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Long lines and boisterous activity rarely let up at Zingerman's Deli in Ann Arbor.
L
$$$
The Burnt Toast Inn,
415 W.
William St. (
&
734/662-6685;
www.burnt
toastinn.com). $$
Library Bed and
Breakfast,
808 Mary St. (
&
734/668-
6815
).
422 Detroit St. (
&
734/663-DELI;
www.zingermansdeli.com).
(
Detroit Metropolitan International (20
miles/32km).
Gourmet Emporiums &
Specialty Shops
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Salumi
Finding the Cure
Seattle, Washington
It would make a much better story if celeb-
rity chef Mario Batali had become a great
restaurateur because he grew up helping
mind the store at his father's old-fashioned
salumeria. In fact, this unprepossessing
beige-tiled storefront in Seattle's historic
Pioneer Square district didn't open until
Mario had already left home, when his
father, Armandino, decided to retire from
Boeing Aircraft and devote himself to the
food traditions of his Italian forebears
(Armandino's grandfather, it's true, oper-
ated Seattle's first Italian grocery over a
century ago).
But the Batali obsessiveness is appar-
ently a genetic trait. Though he'd cooked
