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Michael Chammas

formerly of La Bistro

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1i welcome Anis
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formerly of Joe Miler's

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Saturday: Dinner
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(2 blocks north of McNichols)

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Above: Ilana Goss, Dorothy Barak and
Karen Goss, all of West Bloomfield,
knead dough for challahs.

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Right: Ilana Goss tastes the finished
product.

process. Both women had a lot of fun.
"We made the dough that I brought,
so she could have challahs baking in the
oven while waiting for others to rise,"
says Groundland, who says it took her
18 years to make good challah.
"It was great," says Newman, a
mother of three Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit students. "What's
better than fresh-baked challah?"
Making challah from scratch was
something Newman always wanted to
learn how to do, which is why her
husband bid on the auction basket for
her. She's proud that she can now
make gorgeous, delicious loaves.
"My mother never baked challah, so
she was very impressed," Newman says.
"My family was very proud of me."
This newfound skill has connected
her to other people in the strangest of
ways, says Newman. She has not yet
taught others like Groundland taught
her, but "it has opened up conversa-
tions with other people about their
recipes."
Everyone who does it agrees: There is
something spiritual about baking bread,
whatever kind; it is a soulful skill.
"The minute you start talking about
it, I want to go in the kitchen and do
it," says chef-author Mark Bittman.
"There's just something about the
leisurely aspect of it that's really great.
There's not a lot of food that is as sen-
sual as bread dough. I don't know any-
body who's gotten into bread making
who hasn't gone on doing it for the
rest of their lives."
Karen Goss was young when she
started baking challah. She can't
remember if it was because her older

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sister, Dorothy Barak, brought back
culinary zeal after a year in Israel or if
it was the influence of their baking
bubbie, Fanya Blejchman, who lived
with them, but she knows it started
early and took root.
"I was maybe 13," says Goss, now
43 and living in West Bloomfield.
"Our family has Shabbos dinner
together all the time — my two sisters
and my brother. Between my sister and
I, somebody usually bakes the challah.
"The kids love having fresh-baked
challah — especially when the college
kids come home," said Goss, who also
led baking classes for her synagogue,
Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
"Bread is one of those very basic,
ancient foods," says Barak of West
Bloomfield. "When you have nothing
else, you have bread.
"The smell of fresh-baked bread is
warm, homey, it ties me to my grand-
mother. It's one of those links. I love
those links." ❑

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