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Ban Trans Fat?
Some local restaurants already use heart-healthier cooking oils.
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OTPOURRI ...
Food writers everywhere like
Sylvia Rector at the Detroit Free
Press have joined in the battle for more
public awareness of trans fat's health danger.
"Whether Oakland County eventually
bans the use of trans fat in its 4,000-plus
restaurants, as one county commissioner
said she would like,' writes Sylvia, "health
officials are virtually unanimous: Trans
fats are bad news for our heart health"
New York City for one has already
adopted a zero trans fat policy, and major
restaurants everywhere are beginning to
follow suit.
Restaurant owners here like Ron Asmar
at Vineyards, Farmington Hills, and Gene
Woo at Hoa Hoa, Novi, among others, con-
tinue to wage a stringent fight against its
use ... The Shirlee Bloom and Deli Basket
divisions at Vineyards as well as Hoa Hoa
are all trans-fat-free ... except, possibly, for
tricklings that may be present naturally.
Read labels, folks ... Amounts of trans
fat now must be listed on all food nutrition
tabs in stores ... along with the presence
of the bad-fat hydrogenated or partially
hydrogenated vegetable oils, which are
man-made forms of saturated fat, created
when food manufacturers add hydrogen to
increase shelf life of processed foods.
MORE VALUES continue to appear at
the neighborhood favorite Romantica res-
taurant in Applegate Square, Northwestern
and Inkster, Southfield ... Lunch, Monday
through Friday, has Caesar, garden and
Greek salads with chicken, $4.95 ...
Dinners for two are now weekly specials,
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with
chicken, veal or fish entrees and soup,
$24.95 for two ... Friday and Saturday din-
the usual sellout Fun Fest by
ners, chicken, veal or fish, soup
Yossi's Israeli Cuisine in West
and two glasses of house wine,
Bloomfield ... Next one is
$34.95 for two.
Saturday, Feb. 10, from 7 p.m.
Thursdays at Romantica
for singing, dancing and dining
have been set aside as
... No charge except for your
Appreciation Day, with two or
dinner
... (248) 626-0160.
more dinners including chick-
GOOD
TO SEE an iced
en wings appetizer or prem-
plate
accompanying
the expert-
ises-made rice pudding dessert
Danny Raskin
ly
made
Caesar
salad
prepared
... Single dinner includes rice
Senior Columnist
tableside
...
No
anchovy
paste
pudding.
from
jars
either
at
Commerce
MUSIC AND FUN-
Grill, Union Lake Road, Commerce
LOVING "in" spot is now Friday and
Township, with anchovies pressed into a
Saturday evenings at Ginopolis' on the
paste and rubbed around the bowl.
Grille bar lounge, 12 Mile and Middlebelt,
READER REVIEW ... "The Stage Deli
Farmington Hills ... Never know who may
at
the Forum Shops of Caesars Palace is like
be sitting in with the Don Swindell group,
Las
Vegas itself, an oasis in the desert. New
featuring Belleville High principal, pert
York
memorabilia and posters adorn the
drummer Sheila Brown.
wall,
creating
an authentic New York atmo-
Letters to Sheila on her fine work as
sphere.
The
corned
beef and pastrami are
its new head honcho are praiseworthy
good
as
is
the
homemade
chicken soup with
accolades ... and the former Northville
knaidel
or
kreplach.
Every
table has a bucket
High assistant principal is a heck of a swell
of
dill
pickles
and
pickled
green tomatoes
drummer gal too ... The solo singing of
to
start.
Wonderful
service
and tremen-
both Don and Sheila also isn't to be missed
Paul
Smith,
Las Vegas.
dous
portions"
...
in the weekly Ginopolis funfests.
of
Bagels
With
YES,
THE
OWNER
HARD TO BEAT this deal ...
delicatessen
in
Delray
Beach,
Fla.,
is
a for-
Regular size hamburger and fries, $3,
mer
Detroiter
...
Robert
Bloom
is
the
son
every Wednesday after 6 p.m. at McVee's,
of
Harvey
Bloom
(Deli
Basket)
and
nephew
Telegraph, Southfield, Mr. Joe's, 12 Mile,
of Shirlee Bloom (Bloom's Catering), both
Southfield, and four of five Snookers spots
at Vineyards, Farmington Hills ... Full deli
(no grill at the Royal Oak site).
IF AS SOME people say, the restaurant menu for sit-down and carryout at Bagels
With.
business has become softer to the point
REUNION DEPT. ... A lot of memo-
of closings, guys like Frank Taylor and Joe
ries
will return as 1967 grads of Detroit's
Vicari evidently know little about that stuff
Henry
Ford High make plans for its 40th
... They keep opening more restaurants
togetherness
... Illustrator and cartoon-
... Frank's newest to-be is La Mystique at
ist
Howard
Fridson
the son of journalist
the Hotel St. Regis, Detroit, and Joe's is his
Esther (Allweiss) Ingber in a 1966 school
newly purchased Mesquite Grill in Canton.
play ... David Gubow never dreamt he'd
RESERVATIONS COME first for
or
a4t i ne
one day become a state representative and
then district judge ... or Susie Greenfield
the vice-president of legal operations for
the Detroit Pistons and Palace of Auburn
Hills, etc.
The big 40th by Henry Ford High is
set for Saturday, Sept. 8, at Laurel Manor,
Livonia ... Contact Ellen (Neihoff)
VanderRoest, (248) 684-7705, or e-mail
chuckandelvan@comcast.net .
ADD ANOTHER inauguration to the
swearing-in and presidential events for Mel
Ball & Colours ... The 12-piece musical
group did Gov. Jennifer Granholm's inaugu-
ral ball for 2,000 guests at Marriott Hotel,
Detroit Renaissance Center ... It had pre-
viously performed for President George W.
Bush's re-election ball in Washington, D.C.,
and three times for President Bill Clinton,
plus inaugural balls of former-Govs. James
Blanchard and John Engler.
NEW DATE IS music to many ears
like that of Sharon Schultz, for the annual
Walk of Ages by Jewish Home and Aging
Services ... From an unpredictable
September morning weather to a usually
warm and balmy May ... "'What great
news!" exclaims walker supreme Sharon,
Giorgio's of West Bloomfield's fine week-
end hostess and personable Northwest
Airlines flight attendant ... Walk of Ages
date is now Sunday, May 6, at the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield.
CONGRATS ... To Aaron Katz on his
birthday ... To Irving and Doris Novetsky
on their 65th anniversary ...To Neal
Brickner on his 50th birthday ...To Shirley
Cykiert on her birthday. 11
Danny's e-mail address is
dannyraskinc sbcglobaLnet.
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