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…■ all's fare Uptown Toast! The great Fernkle breakfast place opens a fancier sidekick in Birmingham. BY ANNABEL COHEN PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGIE 13AAN .** •- st, 4 * „ - .4-..4 4; 4 4, .•• • 4,,,t 4' 704 k.,est>1 • Toast's Smoked Duck Pot Pie with mushrooms and biscuit top Toast is my favorite food, so for the past eight years I've frequented the diminutive Ferndale restaurant by the same name for scrumptious and substantial o...…
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…■ platinum plates Adventures In Dining Fill your tummy with comfort-inducing foods and more at Metro Detroit destinations. BY LISA BRODY What's your idea of comfort food? A creamy bowl of macaroni and cheese with a side of potato chips? Stick-to-your-ribs food like meadoaf, rotisserie chicken or short ribs? A simple, juicy steak? Luckily for us, restaurants around town can sat- isfy all of our culinary cravings. The menu at Uptown Grille o...…
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…Splendid Table Fair Radom entertains with dazzling style and dollops of surprises at her Bloomfield Hills home. BY CARLA SCHWARTZ I PHOTOGRAPHY BY GLENN TRIEST Fair Radom readies her Thanksgiving table with purple and green napkins blended and adorned with rosette rings (available at Neiman Marcus, Troy), elegant purple candles and a unique floral-bedecked ice bucket she created to hold a magnum of champagne. Radom is wearing Roberto Coin ...…
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…Chef Bill Apodaca of Simply Good Kitchen in Birmingham demonstrates how to properly saute. Innovative cooking classes by top local chefs can help you lure your clan back to the family dinner table. some cooking, there also are enterprises where you can assemble deli- WRITTEN BY ELAINE PERLIN CROSSLEY cious nutritious meals to take home. Another option: Grab pre-prepared PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGIE BAAN The culinary world is thriving as creati...…
…Continued from page B17 Piquant Lobster Bisque. Catch Somerville's food demos on the Lark's patio or at area farmers markets (in season). 6430 Farmington Road, West Bloomfield; (248) 661-4466, www.thelark.com. For classes, contact Laurie Heilman: (248) 892-6148. Matt Scliellig As owner ofAunt Olive's Good Food 2 Go in Birmingham, Schellig blends a hip attitude with a health-minded edge in his food philosophy. With two Culinary Institute of...…
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…M I University of Michigan ultra fan reveals his personal "M Den." BY JUDITH DONER BERNE I PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANGIE BAAN U-M memorabilia surrounds Ira and Brenda Jaffe in the lower-level "M Den" of their Farmington Hills home. As you enter his Farmington Hills house, the only hint of Ira Jaffe's passion for University of Michigan football is a doorbell that plays "The Victors," a song even run-of-the mill U-M fans choose for their cell-phone r...…
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…Arts & Entertainment A Holocaust Fable Harry Potter producer makes a film about forbidden friendship. Naomi Pfefferman Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. T he Boy in the Striped Pajamas isn't the sort of film one might initially expect from David Heyman — the British producer who bought the rights to the Harry Potter books in 1997 and steered the film fran- chise to become the highest grossing in cinematic history. Harry Potter, of course, i...…
…Arts & Entertainment Coming To Terms With Evil Facing extermination at Auschwitz, a group of prisoners weighs the case against the Almighty. Michael Fox Special to the Jewish News G od's existence and his respon- sibilities to the Chosen People are abstract concepts to some people. For others, faith is a matter of the greatest importance. Both ends of the spectrum have been represented at every dark juncture in his- tory. In our own time,...…
…Come le & Experience Great Service In A Relaxilig Brdirommt Jessica lama Welcomes You! see the prisoners as suffering human beings grappling with God and the Holocaust rather than as cardboard mouthpieces for a range of positions. Part of that urgency derives from a selection process made a few hours before — but not yet carried out — to clear room in the barracks for a group of new arrivals. While death always lurks in Auschwitz, it has crep...…
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…Ann Arbor Book Fair Washtenaw County JCC welcomes readers to 21st annual festival. Ann Arbor effrey Zaslow, Wall Street Journal columnist and co-author of The Last Lecture will be the featured speaker at the Washtenaw County Jewish Community Center's 21st Annual Jewish Book Festival sponsor night on Sunday, Nov. 9. His free talk will be at 7:30 p.m. (A paid sponsor event at 6 p.m. precedes his speech.) The Ann Arbor festival, currently unde...…
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…EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE by Jordan B. Gorfinkel • Calendar from page C11 www.jewishcartoon.com Hear music with a South American flair when the Vivace Music Series presents the Alturas Duo 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Birmingham Temple, 28611 W. 12 Mile, Farmington Hills. Tickets: $18-$21. Ann Sipher: (248) 661- 1348, www.vivaceseries.org . Enjoy pianist David Syme in "Music From the Heartland," a concert of musical master- pieces from the...…
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…On Campus Resource Driven Jewish Resource Center tops programming with Israel trips. Andrew Landau Special to the Jewish News Ann Arbor n Pirkei Avot (Ethics of our Fathers), our sages state: "As the effort, so is the reward!' As the new year is upon us, we all have the chance to decide how we would like grow in the coming year. As a former student of the University of Michigan, I know the difficulties of bal- ancing a hectic schedule wi...…
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