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Source: Detroit Free PressSept.迷你倉出租 07--Riad Shatila, the founder and owner of the one of the most noted Arab sweet shops in the U.S., died Friday after battling cancer for years. The Dearborn man was 68.Shatila's store on Warren Avenue in Dearborn, Shatila Bakery & Cafe, is popular with Arab-Americans across the region; the store also has a mail order business that distributes Shatila's pastries around the world. Shatila started with handmade pastries, which he initially sold by calling random people in the phone book who had Arabic-looking names.Shatila Bakery's success was a symbol of the growth of Arab-American businesses in east Dearborn over the past 30 years, transforming the area into a thriving commercial district."Shatila's progress is the progress of the whole community, " Nasser Beydoun, former head of the Dearborn-based American Arab Chamber of Commerce, told the Free Press in a 2004 profile of Shatila. "He started with a small little store, grew and grew, and became more mainstream and affluent."Born and raised in Lebanon, Shatila moved to the U.S. in 1976, escaping a country on the verge civil war. He initially didn't have any experience baking. But he saw that there wasn't a decent place in Michigan to get well-made sweets from the Middle East.So he started to bake baklava at home, using fresh ingredients such as clarified butter.迷你倉He would mail samples of his pastries to Arab-Americans, who in turn spread the word about his sweets.In 1979, he opened a tiny bakery in the eastern section of Warren Ave. He worked long hours, often sleeping in his office as his pastries baked.In 1984, he moved into a bigger place on Schaefer Rd., just south of Warren. It was so popular that during Muslim and Christian holidays, customers often had to wait in line outside the store to order their treats.He closed that store to open a bigger one in 2004 along Warren Ave., the main commercial strip in northeast Dearborn. With its high ceilings, the store is often packed at night on the weekends as customers come in to satisfy their sweet tooth. In addition to his pastries, Shatila developed his own line of ice cream, with unique flavors such as rose water."He's a perfectionist, " his sister, Amal Shatila-Houtait, told the Free Press in 2004. "He'll make something, taste it, and throw it away, do it again, and throw it away, until it's done right."After developing cancer, Shatila found it difficult at times to talk over the past decade, said family members.The funeral is 11 a.m. today at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, followed by a 1 p.m. burial.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Detroit Free Press Visit the Detroit Free Press at .freep.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存倉