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LUGGAGE
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6253 ORCHARD LAKE RD. • NORTH OF MAPLE RD.

In Sugar Tree • West Bloomfield

Shop Mon. thru Sat. 10-6:30 • Thurs. 10-8 • Sun. 12-5 • Beginning Dec. 11 • Extended Holiday Hours M-F 10-8

248-855-3180 • www.travelersworld.com

BRAVO!

university musical society • University of Michigan

Winner!

National 1999

Tabasco Community

Cookbook Award

1999 ForeWard

Magazine Award

"...a feast for

all the senses!"

Graham Kerr

Recipes, legends and lore

celebrating 120 years of the

University Musical Society,

"Eclectic, exciting,

and fascinating..."

Jacques Pepin

University of Michigan

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1-877-238-0503 •

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chase the seven-cookie bouquet for
$45.50. If you have to order for a
bigger crowd, you can get 20 in a
basket for $130. Cookies in a mug or
planter and other unique items are
for sale, too.

GREAT AMERICAN BASKET COMPANY,

29594

Orchard Lake Road,
Farmington Hills, (248) 626-9050.
The last time a former Detroiter
living in Texas visited this area, he
stopped at the Great American Basket
Company for his favorite Michigan-
themed goodies. Wendy Rosenthal
and Jaime Tringale can help you enjoy
the same, with Vernors Ginger Ale,
Sanders Hot Fudge topping, Mucky
Duck Mustard and Traverse Bay
Cherry Wine, representing the bounty
of Michigan products.
If you need a "New Baby Basket",
golf-Chemed arrangement or special
"Get Well" pick-me-upper with a
decorative mug, fragrant teas and
other comfy helpers, you can find it
here, as well.

THE HOMEMADE GOURMET,
3774 Darlington Road North,
Bloomfield Hills. (248) 644-3777.
Wendy Mossman's party trays and
gift baskets are labors of love, decorat-
ed as they often are with the special
touches of rustic branches or berries,
or even plated on a keepsake or heir-
loom platter of your own. Her signa-
ture pastries and baked goods include
tortes, pies (the cherry pie with a con-
centric-circle design of heart cut-outs
is one personal favorite), cookies, bars,
muffins and scones.
If a cookie assortment is your pref-
erence, some of her popular flavors are
the pecan diamond, apricot streusel,
lemon or chocolate bars, and "eights"
— a numerically shaped, rich butter
cookie. Oversized cookies are $1 each;
smaller varieties tend to be 75 cents a
piece. All trays and baskets are
designed by customer request.

PRONTO! GIFTS TO Go,
501 S. Washington, Royal Oak,
(248) 546-1971.
Ever since Tex-Mex joined the ver-
nacular of restaurant lingo in the
1980s, spicy foods have been gaining
more respect — and shelf space — in
markets everywhere.
Ditto for the counters at Pronto!

Gifts to Go! — the newest kid on the
block from the always successful Jim
Domanski, proprietor of the Pronto
123 restaurant across the street on
Washington.
For the fan of flaming foods, try
the "Fire Bucket." Inside are Cajun
pretzels, hot chips, "Olives in Pain,"
"Burning Nuts" and some truly incen-
diary habaneras and salsas.
For tamer tastes, you might enjoy
the $30 "Goodie Basket," adorned
with two cream cheese brownies, two
caramel nut and two double choco-
late brownies, with two each of
peanut butter, trail mix and choco-
late chip cookies.

RODNICK BROTHERS, 21032
Groesbeck, Warren, (810) 779-3200.
Yes, you've heard of them, and
that's because Rodnick Brothers —
with 50 successful years of business
operation — is known far and wide as
the empress of fresh produce baskets.
Although you can certainly still get
gorgeous arrangements of large every-
day items like apples, oranges,
bananas, etc., did you know that bas-
kets in the year 2000 will also contain
kiwi, mango, pineapple, star fruit and
other exotic varieties?
Rodnick's baskets range in price
from $20 - $200, and can be complet-
ed with just about any food type you
desire. The Junk Food Basket con-
tains, for example, M&M's, soda pop
and gourmet potato chips. Their gour-
met baskets are culinary works of art.
Tell Jody Rodnick what you prefer,
and it will be included.

SWEET SUCCESS, West Bloomfield,
(248) 788-2626.
With one quick phone call, Karen
Cohen Tessler can help you select a
holiday, or anytime, tray, basket or
novelty container imbued with the
special flair of one of the most innova-
tive gift basket creators in the city.
Sweet Success offers more than 50
choices of gourmet candy, chocolates,
cookies and nuts, as well as novelty
and uniquely packaged items such as
chocolate lace, peppermint bark,
fudge, coffees, chocolate-dipped
Oreos, truffles and foil-wrapped novel-
ties.
Sweet Success also offers chocolate-
dipped fruits, corporate-themed gifts,
and bar and bar mitzvah and wedding-