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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Birk O’Halloran has written the book on the love affair between chefs and their tattoos. It's called "Eat.Ink," and he will sign copies of it this month at the three Cool Vines wine shops....
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When the sun sets next Monday, Jews will sit down to seders, usually in a family member's home. If you're not up for all the work of preparing, serving and cleaning up after the Passover meal, here's good news—you have some intriguing options....
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Gained a few pounds this winter? Need a spring tune-up? Jocelyn Krasner’s Spring Detox workshop aims to refresh and revitalize you....
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The 6th annual New Jersey Wine & Food Festival kicks off this Friday, March 28th, with guests sipping bubbly with Guest of Honor David Bouley. Then a wonderful weekend unfurls, with proceeds benefiting the James Beard Foundation....
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No one was more surprised than Tori Sickles of Sickles Market in Little Silver to be named one of 15 U.S. food entrepreneurs under 35 “making waves” in the industry....
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Rick Bayless, Melissa Clark, Honathan Waxman and Nancy Silverton are just a few of the cooks you can learn by watching in videos from David Ellner's Summit-based video magazine, Panna....
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I'm talking Mardi Gras, the festival of indulgence that precedes the 40 days of Lent. In Loo-zee-anna, they've been kicking out the jambs on Mardi Gras (literally, Fat Tuesday) since the 1700s. But you can join the flamboyant revelry right in New Brunswick....
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OK, a little poetic license there. But Sandy did knock South River's Two Chicks With Chocolate into a place definitely not Little Eden. Now they're back, their fireworks hailing Valentine's Day......
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Nicholas and Lorena's are no surprise, but Coltello in Crosswicks and the Franklinville Inn—little known outside their neighborhoods—are. The fifth is Cafe Matisse in Rutherford, now in its 26th year....
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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....
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With ShopRite of Greater Morristown, the supermarket chain debuts its entry into the luxe, life-is-good, stay-awhile, shopping-as-lifestyle sweepstakes....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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......
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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