The latest Canal House Cooking issue is out, An Italian Summer, a collection of their favorite dishes from beautiful Italy, where Mss. Hamilton and Hirsheimer spent a lot of time working very hard (oh, sure!) researching the best dishes to bring home for us. This is a smaller issue of their usual seasonal cookbook series, and will be followed by fall/holiday and winter/spring books to continue on the theme of a year in Italy, Casa Canale style. Visit their website to subscribe.
Eno Terra hosts a Vegetarian Harvest Dinner with produce from their own Canal Farm on August 10. The five course feast includes wine pairing for each course. Call 609-497-1777 to reserve.
Slow Food North New Jersey puts on an August 21 Sustenanceä on the Farm Dinner at Fosterfields Living Historical Farm in Morristown, to benefit the group’s school garden programs. Farmer Rob Kibbe will conduct a horse drawn hayride tour of Fosterfields Living Historical Farm and James Beard nominated Chef Andrea Carbine, owner of À Toute Heure in Cranford, NJ, will prepare an elegant five-course, farm-to-table dinner, with dessert from chocolate artisan Diane Pinder of Donna & Company. Sustainable wines will be paired with each course from Opici Wine Importers, and there will be live music from the Cabin Jazz All-Stars.
Congratulations to Elements, Eno Terra, and the Peacock Inn – they are on the newly released list of New Jersey Monthly‘s Top 25 Restaurants in New Jersey.
Come out for a good time while you do good! Plan ahead for the September 12 benefit at Brother’s Moon to help out a Hopewell family battling a serious illness. Chef Will will serve up his famous BBQ Pork along with corn salad, corn bread, and a wealth of other seasonal produce from local farms. Call 609-333-1330 for details and to reserve – advance reservations are needed, payment is by check. Cost is $40 per person or $100 for the family.
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