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achel Leemis calls herself
a typical Jewish girl. She
grew up in Bloomfield
Township, went to Hillel Day School
and Cranbrook, and worships at Adat
Shalom Synagogue in Farmington
Hills.
She also describes herself as a res-
taurant girl. Now 30, she started work-
ing at Leo's Coney Island at Maple and
Telegraph at age 14.
"I'm a foodie, a chef and a mom:'
she says. "Food nourishes families,
conversation, the soul and the heart.
I've always wanted to be part of that.
It's fulfilling and gratifying:'
She attended George Washington
University, majoring in small business
management and marketing, and has
not stopped working in the food busi-
ness. When asked why she was wait-
ing on tables after college, she would
answer, "field research:'
That research has led her to launch
Monty's Beef Company, a business
that supplies premium Piedmontese
beef to stores, restaurants and health-
conscious meat lovers. The enterprise
made its debut at last year's Arts
Beats & Eats. On June 1, Monty's Beef
opened a store at 324 E. 4th St., three
blocks east of Main in Royal Oak.
The journey from waitress to busi-
ness owner took some time. Rachel
worked at several restaurants and in
the corporate offices of restaurant
companies, including Morton's and
McCormick & Schmick's. Three years
ago, she and her husband, Jon, envi-
sioned opening a high-end burger bar
and toured the country, tasting burgers
along the way. As they planned their
new venture, they encountered a chal-
lenge.
"I couldn't figure out why the meat
I ordered from a company would taste
differently each time she said.
A search for the answer took them
to Italy, where they learned that cross-
breeding was the cause for the incon-
sistency. By contrast, Piedmontese is
a breed of beef from pure-bred cows
in the Italian Alps. The meat is known
to be naturally lean, tender, low in
fat and cholesterol, but with the rich
flavor of more marbled cuts of beef.
In Italy, Rachel was told there was one
source of high-quality Piedmontese in
Michigan — Jerry Chapman, who had
a 200-acre farm in Eagle, which is 20
miles west of East Lansing.
That posed a problem. "I tried to
visit him, but he wouldn't talk to me:'
Monty's
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