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.
Sister Kitchen
Working out of St. Monica’s Church in Atlantic City, a team dedicated to advancing the mission of the legendary Sister Jean is getting cooking on her primary goal: feeding meals to people in need.
Home, Fertile Home
Homesteading places importance on the life arts, the land, the seasons and mindful stewardship. To an increasing number of practitioners, it also means educating community.
Growing and Gardening
Brittney Portes is digging in to a career in farming at an angle all her own. Paramus-raised and now heading up a community garden at Montclair State University, she aims to share passion and knowledge with those looking to grow with her.
Catch to Kitchen
Amanda Axelsson and Brady Lybarger champion the scallop, that free-living species in the bivalve family capable of swimming like an Olympian and realizing the fantasies of seafood-centric chefs from Japan and China to the Iberian Peninsula to the Jersey Shore.
Keeper of the Flame
South Jersey Smoke House is revered pitmaster Dan Greenberg’s new enterprise and it’s making the scene at markets in Margate, Collingswood and Ocean City. For starters.