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!
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.
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.
Of Reaping and Sowing
What Dorothy Turner grows, her community eats. Right now, the veteran farmer is planning her customers’ next meals from her fields in Howell.
Pro Picks: 2023/2024
What food or dish did you cook or grow or make in 2023 that best expresses why you do what you do in the culinary arts? And: What are you most looking forward to cooking, growing, making or eating in 2024? We asked and the pros answered.
