[Photos: Brian Yarvin] Walking through my local outpost of the Supremo supermarket chain, under the Mexican, Colombian, and Brazilian flags, I got an intense dose of Latin American flavors that showed just how important those cuisines are here. Just...
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[Photos: Brian Yarvin>] With all the discussion in the press about different turkey breeds, Heritage versus contemporary, and the various places where a person can spend many hundreds of dollars on a turkey, you'd think that these were the...
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[Photos: Brian Yarvin] The other day, I received a breathless message from Eric Eisenbud, as knowledgeable a food enthusiast as there is here in Central New Jersey, and what he said left me in deep shock: the Dragon Palace—the...
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"Beautiful bellies, bones for soup, ears and intestines, you name it, it's there." Back in July I wrote: "Right now... I believe The Great Wall is the best Chinese supermarket in the state, but rival chain Asian Food Center is...
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[Photos: Carey Jones] We've written about their banana whip; Ed's raved about their contributions to the New Amsterdam Market. But even though we've got a long-standing relationship with The Bent Spoon—one of our contributors worked there, and I spent...
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"All livestock sold for slaughtering purposes only." [Photos: Brian Yarvin] Walking through the calf pens at the Livestock Co-op Auction in Hackettstown, I spotted a few guys who resembled my idea of an all-American farmer. Soft-spoken, wind burned, and looking...
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[Photos: Brian Yarvin] Once again, my mind is stuck on the matter of a state slogan for New Jersey. My current vote is "Goat Done Right." And if we can't get this as a state slogan, how about declaring...
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[Photographs: Allison Hemler] None of us grew up drinking coffee from the womb. In fact, I'll bet most of our parents kept us away from the slodgy brown stuff until high school, when we required caffeine to keep us...
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[Photographs: Brian Yarvin] There's a certain pleasure in visiting Salem County. It's as rural as New Jersey gets and when you're driving down straight roads through flat farm country, it's a bit more like Alabama than Newark. Even though...
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[Photos: Brian Yarvin] There's a lament I hear so often, that I sometimes think I should carry an audio system for the sad violin soundtrack that goes along with it. You've probably heard it, too. "[This particular food] is...
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