Kosher Donuts?

If you are ever "passing through" Lyndhurst, Cleveland OH and need a donut..... Cleveland: You don't have to be Jewish to keep kosher. Just ask Joe Coste, who owns Amy Joy Donuts. A group of Orthodox Jews in the Mayfield and Richmond roads neighborhood approached Coste this year. They wondered if Coste, a Catholic with Italian roots, would be interested in converting the doughnut shop at 5076 Mayfield Road in Lyndhurst - a place he has run for the past 37 years - into a kosher operation. Coste talked with his son, Tom, about the change. They decided to create Northeast Ohio's first kosher doughnut shop. The shop also sells kosher coffee and espresso. It soon will carry kosher bagels and ice cream. "The best thing was, we didn't have to change any of our ingredients," said Coste. "It turns out they were all kosher." "It is amazing, the immediate acceptance of the Jewish community. They've been wonderful," said Coste. The location, he said, has shown an immediate and dramatic increase in sales since it went kosher Feb. 3. "People come in and say, 'This is wonderful. We can finally eat things other people are eating,' " Coste said. "I think this is a wonderful addition for the Jewish community," said Rabbi Naphtali Burnstein, of Young Israel of Greater Cleveland, who oversaw the process of transforming the doughnut shop into a kosher operation. .."We are looking for a good kosher deli where they can get lunch to go," said Coste.