’ll serve up a variety of options: catered entrees for the discerning customer covering Asian, American Fusion, Southwest/Mexican, Italian focusing on home-made pastas, and fresh whitefish from regional fisheries fashioned into whitefish piccata and pâté. Special ticketed events are planned for the summer and beyond, as Bodega Catering partners with Grand Rapids’ award-winning Long Road Distillers to stage multi-food and drink dinners such as ‘Fresh and New Flavors for Spring’ and ‘Fall into Winter’, replete with local and international dishes that can be served either as appetizer or main course – all made from local sources to emphasize convenience. The business will have a physical presence at island Farmers Markets during summer, and digitally year-round, with website links to weekly specials which can be pre-ordered. Vicky will also offer in-person and online cooking classes as well, including an expert-led class in foraging for forest edibles such as mushrooms and other delicacies, all of which can be used in cooking. With all these possibilities, Bodega Catering enters a rich new chapter in local and regional culinary service.”
About Studio Ghibli
Studio Ghibli, Inc. (株式会社スタジオジブ) is a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo. It has a strong presence in the animation industry and has expanded its portfolio to include various media such as short subjects, television commercials and two television films. Their work has been well received by both critics and audiences and recognized with numerous awards. Their mascot and most recognizable symbol, the character Totoro from the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro, is a giant spirit inspired by raccoon dogs (tanuki) and cats (neko). Among the studio’s highest-grossing films are Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), Ponyo (2008), and The Boy and the Heron (2023). Studio Ghibli was founded on June 15, 1985, by the directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, after acquiring Topcraft’s assets.
Four of the studio’s films are among the ten highest-grossing Japanese feature films; Spirited Away is third, grossing 31.68 billion yen in Japan and over US$380 million worldwide. Three of their films have won the Animage Grand Prix award, four have won the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, and seven have received Academy Award nominations. Spirited Away won the 2002 Golden Bear and the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
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