Join the fight against childhood hunger at our area’s original gourmet tasting fundaiser on April 11 at The Westin Princeton Forrestal Village, 6:00-9:00pm. Princeton’s Taste of the Nation first took place in 1992 – that’s coming on 20 years of supporting agencies right in our own back yard! 100 percent of your ticket price goes … Continue reading
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Celebrity Chefs Reunite at Eno Terra
Celebrity Chefs Reunite at Eno Terra on March 6 at an elegant event (3-7pm) to benefit the Parkinson Alliance featuring the talents of Claudia Fleming, Jonathan Benno, and Christopher Albrecht. Here is the scrumptious menu: Stuzzicchini •Arancini•Schiacciata•Seasonal Soup Watercress Salad assorted baby beets, shaved raw beets, radish, blood orange vinager, ricotta salada Grilled Octopus fried … Continue reading
No baking required!
Attention home cooks – You don’t even have to turn on your oven to enter the Princeton Pi Day Pie contest! Just email your best dessert pie recipe to lillipies@yahoo.com to enter. The top entries will be prepared by local chefs for judging on March 13. Details on the website, of course.
A Light Gone Out
Princeton’s Italian community has suffered more than one loss this winter, and the latest, of Dorothea’s House trustee Alessandra Mazzucato, is indeed a hard loss to endure. My late mother adored Alessandra, who taught us Italian at the Princeton Adult School in the mid/late 1980s. Always a warm welcome, always a warm smile. We started going … Continue reading
Pi[e] Day Rules! (or measures…)
Got Pie? As part of the 2011 Princeton Pi Day festivities, there is a pie-judging contest. That takes place at the Nassau Inn on March 13, and your’s truly will be judging along with several other local culinary “luminaries”! Home bakers should submit their family favorite pie recipe by March 1 to lillipies@yahoo.com. Selected pies will be … Continue reading
Save Our Whoopie Pie!
A culinary battle is forming over the humble whoopie pie. I have always associated this cake/filling sandwich with Lancaster County PA and the Amish. Now the state of Maine is horning in, and trying to claim the pie for their own, and may even name it their official state treat! The Wall Street Journal exposed this dastardly plot … Continue reading
NOFA Winter Conference this weekend!
Susainable agriculture is the name of the game! NOFA-NJ’s two day winter conference is titled “Sowing New Seeds” this year, and it runs two days on the campus of Princeton University. The conference promises to offer an educational and community-based experience with organic, local and sustainable food production and delivery issues at its heart and will … Continue reading
Slow Food Winter Market February 6
A wonderful way to spend a wintry Sunday, relax, have brunch, and take home some locally produced goodies!
One Table Café opens January 21
Found in my Princeton Online eNewsletter: One Table Café, located at Trinity Princeton, 33 Mercer Street Princeton, New Jersey, invites you to join them for their inaugural dinner on January 21, 6:30-8:30pm, featuring Dr. Cornel West, Professor of Religion at Princeton University. One Table Café is a community restaurant which is dedicated to providing a place that … Continue reading
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