[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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"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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[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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[Photos: Brian Yarvin] Who is that angry guy who reviews Indian restaurants for a bunch of websites like Oak Tree Road? (Typical Angry Guy quote: "It was as if Josef Mengele's twin brother was lurking in Udupi Village's kitchen...
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"I want fresh stuff in the store, and I'd rather have my own." [Photographs: Brian Yarvin] Wedged in between offices and suburban homes, Abma’s Farm Market is one of the nation’s very few farms with a Starbucks practically on its...
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[Photographs: Brian Yarvin] Every time I heard an excited comment about the Alpine Deli, somebody was bound to ask what other store could compare with it. The problem, though, is that there are two unrelated shops called the “Alpine...
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Last week, I spent an afternoon giving a tour of Oak Tree Road to Geetika Khanna, founder and director of the Indian Culinary Center in Manhattan. Stretching between Edison and Iselin, Oak Tree Road has the largest concentration of...
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