Not everyone is sitting on piles and piles of cash because of ghost projects. (Oh, yes, we haven’t forgotten.) Not all of us are nepo babies with corrupt daddies who are happy to be our “ATM machines.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Julian Pancer loves to cook almost as much as he loves to teach people to cook. His family has owned and run a Jewish deli in Ontario, Canada, since 1957. Pancer and his wife, ...