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Memories

Culinary Combo continues as mother-daughter 
duo open bakery in Southfi
 eld.

STACY GITTLEMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

M

other-and-daughter 
duo Jodie Polk, 56, of 
Commerce Township 
and Jessica Barris, 26, of Berkeley 
hope you’
ll stop into their new 
bakery for something sweet as the 
family that founded the online 
baking company Culinary Combo 
is set to open their first brick-and-
mortar bakery in early 2020. 
Its new home will be within the 
Claymoor Apartments near the 
corner of Northwestern Highway 
and Franklin Road in Southfield. 
This new venture in part is 
in tribute to their husband and 
father, Jim Polk, a longtime pastry 
and executive chef, most recently 
executive chef at the Clawson 
Steak House. Jim died of pancre-
atic cancer at age 53 in September 
2018. 
After Jim died, Jodie she said 
she did not know what she was 
going to do. But some support 
from friends and family in the 
real estate business is helping her 
dream come true and helping her 
cope with the grief. Polk said her 
late husband’
s presence will be 
felt in the bakery. Her friends and 
regular customers of the longtime 
online venture Culinary Combo 
Jodie Polk and her daughter Jessica Barris will be opening their bakery, Culinary Combo, 
at the Claymoor Apartments in early 2020. 

PHOTOS BY JESSICA BARRIS

Sweet

Nosh

