11ff DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Where Is the Jewish in Culinary Arts?
Harriet and Irving Berg Jewish Community Center,
will be Benard L. and Rosa- will teach dance as a per-
lyn Maas artists-in- forming art to the dance-
residence at Camp drama campers. Her cla.ses
Tamarack, Ortonville, for will be conducted in the new
Melba and Sidney Winer
But this was a small part of August.
Berg, head of the art de- Dance Barn, dedicated last
their display, and turning to
partment
at
Cass
Technical
year
at the Ortonville site.
leave, I noticed a rather
quaint touch — small High School and a noted
sculptor,
will
create
outdoor
breads shaped into letters
spelling out "Yisrael" in and environmental pieces
with the assistance of cam-
Hebrew!
Touring exhibits which pers.
Mrs. Berg, director of the
no longer looked edible
Orchestra
to me — although I was Festival Dancers and Ap-
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assured they were — I prentice Dancers at the
paused somewhere bet-
ween the strawberry
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spied a gorgeous mound
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of St.. Honore pastry, and
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the entry card informed
me that it was pareve.
Now that's Jewish, I
thought. At least it's
kosher.
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did expect the Jewish chefs
to cook Jewish food. For
most, cooking kosher
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French food seemed to suf-
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fice.
The Americans displayed
some appetizing breads.
Notably classic halls, and
pumpernickel.
By ZVI VOLK
World Zionist Organiiation
JERUSALEM — Philip
Roth would be proud. The
wedding reception scene
from "Goodbye, Columbus!"
was translated into a sort of
intercollegiate competition
at Jerusalem's Binyanei
Haooma (concert and con-
vention center), as the capi-
tal hosted in January the
first International Confer-
ence and Exhibition on
Jewish Culinary Art.
The real showpiece of the
exhibit was the top floor,
where the American "team"
pitted its skills against the
teams from the Jerusalem
Plaza and from the Dan
hotel chain — the King
David, and the Dan Carmel
and Tel Aviv.
The competition was
keen. Enough food was pre-
served under plastic-like
gelatin glazes to accommo-
date three large wedding
receptions.
According to Al
Saltzman, a chef at a
Philadelphia restaurant,
their entries represented
the "nuelle" French
cooking school. That is,
the kind of cooking
which is less rich, hence
less fattening than classic
"haute cuisine". This en-
ables the consumer to
gorge without guilt.
Fruit is more acceptable
now, he informed me, and
that's why they brought
most of theirs with them.
They encountered a few dif-
ficulties coming through
customs, but no matter, the
show must go on.
Most of the chefs in atten-
dance looked exhausted. No
doubt because they were
cooking at local hotels, and
although they arrived sev-
eral days before the show,
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Tamarack Names Resident Artists
LENNY
LIEBERMAN
This pair of choclate shoes is the work of an Ameri-
can pastry-cook, Vienna-born Gunner Highland who
won five gold medals in Israel's first International
Conference and Exhibition on Jewish Culinary Art in
Jerusalem.
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only began cooking on Sun-
day — having to wait until
the end of Shabat to cook
and to shop.
Nevertheless, the dis-
plays were extensive and
ingenious. Flower ar-
rangements made from
sculpted carrots and
pumpkins, a donkey head
carved from a watermelon,
small cornish hens on a
Jewish star pastry base, and
the usual servings of pate en
croute, salmon mousse,
vegetable aspics and molds,
and all manner of exquisite
beef and poultry creations.
The question is, where
was the gefilte fish?
This question seemed to
disturb Gloria Rootshtain,
the owner-chef at the Con-
noisseur Hotel in Johan-
nesburg. A strictly kosher
hotel which serves 620
people for sedorim, Mrs.
Rootshtain is also national
aliya chairman of the South
African Zionists.
She competed in the
dairy lunch competition.
Her menu: hors
d'oeuvres such as gefilte
fish, eggs and anchovies,
pickled and chopped
herring. Fish dishes in-
cluding trout amandine,
and fish with a mus-
hroom and cream sauce.
Her combined salads in-
cluded nicoise, mus-
hroom and artichoke
hearts, Waldorf, and
cabbage. For dessert, she
served apple strudel and
cheese and cherry tarts,
followed by a huge
cheese display.
Her luncheon was very
well received — to the point
that she was surprised that
people were surprised at her
menu. "I figured that com-
ing to a Jewish Culinary
Art conference, everyone
would be cooking good,
hamische food," Mrs.
Rootshtain said. "Instead,
they seemed to be impressed
that people are still cooking
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Annual Ke yfitz Lecture on Aged
Languages Is Held in Jerusalem Starting Sun., Aug. 6th thru Thurs., Aug. 10th
JERUSALEM — Tracing
the roots of Israel quite lit:
erally through the root
words of ancient languages
was the subject of the second
annual Prof. Isadore
Keyfitz Memorial Lecture
given recently at Hebrew
University.
Lecturer was Prof. Jonas
C. Greenfield, a leading
specialist in the field of an-
cient Semitic languages.
Prof. Greenfield de-
scribed the chain of heritage
in the development of the
peoples of the Middle East,
linked from one culture to
the next by customs and
laws, as discerned from the
written records left in the
thousands of clay cuneiform
tablets and other types of
writings discovered at vari-
ous sites throughout the re-
The annual lecture-
ship, under the aegis of
the Department of As-
syriology, is made possi-
ble by the memorial fund
established last year by
the Keyfitz family "to
help further the studies
in the field of ancient cul-
tures of the Middle East."
The Memorial Fund also
offers fellowships and
grants for students, helps
expand and maintain lib-
raries, bestows a hi-annual
award for the best research
paper by a student. All stu-
dents in the field of ancient
Near Eastern studies at.all
universities of Israel are
eligible for the benefits of
the fund.
The field is actually in its
beginnings, Prof. Green-
field noted. "At any mo-
ment, at any spot in this
area, we can expect to see
great new discoveries of an-
cient written records," he
asserted, thus underlining
the importance of grants
such as the Keyfitz Fund.
Prof. Keyfitz was profes-
sor of Oriental languages,
literature and history for 40
years at the University of
Missouri. He and his wife,
Dr. Sara Feder-Keyfitz, a
sociologist-educator who
also taught at the Univer-
sity of Missouri, came to set-
tle in Israel eight years ago
and founded the Adult Edu-
cation Study Center of
Jerusalem.
Fred M. Mester, Oakland
County Circuit Court ad-
ministrator and former
chief of the civil division of
the U.S. Attorney's office in
Detroit, is one of 16 candi-
dates seeking one of the
three new Circuit Court
seats in Oakland County.
Mester is a graduate of
Central .Michigan Univer-
sity and earned his JD de-
gree from Wayne State
University law school.
He is president-elect of
the Federal Bar Association
in Detroit, and is a member
of the National District At-
torneys Association,
American Trial Lawyers
Association, American
Judicature Society, Ameri-
can Arbitration Associa-
tion, and the Oakland and
South Oakland County Bar
Associations.
Mester is chairman of the
U.S. District Court's annual
new lawyers seminars.
Mester Seeking Court Seat
Be kind. Remember
everyone you meet is fight-
ing a hard battle.
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