Snow everywhere in Jersey. Nonetheless, you can celebrate the Super Bowl on the beach in Sea Bright. In Driftwood Cabana Club's rebuilt, enclosed, all-weather tiki bar, "You kind of feel like you are on a cruise ship," says beverage director Beau Keegan, "because all you see is water.”...
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Laura Theodore calls herself the Jazzy Vegetarian because she is an expert vegan and vegetarian cook and a jazz singer. In fact, she composes the music for her series on Public TV’s Create channel, now in its fourth season....
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No-Fuss Lunch, a program in Bergen County that feeds up to 1600 schoolkids a day, started in 2012, when Gabriella Wilday noticed that her daughter was coming home from first grade cranky and tired—not the child's usual mood....
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With the introduction of Rutgers Scarlet Lettuce, the university’s Scarlet Knight mascot and sports teams have company. The new red leaf lettuce has twice the antioxidants and polyphenols of blueberries and cranberries, without the sugar....
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Laura Zinn Fromm is an award-winning journalist whose new book, Sweet Survival: Tales of Cooking and Coping, shows how food can be a lifeline amidst craziness. The Short Hills resident is about to make two New Jersey appearances....
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That's the gyst of Joe Iurato's Wine 101 at River Palm Terrace. “It’s one thing to taste a bunch of wines," says Iurato, wine director of the venerable steakhouse, "but here you will learn why and how wine goes so well with food.”...
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Although the first snow has fallen, many New Jersey farmers are still harvesting and selling their produce and products at local farmers' markets that run year-round....
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No need to fry your brains to whip up a piquant present for the discriminating eater on your list. Jersey has the answers....
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This Friday, December 5th, the Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Morris Township will open its 23rd annual Gingerbread Wonderland. More than 15,000 people are expected to visit the display of roughly 200 edible fantasies made of gingerbread, candy canes, gumdrops and frosting....
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Open the fridge the day after Thanksgiving, and there’s Big Bird, or its remains, staring at you. Excellent options go way beyond turkey sandwiches....
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Are side dishes the Rodney Dangerfields of the dinner table? Not according to Maplewood's Rick Rodgers, who gives them plenty of respect in his latest cookbook, The Big Book of Sides, out just in time for Thanksgiving, the holiday that is like a debutante ball for side dishes....
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On Sunday, November 16th, the Peacock Inn in Princeton will celebrate the brief life of one of the youngest members of its extended family: four-year-old Eli Waller, who in September went to bed seemingly healthy and died in his sleep from enterovirus D68....
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Now that Jersey City is recognized as one of the hippest dining destinations in the state, it's worth noting that only 14 years ago it was a culinary desert. The chef and restaurant where change for the better began? Ian Kapitan at Marco & Pepe. Now we have one last chance to taste his food before he flies back to his native Canada....
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At the newly-opened Jockey Hollow Bar & Kitchen in Morristown, I was handed a cocktail called a Cannon Ball Shrub, named for the restaurant's spirited owner, Chris Cannon. Made with gin, the drink had pungency, fruity sweetness and a tingle from a splash of sparkling wine....
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After joining forces to create Jersey Girls Food Tours of Jersey City, Alessia Aron and Janis Borroto have now created a major tasting event to show off the city's food boom....
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Wine pairings, beer pairings, what else is new? Make way for the new wave—tea pairings. Think I'm kidding? Two top chefs--Thomas Ciszak of Chakra in Paramus and Todd Villani of Terre a Terre in Carlstadt--are taking the idea very seriously....
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Admit it. You think lima beans are dull. Bet you didn't know they can shine in crème brulees, crepes, hummus, empanadas, cookies, cakes and even ice cream. Skeptical? This Saturday's 29th annual West Cape May Lima Bean Festival just might win you over....
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Woody Allen, in his stand-up comedy days, used to joke, "My parents believed equally in God and carpeting." Laura Silver's parents also had strong values. “Knishes were my family’s religion," she says. "For knishes, we went on pilgrimages." Now she's coming to Paramus to talk about her favorite subject....
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South Jersey’s Bellview Winery in Landisville, just outside Vineland, is one of the first (and possibly the first) of the state’s 43 wineries to offer convenient and environmentally conscious ‘growlers’ of wine to customers at the winery....
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Used to be parents learned the sex of their child when the bundle of joy was born. Then ultrasounds and more recently blood tests determine the gender early in the pregnancy. Now more and more moms-to-be are asking for the test results to be handed them in a sealed envelope, which they in turn hand, unopened, to a bakery.. Next stop: The gender-reveal cake and party....
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