Rebecca Shuster, Farmhouse Sweets
In a new edition of TPW’s periodic pro-meets-pro column, Joselin Oudemans talks shop with a fellow practitioner of the pastry and baking arts: Rebecca Shuster, a psychologist-turned-baker and owner of the newly opened Farmhouse Sweets in Allamuchy.
Little Shop of Cheeses
The cheesemongers at Main Street Cheese Company in Somerville aim to educate with samplings, classes, community outreach and more interactive opportunities than typically found at a science museum. In the process, they’re setting a new scene in an increasingly culinary-centric downtown.
Adventures on the Spice Route
Exploring and intensifying flavor is the main mission of Lynley Jones, the spice master and force behind appropriately named Adventure Kitchen in Montclair. Cook along with her through the holiday season and set yourself on a path to foods with new vitality.
More Than a Match
Mark Pascal and Francis Schott are pioneers with passions they’ve parlayed into culinary enterprises that do far more than feed, educate and inspire. And they’ve done it for 32 years, equal partners all the way. What is the recipe for their secret sauce?
A Home for Benchmark Breads
The bakers of the Garden State’s most acclaimed loaves are days away from opening a retail shop in Little Silver that will release them from itinerant work lives and give them the freedom to grow and play with seasonal ingredients. Shout hallelujah!
Never Too Many Cooks
It’s a club whose members are happy to gather weekly and prepare “elevated” foods that feed the Open Door Community Pantry of Frenchtown United Methodist Church – and their neighbors. Photographer Ian Peters sat in on a session, watching the volunteers at work and making make images that show why cooking is love.
All’s Shared in Love and Food
Peruvian classics are never better than when prepared in a home kitchen by a cook who not only honors traditions but creates them for the family and friends who gather at his table.
Tomato High-Q
It’s that cherished time of year when, all at once and quite gloriously, our Jersey farm- and garden-grown tomatoes are everywhere. But only one person in the Garden State can be the best at growing tomatoes, and that person is Lena Halberstadt.
Sean Yan’s New Family Restaurant
Ram & Rooster is the product of the chef’s singular voice and vision: A Chinese-inspired New American mecca-to-be in Metuchen where meticulous elocution of a highly personal tasting menu is meant to educate. And it’s happening in partnership with his parents and sister.
Terra Chimera Farm
What Lauren Giunta and Cain Cummings are growing on acres in Cape May County isn’t about quantity yields and common crops, but treasures unearthed in a wealth of seed catalogs and destined to inspire.
Creams from the Crops
Daughter-Dad team Komal and Pankaj Das churn the expected, the unexpected and a whole lot in between at their highly personal ice cream shop in Budd Lake.
Byrd’s Eye View
Chef Ehren Ryan brings his distinctive and provocative world of food to a new space in Hoboken, determined to redefine casual elegance while respecting the values and vision he set in place at Common Lot. With Byrd, Air Ryan is born.