Chelsea Frost, Pie Girl
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 the baker best known as “Pie Girl,” whose stalls at farmers’ markets and pop-ups about town are almost as well-known for their waiting lines as they are for the talented chef’s way-beyond-humble pies.
A Year of Baking Legally
The cookies have been coming! And so have the coffees and the preserves and other from-the-heart homemade edibles. They’ve been on the right side of the law for the past dozen months, thanks to hard, smart and effective work by the New Jersey Home Bakers Association. One of its leaders reflects.
Paulo Velasco, Bread & Culture
In the latest installment of TPW’s monthly column featuring Martha Rabello talking shop with a fellow practitioner of the pastry and baking arts, Martha visits with Paulo Velasco, whose love of the grain einkorn is positively contagious.
Connect Call
When City Green farmer Henry Anderson reached out to Razza chef Dan Richer about an abbondanza of a crop, the magic of farm-to-table cookery was ignited. Yes, it takes effort – to source, to obtain, to learn how best to use. But, as Richer is wont to say, “The proof is in the product.” And so it is when the farm’s primo plum tomatoes crush it atop the chef’s pizza.
Ridhima Sood, The Bake Shop at Moghul Express
In the latest installment of TPW’s monthly column featuring Martha Rabello talking shop with a fellow practitioner of the pastry and baking arts, Martha visits with Ridhima Sood, who is singularly capable of making rasmalai the center of the dessert universe. Rasmalai Tres Leches, anyone?
Market Roost
Best known by those who know good food, the pioneering market-cum-café in downtown Flemington has been piloted by Carol and Norman Todd for 41 years – 41 years of working together, cooking together and tending to the details that make every savory plate, every major-occasion party, every birthday pastry as special as it should be.
Food for the Soul
By using history as far more than mere reference, Gilda Rogers' words and Ada Asghedom's dishes deliver a one-two punch of African culinary culture and its influences on modern soul food in a program presented by the Monmouth County Historical Association.
The Pastatarians
AJ Sankofa, Kristina Gambarian and their team at ESO Artisanal Pasta take their craft to another level, determined to elevate an everyday food we hold sacrosanct.
Josué Negrón, Dulce Artisanal Pastry
In the latest installment of TPW’s monthly column featuring Martha Rabello talking shop with a fellow practitioner of the pastry and baking arts, Martha visits with Josué Negrón, owner of one of the most revered bakeshops in the Garden State. And, she learns, this pastry artist never wants to be without his bowl scraper.
Happy Campers
Liz McCabe and Adam Sternberger, the couple who own the wise and worldly White Horse Wine & Spirits in Absecon, are ringleaders of an activist culinary community in Atlantic County. An evening of natural wines and local foods they orchestrated and dubbed NatCamp shows what they bring to the table.
Ram & Rooster, a Garden State Original
Sean Yan, the acclaimed and innovative pastry chef at Heirloom Kitchen, plans to open next year a Chinese-inspired restaurant of his own that promises to be one-of-a-kind in New Jersey.
Sean Yan, Heirloom Kitchen
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 Sean Yan, pastry chef at Heirloom Kitchen in Old Bridge. And Martha scores a scoop as she learns more about this all-pro: Next year, he’ll be opening his own restaurant.