Author: Suzanne Zimmer Lowery
Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Shorefoodie Telling Us Where to Eat!
June 29, 2014
If you're on almost any Shore beach this summer, you're likely to look up and see a plane dragging a banner. Nothing unusual about that. But this banner reads: SHORE FOODIE
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The Changes Behind Two New Names
June 23, 2014
Without changing owners, two of North Jersey’s longest-lived restaurants--Andre's in Newton and Tim Schaefer's Cuisine in Morristown--have recently renamed themselves to signal changes that are more than skin deep.
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Rock, Ribs and Ridges
June 16, 2014
At the 5th Annual Rock, Ribs and Ridges Festival, George Thorogood and The Destroyers will celebrate being “Bad to the Bone,” but the meat on the grill will all be good to the bone.
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Plum or Pizza?: A Colledge Education
June 2, 2014
Plum on Park in Montclair is so small it's a "street-car diner," says its owner, Natalie Colledge. But what's remarkable isn't just its pint size or even its recent addition of dinner service, but the tale of love and loss that brought it into being.
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Have You Spiralized Yet?
May 27, 2014
It's not the latest exercise trend. It's a way of cutting just about any vegetable into twirling pasta-like threads. If Ali Maffucci of Jersey City has her way, spiralizers will be as common in kitchens as colanders.
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Jambalaya Jam Session
May 18, 2014
For his 25th annual Crawfish Fest, Michael Arnone will bring not only New Orleans music and food, but also his new do-it-yourself Jambalaya Mix so revelers can cook Cajun at home.
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Guilt- and Gluten-Free Carbs and Sweets
May 12, 2014
ThinSlim Foods, made in Ringoes, use a proprietary formula to create brownies, cookies, breads and pizzas without gluten or sugar. The natural sweetener, erythritol, does not spike blood sugar levels or promote tooth decay.
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Halfway Between Habanero and Jalapeño
May 5, 2014
That would be the piri-piri pepper, basis of Mazi Piri-Piri Hot Sauce, created in Bradley Beach in 2001 and now pumping out about 10,000 bottles a year.
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Dining Outdoors: ‘Tis the Season!
April 28, 2014
The Italians call it dining al fresco, the French dining en plein air. Whatever you call it, the season is here, and we've got places where you can count the stars...in the sky and in the kitchen.
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Making “Food Deserts” Bloom
April 18, 2014
On Saturday, May 10, the award-winning, Pittstown-based non-profit America’s Grow a Row will hold a farm-to-fork fundraiser at Life Camp in Pottersville. “One million people in New Jersey are food insecure," says Grow a Row founder and president Chip Paillex. "They don’t know where their next meal is coming from.”
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