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Quirky tale #2:
Sculpting faces in raw meat
Where horsemeat once was peddled in the Pike Place Market — during wartime rationing in the 1940s — now stands Mr. D’s Greek Delicacies, a take-away restaurant serving customers for more than four decades. Along with classic Hellenic fare, owner Demetrios Moraitis, 89, creates art in the bizarre medium of gyro meat. Over the years, Mr. D. has carved lamb busts of notables — from Market savior Victor Steinbrueck and Zorba the Greek to Barack Obama and the 2016 matchup of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
NOW2: Mr. D. (left) stands in front of his eponymous restaurant with Peter Steinbrueck, former Seattle City Council member and Port of Seattle commissioner. At right behind the counter, a server slices gyro meat from its vertical skewer.