NOVEMBER 26 • 2020 | 45

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time-honored family 
name and reputation 
that has always meant 
only the best of service to so 
many communities is celebrat-
ing the 18th anniversary of a 
strong presence in the mainte-
nance of good health.
Father and son, 
Herb and Tedd 
Handelsman are 
the wonderful 
“help everyone” 
brains behind 
the Better Health 
Market & Café 
operations that 
are drawing unlimited amounts 
of accolades … Another son, 
Jon, makes up the family mana-
gerial presentation.
From the original 1999 
store that opened in Walled 

Lake, Better Health Market & 
Café operations now includes 
14 locations, mainly in 
Metropolitan Detroit … Three 
main ones on the northwest 
are the flagship on Grand 
River between Novi Road and 
Meadowbrook, Novi … W
. 
13 Mile at Southfield Road, 
Beverly Hills, and Telegraph, 
between Square Lake Road and 
Orchard Lake Road, Bloomfield 
Hills. 
A breathtaking visit to the 
flagship store in Novi revealed 
the presence of more than 
10,000 items from fresh health 
food selections and carry-out of 
fresh salads and untold amounts 
of fresh soups and delicious 
gluten-free, sugar-free, wheat-
free items, etc., along with 
carefully selected bottles of vita-
mins, supplements, and other 
award-winning good health 
assistants … Building your own 
sandwich, tuna wrap, turkey and 
brie, chicken salad wrap, healthy 
health bar, etc.
Health food fraud has been 
prevalent for hundreds of years 
in the preying of people from 

false promises of helping los-
ing weight to “
curing” health 
conditions … It is so good to 
have a wonderful name for one 
like Handelsman to depend on 
… The U.S. Food and Drug 
Administration is a careful 
watchdog of health scamming 
but can do only so much in 
its policing of these dangerous 
scams … This is a reason why 
a good operation like Better 
Health Market & Café is so 
important. 
It is notable, too, that Better 
Health has as its executive chef 
someone with vast experience 
… Jozef McDiarmid recently 
headed the kitchen at Novi 
Chophouse after being executive 
chef six years at Nino Salvaggio 
in Troy and before that as sous 
chef at Papa Joe’
s.
Jozef’
s bestsellers at BH for 
carry-out are the various styles 
of salmon, the natural rotisserie 
chickens, tuna salad, kale qui-
noa salad, fresh chicken salads, 
etc. … Also, many healthy 
dishes not available anywhere 
other than at Better Health … 
An orange miso-glazed salmon 

goes over big, plus numerous 
bakery items and other fresh 
selections … Also dishes made 
upon request … His Norwegian 
Salmon Roulade stuffed with 
spinach and feta cheese is a 
standout.
The Better Health Food 
Market and Café stores are open 
Monday through Saturday, 8 
a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. 
to 8 p.m.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE … 
Waiter to customer, “We have 
everything on the menu today, 
sir.
” The customer exclaims, “So 
I notice. Now give me a clean 
one.
”
 CONGRATS … To Louise 
Abrams on her birthday … To 
Mort Plotnick on his birthday 
… To Bruce Milen on his birth-
day … To Neil Rubin on his 
birthday … To Arthur and Gina 
Horwitz on their anniversary … 
(Errata, congrats are to Susan 
Sitron, not Citron, on her 60th 
birthday.) 

Danny’s email address is 
dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.

RASKIN
THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

Danny Raskin
Senior Columnist

Better Health Market & 
Café helps keep Metro 
Detroiters healthy.

L
’Chaim

Herb Handelsman 

and son Tedd 

Handelsman

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