by Dory Fox, University of Michigan PhD Candidate, 2017 One weekend a few years ago in Brookline, Mass., the farmer, filmmaker, and food-trucker, Talia Glass and her husband were getting ready to go for a hike and wanted to buy foods for a picnic lunch. They were thinking of stopping someplace where they could buy […]

Everyone asks us this question. The short answer is, we made it up. The long answer goes like this: When we first started talking about opening the business back in fall of ’81 we wanted a name that would convey the sense of a good local deli something that would sound “Jewish,” and offer anyone who heard […]

Heather Kendrick is a Deli alum—and she’s also Miss Michigan 2017! The former Deli employee of five years was crowned on June 17 and is on her way to compete for the title of Miss America later this summer. She was kind enough to share some Deli memories, her road to becoming Miss Michigan, what […]