has done a fine job. There is much to like about Yotsuba ... The striking interior and a dedica- tion to good Japanese food ... Because of these, its customer base has become one of many-time returns. FORMER DETROITER Sheryll Bellman is one lucky gal.... Cindy Adams, New York Post columnist, was invited to write the forward for Sheryll's book coining out this fall, America's Great Delis: Recipes and Traditions from Coast to Coast, but had to beg off. A good thing because Cindy knows little about delicatessens, especially outside of New York ... Her late hus- band, Joe Adams, comic writer, joke book author (Strictly For Laughs) and columnist traveled extensively and was so well-versed in deli lore that he fre- quently quipped about them in his popular pennings ... much of Joey's material Cindy is proud to use. He would have loved writing the forward for Sheryll. Both Darbys and Boesky's will appear in the book ... along with many favorite delicatessens of yester- years and today. Hope the folks behind the excellent Jewish Book Fair at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit this year will have Sheryll here for their always fine event ... If they need the ex-Detroiter's New York e- mail address or phone number, I'll be happy to forward either or both to them. America's Great Delis: Recipes and Traditions from Coast to Coast should be a big seller. TRUE ISRAELI FOOD doesn't get too much more authentic than an Israeli mother's cooking for her family ... and this is what folks going to Yossi's Israeli Cuisine in West Bloomfield's Robin's Nest are getting until the end of May. Owner Yossi Benyamin's mother, Rachel Benyamin, here from Haifa with his father, Nadir, loves to cook, and is in Yossi's Israeli Cuisine kitchen making her specialties like Sambusak, among many of her homemade favorites ... Yossi serves her excellent recipe. for cholent every Saturday night, but while she is here, his moth- er will make the great dish. BEING DIAGNOSED WITH a disease is bad enough, let alone it being one without a known cure. But Joe Rothenberg, 30-year veteran of the wine business, former owner of Clover Wine Cellaz and then, before retiring, selling the vino to restaurants for L & L Wine World in Royal Oak, had only one thing in mind ... helping others with the same dreaded illness. And so was born a wonderful fund- raiser for ALS of Michigan (Lou Gehrig's Disease) ... with what Joe knows best, the holding of a wine-tast- ing event. It's the Third Annual ALS of Michigan's Friends of Wine Tasting & Auction, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 18, at Ford Motor Co. Conference and Event Center in Dearborn. Joe and friend Scott Mansfield, with whom he worked at L & L, are co- founders and chairmen of the annual fund-raiser with $125 including wine tasting from top wineries, dinner by Opus One, auction of premier col- lectible wines, dining packages, etc. For more info, call Sue Burstein Kahn, ALS of Michigan executive director, (800) 882-5764. By the way, folks can get a head start on others by going to www.alsofmi.org and bidding on auc- tion items from now until June 15. OWNERS OF Frankenmuth's Bavarian Inn, Dorothy and Bill Zehnder, aren't the only ones with 55- year longevity there ... They also have a couple of employees who were hired the same day back in 1950 ... Marie Fechter, waitress, hostess, etc., and Virgil Diamond, restaurant jack-of-all- trades maintenance manager. CONGRATS ... To Sarah Bacow on her birthday, celebrated with table for seven at Sposita's in West Bloomfield. GET WELL WISHES ... to Blanche Duke, recuperating at home after stay at Beaumont Hospital. 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