My father once got a smoked goose from a specialty market in Fenton for Christmas dinner. It was in the mid-80s. I was attending Central Michigan University but was home for the semester break.

Naomi Waxman is the former reporter for Eater Chicago and an award-winning journalist who covers restaurants, bars, pop-ups. Manny’s, the legendary Ashkenazi Jewish deli known for sating the hunger of ...