Burlington County Farmers’ Market: Pre-season Edition
Stock right up at the early birds’ version of one of the Garden State’s best farmers’ markets. There’ll be three more after this year’s inaugural foodfest, so let these highlights motivate you to mark your calendar post-haste.
The Floor Show
Traditional front-of-house team members might benefit from learning a few tricks of an updated model of the service trade. The discourse on “The New Counter Culture” continues.
Dried Sardines
By now you’re on board with tinned fish, assigning a prime place in the pantry for those trusty vessels that hold a range of seafood beyond the tuna that’s long been staple and savior. Turns out there are other versions of preserved fishes ready to step into the role of last-minute meal-maker.
Beth and Nick Blatt, Honey Moon Bakery & Pizzeria
In the latest installment of TPW’s periodic pro-to-pro column, Joselin Oudemans talks shop with fellow practitioners of the pastry and baking arts: husband-and-wife team Nick and Beth Blatt, of Honey Moon Bakery & Pizzeria in Frenchtown. It’s where the happily-ever-after has just begun.
Sergeantsville Inn
Another chef who once led a big-name, big-city kitchen has taken charge of the stoves at an iconic restaurant in Hunterdon County. Is the multi-tiered menu serving its mission and community?
The New Counter Culture
If the picture you have in your mind of the quintessential counterperson is the Soup Nazi or the guy at a New York-style deli whose gruffness has a sharper edge than the knife he uses to slice pastrami, snap out of the past and get with a new model in which intimacy, interaction and immediacy of engagement are purposeful and well-planned.
K-Towne Kitchen
A mom-and-pop shop lets well-turned-out staples of Korean street fare such as kim bop, kup bop, wings and ramen share menu space with American standards overplayed everywhere. Time to let the K in the name truly rule.
No Ordinary Loves
A stew, a salad, a burger, a bowl of noodles, a plate of fish – and nothing ordinary about any of these standards. That’s why they’ve risen to the top of the chart in the two weeks of eating just past.
A Stir-fry Story
No flash in any pan, this lickety-split vegetable mix is as durable and dear as the memories of an old friend.
Ode to Oden
The quintessential fish cake/root vegetable stew from Japan whose charms are cherished and allure intensified in cold weather deserves a place on restaurant menus and home tables in the Garden State. Two skilled home cooks explore its fundamentals.
Andre’s Lakeside Dining
Chef Andre deWaal and his wife Tracey pioneered a modern, globally influenced style of fine dining in Sussex County more than a quarter-century ago, gleaning inspiration from the seasons and also from travels that stock their personal pantry of ideas.
Quesa Burger
From the Fat Boyz Kitchen food truck, parked outside Mains Meat Market in Vineland, comes a burger whose innards seem destined to land in your lap. Summon dexterity and defy that destiny. You want to eat this monster, not toss even one particle of it in the wash.