Author: Suzanne Zimmer Lowery

Suzanne Zimmer Lowery is an experienced chef, pastry chef and professional cake decorator. She teaches cooking and baking at Ninety Acres Culinary Center, Classic Thyme, Kings Cooking Studio, the County College of Morris and elsewhere. A graduate of the New School’s New York Restaurant School and Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Communications, Suzanne has been a contributing writer for the Star-Ledger and other regional publications. She's the former author of New Jersey Monthly's Soup to Nuts blog.
Jennifer Iserloh wants to lead us to "an enticing seductress" with the power to "enchant and hold us prisoner." Are we talking handcuffs on the bedpost? No, says Iserloh with a wink, the action she touts in her new book Fifty Shades of Kale takes place in the kitchen.

Seen in: Soup to Nuts

With ShopRite of Greater Morristown, the supermarket chain debuts its entry into the luxe, life-is-good, stay-awhile, shopping-as-lifestyle sweepstakes.

Seen in: Soup to Nuts

Not at the North Pole, but in an Englewood warehouse, not elves, but cooks are hustling literally 24/7 to create great edible gifts. Under one roof (called Le Gourmet Factory), pies, popcorn, baked goods, candy apples and more are pouring forth from seven different commercial kitchens.

Seen in: Soup to Nuts

If you are looking for an intimate, casual, yet chic spot to host your holiday gathering, young entrepreneurs Sam Fertik and Aaron Nemani of Orange and Olive Caterers have just the thing.

Seen in: Soup to Nuts

Making apple and pumpkin pies right now? To meet holiday demand, Rocky’s in Wharton is cranking out hundreds of traditional British meat pies, called pasties. They're experts--the family has been at it for 89 years.

Seen in: Soup to Nuts

Buddy Valastro, the Cake Boss, was not Jersey's original Boss, but these days he's roaring down his own Thunder Road, paved in fondant...

Seen in: Soup to Nuts

Fly Your FREEKEH Flag

October 28, 2013

In 2010, when Barbara I. Fanelli heard TV’s Dr. Oz mention a wonder grain called Freekeh, she hoped it would help her husband, who had been diagnosed with Type II Diabetes and Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. The toasted wheat is low in carbs, super high in fiber, protein and calcium, and had been shown to actually help prevent diabetes.The only problem: she couldn’t find it in the United States.

Seen in: Soup to Nuts

A hearse will be parked outside Orale Mexican Kitchen in Jersey City on Friday, November 1—not as a kind of Halloween hangover, but as part of the celebration of the Latino celebration Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead. Orale will put on a true fiesta of traditional foods, music, costumes and more.

Seen in: Soup to Nuts

In Cru vs. Brew, promises Sharon Sevrens, "Three of the greatest minds in wine and beer will go head to head." Sevrens, founder and owner of Amanti Vino wine store in Montclair, organized the showdown between biodynamic wine advocate Robert Sinskey, Food and Wine 2012 Winemaker of the Year Steve Matthiasson and brewmaster Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery.

Seen in: Soup to Nuts

The most important thing about the the new Red Knot gastropub at the recently transformed Galloping Hill golf complex in Kenilworth is that it provides, as general manager Richard Spaulding puts it, "a private club experience for everyone.” Meaning not just golfers.

Seen in: Soup to Nuts