Show off your best pilsners, ales, stouts and lagers at the 3rd Annual Jersey City Homebrew Competition. Beer aficionados, this is your chance to taste—and judge!...
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How's this for a foodie fantasy? At the head of your table, an eminent chef—such as Anthony Bucco (Ryland Inn), John Benjamin (Restaurant Latour), James Laird (Serenade), Ariane Duarte (CulinAriane) and Corey Heyer (Bernards Inn), among others—cooks just for you and your guests. And proceeds from the evening benefit the Community Food Bank of New Jersey....
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Five years ago, Ivan Ruiz counted 22 empty storefronts—a record in his experience—as he walked downtown Summit. Inspiration struck. He decided to create a wine and food festival "to bring more people into town."...
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Ina Garten, Joe Bastianich and Ann Burrell will gather under the blue-sky dome of the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank for Appetite: A Gastronomic Experience this weekend. Plus Jersey's own Carton craft brewer, its new JAD distiller, Rook artisan coffee roaster, Sugarush cupcake baker and 40 North oyster farm....
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When Hurricane Sandy wiped out their Sea Bright luncheonette last fall, Joanne and Steve Garelli wanted to rebuild, but couldn't get a loan. Little did they know Joanne would soon be heading for Beverly Hills and a rendezvous with the Food Network's Tyler Florence for a chance to win $50,000 and a fully outfitted food truck....
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When Francesco Palmieri, chef/owner of the Orange Squirrel in Bloomfield, stepped onto the set of the Food Network’s latest competition, his finely-honed knives were replaced with plastic takeout utensils and he was told to make creamed broccoli without using broccoli. He says he knew he was in for “a high stress-level situation.”...
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An Irish pub serving pizza--at an outdoor Tiki bar, no less. It may sound like the opening of a joke, but this week the super popular Egan & Sons will fire up its new pizza oven at its West Orange location, joining the one at its Montclair flagship....
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And the Blue Ribbon goes to...” These coveted words will boom from loudspeakers at the annual New Jersey State Fair, August 2-11, not just for livestock but for all kinds of baked and canned goods you can buy--or enter in the competition....
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Legend has it there are 18 holes in golf because there are 18 shots in a fifth of Scotch. On Wednesday July 24th, Ballyowen Golf Course at Crystal Springs Resort in Hamburg will test this theory....
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In Italian, “a mano” means “by hand,” and on Thursday, July 18th, at A Mano, a Neapolitan trattoria and pizzeria in Ridgewood, you can get your own hands on some fresh dough and learn how to roll out, cut and turn it into a number of delectable pasta dishes....
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Ten years ago, Stanley Rak of Whitehouse Station was feeling uneasy watching his little grandchild's mouth and fingers turn bright orange from eating a popular, crunchy, neon-colored snack. When the boy turned cranky and agitated within minutes of consuming the treat, Rak had an epiphany....
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When Eat!Drink!Italy! premieres on public TV July 6th, Rumson’s own Vic Rallo will be seen on the border of Germany and Italy, touring one of Mussolini’s secret World War II underground bunkers, now home to aging wheels of artisanal Pecorino, Fontina and Gorgonzola. ...
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When you grab a head of romaine or packet of herbs at the supermarket, “it could’ve taken five to seven days” to go from the field to the store, says Paul Kneeland, VP of Produce and Floral for the 23 Kings Supermarkets in New Jersey. Kneeland wanted to better that—and has, by a lot, with “Local Fresh 24/7."...
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Stand-up comedienne Esther Paik Goodhart of Demarest points to a grocery shelf stacked with Spam, calling it “the canned meat of our people.” Daughter of a Korean-American minister, Goodhart converted to Judaism and now teaches Hebrew school. Her schtick can't help but raise the question, Which people?...
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When Johnny McLaughlin was selling supplies to tattoo parlors (he sports “a significant amount” of ink himself), or eking out a living as a visual artist, he never imagined he would win the inaugural episode of CNBC’s new Crowd Rules....
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Chef Patrick Yves Pierre-Jerome's food has been hailed almost everywhere he has cooked in his 30-year career. Yet he has endured too many days like the following: Arriving for work one day and discovering that the restaurant doors have been bolted shut. ...
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What started as a one-time party thrown by a Good Ole Southern boy who was homesick and spice-deprived, has turned into a Jersey exclusive paying homage to the saucy rhythms and spicy flavors of the bayou....
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Melody Kettle, who lives in Montclair, has something in common with Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse, Mario Batali, Chez Panisse, the French Laundry and even Georges Auguste Escoffier, "the king of chefs and the chef of kings." Each has been inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame....
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Bavaria's fall festival gets all the ink, but Maifest rocks, too, with better weather! And you can enjoy it here in the Grden State....
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Jeff Feldstein's career in marketing helped him spread the word when he launched Down to the Bone BBQ last spring. Still, it took old-fashioned shoe leather to get his bottled sauces into stores....
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