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S’mores Cake

Pretty much everything at The Artist Baker in Morristown is a Food Find because everything Andrea Lekberg and her crew bring into edible being is over-the-rainbow magnificent. But this? This reimagined classic? It redefines more than a campfire dessert.

Restaurant Revue Jersey City

Harry’s Daughter

Island attitudes pervade a jovial gathering spot for respectful Trinidadian classics that include beloved beach-food “bakes.” Cup your hands to eat, then clap them in response to joyful fare served in compatible style.

Ajvar: Red Pepper’s Muse

In today’s very special Sunday Kitchen column, all-pro baker-chef Zora Levkovski illuminates the powers of the spread that gives red peppers a true star turn.

Tomatoes Terrific

It's high season for the crop that our Garden State is known for and brings our state deserved respect. So, we asked a cadre of culinary pros to tell us: How do you use our Jersey tomatoes, prepare them and/or eat them that best expresses their incomparable taste? Today, it’s answer time.

Nai Brother

Hidden in this incomparable mecca for Asian cuisines is a Chinese sauerkraut soup specialist where proper layering of each broth’s flavors is the charm and the occasional in-house specialty delights.

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Icy Melon

Summer saviors come in many cooling forms, but nothing quite so explicitly inviting as an extreme-chilled version of the fleshy fruit plucked off a trailing vine. It’s one of myriad inviting sweets at a dessert lounge in Edison, with a twin in Hoboken.

Eggholic

The egg dishes have it at this hyper-focused Indian street food spot on the main drag for all things South Asian in a municipality with ever-stronger choices for ethnic eats.

Balancing Act

The craft of bringing just the right touch of complement, contrast or even a bit of moxie to the mild-mannered is the tie that binds the favorites of the two weeks just past.

‘Troubled Corn’

Get happy by using just-picked corn and basils from opposite ends of our Garden State in a pasta dish that shouts hallelujah for the season we’re in. Ed Sherry offers a plan for easy summer cooking.

Nourishing Strides

Drew Lovering's Wild Serenity Walks isn't a mere oxymoronical name play: It's a very knowledgeable, well-educated approach to learning more about Mother Nature's bounty through the guiding eyes of an all-pro forager.

Restaurant Revue Mount Laurel

Bhan Thai

Bigger and better dressed than your average neighborhood joint Thai, this busy standby is ready for parties, tete-a-tetes for twosomes and pack-ups for tailgates. Wing it, for sure, with a side of dumplings of a different stripe.

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Ice Cream Supreme

Callie’s Creamery in Neptune City is one mega-smooth operator in a crowded field, delivering dozens of flavors in super-premium form. Long-timer White Dotte in Southampton is where folks have convened over ice cream for 72 years.


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