Playing Dress-Up: 12-6-21
Sometimes it takes a lot of tinkering to add pizzazz to a familiar food. Other times, it takes very little. However it happens, the magic is there in these top eats of the two weeks just past.
Winter Farmers’ Markets
Good cooking and good eating are predicated on good shopping. Fact. Don’t expect miracles in the kitchen if your ingredients are lousy. Your best bet? Buy directly from the Garden State’s best sources.
KAI SWEETS
A confectionary in the food court at Mitsuwa offers exceptional renditions of two favorites at neighboring stalls in the busy marketplace in Edgewater.
Pickwickian Tavern & Smokery
A jolly character in a novel by Charles Dickens lends a roadhouse in South Jersey its name. But it’s the “smokery” component that gives this swell spot its soul.
Jammin’ Jars
Buy now and eat now – and later. Just remember to buy these top-notch preserves in bulk for gift-giving this holiday season.
Canton Palace
Just do it: Mark your calendar for an evening sharing with family and friends one of the 10-course menus served forth in banquet fashion – and eat like royalty.
Latkes: Top Toppings
There’s a wide world of foods we routinely partner with potatoes. Why restrict serving seasonal spud ’cakes with applesauce and sour cream when there are options galore?
Meghan Cattani: Cattani Catering & Kitchen
In the case of the chef who is always at the stoves of her eponymous restaurant in Ewing, learning how to cook at the knees of her grandmothers is no cliché, no empty claim. It’s all about heart and soul and recipes “from my grandmothers’ handwriting to your table.”
Li Beirut
Stop with Instagram for a moment and let your senses of taste and smell take charge at a Lebanese charmer that’ll teach you a thing or three about foods whose flavors trounce their looks.
The Circle
Chefs Brendan Ullmann and Tyler O’Toole bring attention to detail, commitment to fresh, local ingredients and a willingness to explore taste combinations to their new destination restaurant in Sussex County.
Here’s to the Champs: 11-22-21
The World Series, Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, NBA Finals and MLS Cup are to their respective sports what these dishes are to their genres.
Relishing Cranberries
A little late this year, but nonetheless inspiring, one of our Garden State’s top crops is here just in time to make a quick, fresh, seasonal condiment.