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Arts & Life

The Best Of Everything

May 3 from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

We will celebrate with food and culture from around the world
including Asia, Poland, Ireland, Italy and Greece, with a special
tribute to Jewish and African American cultures. Delectable
ethnic food will be served throughout the day,
along with diverse cultural entertainment.

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Matzah!

Enjoy fried matzah like you've never imagined it.

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Enjoy shuttle service to and from

at the Masonic Temple

April 26 - May 15

• Newly Renovated
Inside and Out

• Shuttle Service to
all Major Venues

• Our Specialties...
"Filet and
Chicken Piccata"

• Ballroom Dancing
every Friday &
Saturday

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robably not, but for
sure it is more abun-
dant today than ever
before ... and today served
in so many more restau-
rants ... prepared in such
odd ways that one would
DANNY
hardly recognize the tradi-
RASKIN
tional Jewish dish of
Local
Passover.
Columnist
It is ordered now all year
long in loads of places where
matzah brei, or just plain
the women's section.
fried matzah, scrambled or omelet,
At Lieberman and Citron on
has become an even bigger breakfast
Linwood, a cab pulled up and out
and lunch favorite.
came Jimmy Laker and Eli Springer
The traditional old standby is still
... for fried matzah made by owner
the favorite ... but fried matzah these
Murray
Lieberman ... Jimmy was the
days can be gotten at some places in
passenger and Eli drove since it was
so many styles that the matzah is its
his cab ... And there was Belle
only identification.
Horenstein sitting and watching in
Here in this area, Bloom's at the
Vineyards on Northwestern Highway, utter amazement as Simon Ehrlich
ate all the fried matzah her hubby,
Farmington Hills, is serving it 15 dif-
Max
Horenstein, could make at their
ferent ways ... dark chocolate, apple
Max's
Delicatessen on Southfield ...
cinnamon, cottage cheese and peach-
es, bananas
and straw-
berry, etc. ...
In New
York, it is
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At The Vineyards
.,=
not uncom-
mon to even
a 1 FRIED MATZO STYLES'
see it with
Dine in or Carry Out
peanut but-
ter, among
One of the many fried matzah signs now in nation's windows.
many other
odd concoctions
Finally, after his eighth order, she told
... At the new Sky Deli on Orchard
Simon he would get sick and he
Lake Road, Farmington Hills, a big
replied, "If I do, blame it on Maxie.
favorite year-round is with salami,
He's the one who made the bet."
onions, etc. ... Lovers of sauteed
Yossi's Israeli Cuisine at the Robin's
green peppers wouldn't think of hav-
Nest Plaza at Orchard Lake Road and
ing fried matzah without them.
14 Mile in West Bloomfield will close
Years ago, when the inmates at
the
entire eight days of Passover, but
then-called Jackson State Prison were
will
serve fried matzah when it
given fried matzah with chicken din-
reopens
Monday, May 2 ... However,
ners for the Passover seder that Jewish
oodles of places will be featuring the
inmates used to have, brought by
dish daily during Passover ... with a
Jewish chaplain Rabbi Joshua Sperka
majority sticking to the traditional.
and myself, many of them would eat
MOST OF THOSE who never
the fried matzah and stuff the chick-
visited
Detroit, and Detroiters them-
en in their shirts ... One time,
selves,
might
not have rated it among
Sammy Fleisher, Harry's brother, ate
the
top
four
dining-out
cities in the
the chicken and stuffed his shirt with
United States.
fried matzah ... When the inmates

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found out, they began slap-
ping him in the chest.
Another inmate, William
"Candy" Davidson, who
passed himself off as a Jew
because he said they always
got good things to eat on
their holidays, loved fried
matzah doused in a combi-
nation of sugar and cinna-
mon and ate whatever he
could get ... So much that
he couldn't eat the chicken
and so put two pieces of the
bird in his shirt ... Then
came the razzing about him
looking like he belonged in

I think that I shall
never see fried matzah
growing on a tree.

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Detroit, MI 48201

1477 John R
Troy, MI

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