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.
Chef Rachel Reuben, second from right, at the Villa Rufolo—"the Downton Abbey of Ravello," she says—with guests on last May's Amalfi Coast culinary tour.

Visit Italy With a “Chopped” Champ

July 11, 2016

Writer, teacher, chef and "Chopped" champion Rachel Reuben will lead a "girlfriends' getaway" to Italy's dramatic Amalfi Coast in October.

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BBQ, Bourbon & Biergarten at Montclair Art Museum. Photo: Natalie Chitwood

The Place to “B” is BBQ, Bourbon & Biergarten

July 3, 2016

Definitely some killer Bs at the Montclair Art Museum this Saturday, July 9. Eat, drink, dance and be very merry.

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The audience sits on the stage for summer concerts at the renovated Paramount Theater in Asbury Park. Photo: Richard Hoynes

A Unique Shore Take on ‘Dinner and a Show’

June 26, 2016

In Asbury Park, grab a bite from food trucks, then sit onstage--yes, actually on the stage--at the renovated Paramount theater as a top musician plays for you.

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A Kid-Friendly Beer Fest (In a Good Way)

June 20, 2016

For grownups there will be 150 beers to sample. For kids and families, the eighth annual New Jersey Beer & Food Festival will feature a petting zoo, pony rides, games and food.

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Jessica Isbrecht with organic turkeys from her Green Duchess Farm.

Now Add Meat to Your CSA Basket

June 12, 2016

Jessica Isbrecht's Green Duchess Farm offers organic meat, sausage, eggs and turkeys, broadening the scope of Community Supported Agriculture from the usual fruit and produce.

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A cone of purple sticky rice gelato from Bucket & Bay Gelato Co of Jersey City. Photo: Juan Roque

Gelato With Splendor in the Grass

June 5, 2016

Organic Milk from grass-fed cows makes the gelato from Jersey City's Bucket & Bay super creamy.

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Guest enjoying hors oeuvres at a 2015 dinner at the Ulrich showroom.

It’s a Showroom. It’s a Party Room, It’s For Charity!

May 30, 2016

Ulrich, the Ridgewood custom kitchen company, invites you to bid on a dinner for 10, cooked by a professional chef, with wine served, in its posh showroom, all proceeds going to charity.

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Beer authority John Holl at Sierra Nevada Brewery.

A Better Food State Than NJ? ‘No Way!’

May 22, 2016

Beer authority, cookbook author and journalist John Holl comes to the Bernards Inn in Bernardsville to back up his claim that other states can line up behind the Garden State when it comes to food and brews.

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Chef Jamie Oliver's worldwide campaign comes to Jersey for the fifth annual event at Fosterfields Historical Farm.

Chef Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution Day” Comes to NJ

May 16, 2016

Fosterfields Historical Farm hosts the Fifth Annual event championing the British chef's worldwide campaign to improve everyone's nutrition--children's, especially.

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Hidden Jersey: Museum Guide

May 11, 2016

Immerse yourself in NJ’s cultural, social and industrial heritage by paying a visit to these enlightening museums.

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