Phillips Farms Market
A diverse-crop farm in Holland Township feeds a year-round market where everything locally grown and locally made reigns. BONUS: Dining and antiques/décor must-stops nearby.
Smart Shop
The Greek Store
Prepared foods, pantry items, store-baked pastries and olives, olives, olives: Bring sunny Mediterranean flavors from this must-stop in Kenilworth to your table, and ring in the long holiday season ahead.
Fortnightly 5
Quintessential Fall: 10-25-21
Much ado about autumn, much so fitting for this refreshing time of year.
Ahead of the Carve
Home-baked pumpkin cookies set off a wave of inspiration - and heartfelt admiration for a young pastry chef.
Mex’d Messages
If you’re promoting yourself as authentic Mexican, be authentic. If you’re looking to Americanize Mexican, or amalgamate Mex/Tex-Mex/Cali-Mex, call your food something else. Just don’t malign a stand-up sensational cuisine.
What's Brewing?
The Great Pumpkin Beers
Costumed in accents that rev up flavor, these stouts and ales are in tune with the season and its supreme squash.
Leeks, Reprised
Heed your oven when it begs the chance to employ a little alchemy and turn this elongated allium into a confit.
Let Us Eat Home Bakes
As activists, the people behind the Great Garden State Home Baking movement focused on potential economic opportunities. As bakers and consumers, their big win this week has them pumped for the creative possibilities.
The Salad We Need
Garden State farmers and chefs, this one’s for you. And lovers of mesclun? Hop on board and join the charge for a mix of greens we can make our own.
Chef Train
Chris Voigtsberger of Acacia
Honest food, prepared without frills, is the mantra at this destination in Lawrenceville. But, then again, it might not be as simple as it all looks.
The Cider House That Rules
Melick’s is the king of apples in the Garden State. So it follows that when the family whose farm dates back to 1728 decided to make hard cider, they’d bring home not one but two “Double Gold” medals from a prestigious competition.
Pastry Lu Bakery
Tres leches cakes in a cup, a croissant-bun cross gone Cubano, and a gigantic cookie tribute to Cap’n Crunch: It’s all happening at this new dessert bistro in downtown Metuchen.
Blue Jingler Farm
Find the best-ever chili-Cheddar hot dogs – and more – at this fifth-generation family farm along Hunterdon County’s 579 Trail.