The Rocky Hill Inn has caught Pi Day fever! This weekend (March 11-14), you can enjoy a piece of pie for $3.14, a bit of a bargain for a restaurant dessert for sure! I also noticed a very clever cocktail menu there with historical names, when I was enjoying one of their award-winning burgers recently. How about a … Continue reading
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The Alchemist & Barrister Celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with an event to benefit The Colin Pascik Road to Recovery Fund. Compete in the Longbeard Contest (or look on with a pint and a burger), a Princeton tradition for three decades, and help to raise funds to help a valiant Marine. It’s all happening at the … Continue reading
Taste of the Nation – April 11 (Discount code below!)
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
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.
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
Valentine’s Day and More
There are lots of special events, before, during, and after Valentine’s Day; here is some of what has arrived in my Inbox lately. On February 10, 11:00am-5:00pm, the Princeton Farmers Market with both farmers and crafters participating will be in the community room of the Princeton Public Library. Info at 609-356-0558. Taste of Crete, in Hillsborough, … Continue reading
Super Bowl Action Station
We had a Super Bowl action station in Genomics Café today, featuring competing sandwiches to represent the two Super Bowl teams. The Pittsburgh Steelers were represented by a Primanti Bros. sandwich, spiced ham (capicola), provolone cheese, cole slaw, tomatoes and fries, all piled onto a big bun (so the truckers can eat it more easily). Green … 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!