Assembly Required
Yes, assembly is required. But that’s all there is – no cooking! – to preparing a kinda fancy duck-centered salad that’s put together with ingredients scored during a quick trip to an Asian market.
Palisades Park
Long a mecca for Korean eateries, this borough's downtown is now home as well to storefronts that showcase a broad spectrum of Asian fare. Time to explore.
Roti Plus
Trinidad takes its rightful place as the inspiration for fare that concurrently thrills and comforts at a family-run strip mall storefront. A few dishes into a meal also may have you wondering if there’s a new breadstuffs sheriff in town.
Of Plants and Projects
Sprouting seedlings are a call to the garden every spring. TPW’s backyard farmer Alessia Eramo explains how she uses winter to prepare for this moment and why she’s expanding her growing ’scape. Be educated and inspired.
Kiko’s Peruvian Kitchen
All is homey and bright at a new cubby-size spot that brings an underrepresented cuisine and its riveting eats to a restaurant-rich town.
The Innocents: 04.10.23
Who’d think spare ribs, fried mushrooms, a slice of fish, a tangle of greens or a bowl of soup could emerge complex and alluring? It’s what a consummate culinary pro does to each that commands attention anew.
Sausage Király
Hungarian sausage-maker Jozsef Hirs crafts noble versions of the classics right here in the Garden State. Catch him when and where you can at farmers’ markets, festivals and by ordering online.
Rabes to the Rescue
Bridging the traditional leanest-season produce gap are lesser-known but decidedly not less-flavorful greens: kale rabe, spring rabe and arugula rabe.
Cultivate
Dishes that cut to the chase of plant-based eating and reveal unassailable splendors is what this revelation in Union County is about. For many, it will be an unforgettable introduction to a chef who nails, and hails, vegan cookery.
Jen Carson, LiLLiPiES
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 Jen Carson, whose destination in Princeton lures and lassos lovers of much more than the little pies that started it all.
The Spot
Times are a-changing at this day café with a casual, globe-trotting menu. But chances are you still will be able to find that dish that brings you back.
Hand-Held Salad, Vietnamese-style
Get wrapping, with a no-fork salad that makes splendid use of vegetable odd-and-ends already in your fridge – or what will be coming in, with spring’s new crop of Garden State produce. TPW’s resident food-upcycling wiz has a plan that is party-ready.