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Health watchers are beating
a path to Buddy's Pizza ... The
Northwestern Hwy. site in Farmington
Hills, along with other Buddy's Pizza
locales make its pizza dough with no
sugar or oil ... Also available is low-fat
pizza or with lactose free-cheeses plus
light or no cheese.
Pizza and flowers may not have any
connection, but one of the attentive and
efficient waitresses at Buddy's, Farmington
Hills, Lauren Grushoff, daughter of corn-
munity-ites Kerry and Terry Grushoff, is
the granddaughter of years-ago floral con-
noisseur Jerry Grushoff, brother of one-
time Dexter Blvd. florist Morrie Grushoff
... And also, maybe the fact that one
of the gals in our party, granddaughter
Hannah Raskin, always searching for the
best vegetarian pizza, almost took up flo-
ral design at California State University at
Chico in Chico, Calif., but has changed to
gerontology ... Hannah thinks she found
the tops in veggie pies at Buddy's with its
thin multi-grain crust.
BIG PLANS ARE in store for food
service at the new Henry Ford West
Bloomfield Hospital opening on 15 Mile,
west of Drake ... With Matt Prptice,
head of the Matt Prentice Restaurant
Group, as its culinary director, patients
will be served healthy dishes made with
organic ingredients ... This is certainly
a huge revolutionary change in hospital
dining ... In fact, the food is expected to
be of such high quality that its Henry's
Cafeteria, open to the public, will have the
same menu as the hospital's patients.
ANOTHER IN THE Leo's Coney Island
chain is set to open on Northwestern
south of 12 Mile, Southfield ... Brothers

Leo and Pete Stassinopoulos
are expected to fling open
its doors in about a month,
depending on inspections and
final construction.
MAIL DEPT. ... "What do
restaurants and delis mean
when they advertise "kosher"
or "kosher-style" corned beef
on their menu? What is the
difference between kosher
corned beef, kosher-style
corned beef and the corned beef that you
get at non-Jewish delis? Is there a differ-
ence in the corned beef one would get at
one deli or another other than the source,
preparation and flavoring? Is corned beef
sold or served in Jewish delis from a sup-
plier of kosher meats or, at least, from an
animal ritually or not ritually slaughtered
and are the ingredients used in cooking
the beef inherently kosher or, at least, not
inherently kosher?
"Outside of my home, I am not strictly
kosher but I eat no food that is not kosher
by definition or which contains non-
kosher ingredients. By kosher/non-kosher,
I refer to the nature of the animal and
ingredients and both by the processing
except if processing introduces non-
kosher ingredients. What I am mostly con-
cerned with is whether there is a differ-
ence in the meat and cooking ingredients
of Jewish delis and non-Jewish delis." ...
Saul Chudnow.
Although it is widely used, to me there
is no such thing as kosher-style ... It is
or it isn't ... The expression very loosely
refers to food that can be produced as
kosher except from forbidden animals
like pigs or shellfish and does not contain
both meat and milk ... In some states

using "kosher-style" is illegal
as a misleading term ... Other
than kashrut law, there is no
culinary difference in the
corned beef one gets at kosher
or non-kosher delicatessens.
There are no delis here that I
know of serving kosher corned
beef by the pound ... The
delicatessen would have to be
100 percent kosher since even
if it is bought as kosher from a
supplier, once a non-kosher knife touches
beef, for example, it is no longer deemed
kosher ... In most cases, there is no differ-
ence in the meat ... It all depends on the
preparation that brings out tenderness,
taste, etc. ... Metro Detroit is blessed with
excellent Jewish delis serving corned beef
and other products that are not kosher.
GOOD EMPLOYEE DEPT. ... Maria
Peltz, senior claims administrator at
Kane Mostyn Insurance Agency, West
Bloomfield ... Very thorough, efficient and
client dedicated.
REMEMBERING DEPT. ... By Dave
Dombey ... "Some of the best years of
my life were taking pictures at weddings,
bar/bat mitzvahs and communal events in
the Jewish community for over 50 years.
After giving up my photography career
about 10 years ago, I recalled meeting and
servicing some of the leaders and future
community leaders like Avern Cohn, David
Hermelin, Eli Broad, Dick Sloan, Gary
Torgow, Shostak brothers, etc.
"Inasmuch as my father was a local
entertainer and actors and actresses from
the Jewish stage used to come to our
house when they played Littman's Theater
on 12th Street, I became enthralled with
their occupation. After receiving my first

camera upon graduation from Durfee
Junior High School, I'd go downtown to
the Fox and Michigan theaters, photo-
graph the stage show, hurry home to pro-
cess the photos and return backstage to
have the photos autographed. Celebrities
like Bob Hope, Robert Cummings, Peter
Lind Hayes, Elsa Maxwell, Binnie Barnes,
Henny Youngman and so many more._
"After returning from the war, I started
my career in the local community, volun-
teering my services to photograph fund-
raising dinners which were the rage in the
'50s and '60s. Like the City of Hope's annual
dinner with Ray Milland, Jayne Mansfield,
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Vivian Blaine, Barbara
Stanwyck, Eva Marie Saint, and others.
"Organizations like Yeshiva University,
Akiva Hebrew Day School, Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah and Federation allowed me to
meet and photograph Ted Kennedy, Abe
Fortas, Hubert Humphrey, Jack Benny,
Ronald Reagan, Jackie Mason, Jan Peerce,
Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pincas
Zuckerman, George Will, Jimmy Roosevelt
among the many. Today, after all these
years, I still bump into people who I pho-
tographed 50-60 years ago."
CONGRATS ... To Joan Zager on her
birthday ... To Eleanor Luke on her
birthday ... To Ruth Talmer on her 60th
birthday ... To Marvin Goldman on his
90th birthday ... To Linda Wolok on her
birthday ... To Rabbi Daniel Syme of
Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township
on his 63rd birthday ... To Richard and
Ilene Karson on their 53rd anniversary ...
(Recent birthday congrats were meant for
Brenda Chudler, not "Blanche"). ❑

Danny's e-mail address is

dannyraskin@sbcglobaLnet.

201 S Old Woodward Avenue • Birmingham MI 48009
248.594.7300 • www.forterestaurant.com

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February 12 • 2009

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