Cinnamon Dreams
Keep your pantry stocked with this indispensable spice and use it with purposeful abandon.
Raw Material
Got milk on the market in the Garden State? Then it’s pasteurized; can’t buy it straight. Why? Kelly-Jane Cotter explores many sides of an issue that has spawned a hodgepodge of laws nationwide and a percolating movement to change them here.
Brasserie Memere
This is where you’ll want to be one night this holiday season, with your nearest and dearest – those who value conviviality with a touch of luxe.
The Homer Sandwich
It’s worth any odyssey to partake of the signature breakfast sandwich at the Califon General Store. Trust Kate Munning, who makes sure her morning jog finds its just reward.
Barbara Nieuwdorp, To The Moon and Back Cupcakery
In the latest installment of TPW’s monthly column featuring Martha Rabello talking shop with a fellow practitioner of the pastry and baking arts, she visits with Barbara Nieuwdorp. Her To The Moon and Back Cupcakery offers evidence that this licensed home-baker has a serious thing for caramel.
Mugsy’s Mercantile
Zero for nine? Not a great batting average at a newcomer in a Shore hub where there is definite demand for the kind of food its experienced chef ought to know how to deliver.
Favorites, Amped
You eat something anticipating happiness and love and the exhilaration that comes from experiencing the meeting of humans and nature in the kitchen. When expectations are exceeded, bliss-eating occurs.
Sides Take Center Stage
Curtains up! Time to let a cauliflower-romanesco-pickled grape stew and wild rice studded with pickled cranberries take a bow.
Jarring Experiences
Minimal effort brings maximum appeal and top-notch eating when fun fare comes wrapped to please. Ella sees making edible gifts to present in glass jars as a most fulfilling task.
A Tough Nut to Crack
Pine Barrens homesteader and LOTF columnist Lauren Vitagliano loves a challenge in the kitchen. So when she decided to ring in the holiday season by tackling a 26-pound harvest of chestnuts from a nearby farm, she figured marron glacés would be très magnifique. Read on to learn what happened.
Milford House
A seafood-centric roadhouse at the edge of a river town in Hunterdon County is where locals and daytrippers find comforting foods and hat-tips to a local farm.
Pot Yuck
The potluck is a presumably democratic, decidedly popular way to entertain. It surfaces widely twice a year: in summer and right now, during the holiday season. TPW’s founder/editor explains why she hates potlucks and what needs to be done to save ourselves, and our stomachs, from their ill effects.