Blue Moon Farm Garlic Powder
A Garden State-grown crop is turned by its farmers in Hunterdon County into a savory, useful and endlessly complementary value-added product – a seasoning for all seasons.
Gorditas de Nata
A Mexican breadstuff proves its mettle – and versatility – in a partnership with a market’s homey queso crema. For starters, that is.
Chocolate Chip Cookie from Benchmark
Consider this an official proclamation: New Jersey’s best Triple-C is made by bread bakers in Little Silver. The search is over.
Ideal Lasagne
At Porta Rossa in Maplewood, the layering of flat noodles, tomato sauce and cheeses reaches its apex thanks to a process that requires a couple of extra steps. It’s time that proves very well spent.
Ohsung Yes! Chips! (Garlic Shrimp)
These crispy little critters of shrimp and garlic plus tapioca flour and seasonings are making noise on our snack scene.
Whitehouse Station Sauce Company
Primo ingredients are the backbone of a line of ready-to-roll sauces that bring personality and no shortage of pizzazz to foods that otherwise might seem plain. They’re Chef John Kasper’s magic potions and they’re ready for stocking-stuffing, host-gift-giving and raising the bar of your personal pantry.
Phillips Farms Multi-Fruit Ciders
At a farm in Holland Township that’s been run by the Phillips family since 1806, ciders ratchet up both the fruit content and the container size to make for sweet and extended quaffing.
Lizano Salsa
A condiment with a smoky-tangy soul that’s indispensable in Costa Rica proves its worth as a spirited accent to a wide range of foods common on tables in the Garden State.
Weirdough NJ Bagels
Tangy, chewy and born of sourdough, a home-baker’s distinctive breakfast rounds need no embellishments to let you start your day on a roll. In fact, on better than a roll.
Rice Bowl, at El Pueblo Taqueria
Let a chef with know-how and an artillery of fine ingredients compose for you an edible mosaic in the Mexican manner that leaves the versions churned out at fast-casual chains in the dust. It’s all done the right way at a locals’ favorite in North Cape May.
G.O.A.T. Waffle
Lorena Cabra laces her made-on-the-spot waffles with a salty cheese from Colombia then drizzles them hot-off-the-griddle with a fruited sauce or dulce de leche. A more delightful breakfast at a farmers’ market you’d be hard-pressed to find.
Ma & Pa’s Triple-Decker ‘Heaven’
It’s a bruiser, this wanna-be hand-held that’s a many-layered thing coming out of the Tex-Mex-meets-BBQ genre. And it’s a gentle giant that, if it doesn’t kill you first, will win you over with its doe-eyed charms.