Comeback Farm Asian Pears
The most intoxicating little tree fruits come in dazzlingly mottled packages. Maybe not the popular view of beauty, but definitely the good food lover’s ideal.
One Sweet Potato, Two Dozen Ideas
One of the most versatile vegetables on earth is being harvested on Garden State farms right now. Time to stock up – and stockpile ideas for giving it a star turn on your dinner table.
Tipping Points
In the matter of “to tip or not to tip” and, most often, how much is just, more information is needed for decisions to be made. It’s time to ask questions – and to get answers.
Pawpaw: Personal Pudding
Some use this large tree fruit in baking, but its growing number of fans know it’s best straight from the “cup” Mother Nature wraps it in, a kind of custard that needs no accoutrements to adore.
Seed to Sprout
Modern-day plant-based fare that’s not afraid to go bold is the order of the day at this congenial eatery in one of the Shore’s quieter boroughs, a place possessing a quiet charm that’s quite the complement to the jazzy, look-lively savories prepared by conscientious co-chefs.
Smoke, without Mirrors
Three of five favorites this go-round use various notes of smoky flavors to their advantage. You’ll catch those notes more with taste than sniff, no games being played. Then there’s a fine fry and a statement in ice cream, no gaming, either.
Smoked Whitefish Salad Spread
The end justifies the wee bit of effort to make from scratch a salad that tastes infinitely better than the prepared version. Work those extra minutes into your schedule and exult in the result.
Drew Araneo, Drew’s Bayshore Bistro
The newest inductee into TPW’s chef-picks-chef society of top toques might be Jersey all the way, but the food at his destination in Keyport speaks with a decided N’Awlins accent. The very personal ways this local hero reinterprets Southern classics with Garden State ingredients have been drawing diners for almost two decades.
Grazie Bistro
A seasoned chef looking to tilt Italian in the direction of modern has taken over the former Fedora Café space in the village of Lawrenceville, a charmer of a commercial center whose Main Street is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Game Day Take-away
Call this Mid-week Quarterbacking: Up your game-watching eats into next-level nutritional value by faking out your mates with a spread that allows everyone to pass right by the antacid aisle.
Fancy Fish
"Fry" is the method done right at this storefront deep in the heart of Havana on the Hudson that’s all and only about fishes. Long may it reign, absolutely unchanged. P.S. It’s one in a family of five siblings.
Fresh, Young Ginger, for Gari
Youth isn’t wasted on this rhizome that’s juicier and livelier in its smoother-faced prime. As the cognoscenti know, now is the time to kick into ginger-pickling production.