The 50,000-Mile Diet

I'm in Kauai now, on my honeymoon. I am looking over the Pacific Ocean at sunrise (note: husband asleep in bed). Really. Whales are swimming past. It's all that and a bag of taro chips.

First Annual Top 10 (Entertaining)

I've made it! I've been a Montclair resident for exactly one year. This holiday season, instead of schlepping back to Brooklyn to celebrate, I had the good fortune to be invited to holiday get-togethers right here in Jersey. I came, I saw, I ate a lot, and I learned how to throw a holiday party in the 'burbs. And so I offer you:

And the Secret Ingredient is...Egg Nog!

I never know where I’m going to find delicious Jersey-made foods. Last week, for example, my Manhattan-based chiropractor turned me on to Linden-based Baker's Bounty, a bakery I'll be supporting enthusiastically for years to come.

Five Gifts From the Kitchen

The first year I worked for Martha Stewart, I got to play Martha's “Kris Kringle.” She asked the kitchen team to bake a sophisticated bread pudding into a gorgeous ceramic bowl that she had purchased from an artisan in Maine. I know, it's so Martha. But it's also apparently so Jersey, since Martha started baking holiday fruitcakes with her mother in their Nutley kitchen when she was just a wee sous chef.

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