Luck of the Irish
Ah, Saint Patrick’s Day – that yearly event when the Irish contribution to America is celebrated. The beef is corned, the cabbage cooked, and the beer and clothing flow green. [...]
Not Your Parents’ Way of Doing Business
You may have noticed in recent years that food products can come with a perplexing array of symbols to decode. Not only are these symbols, depending on the product, small and [...]
Water and Food, Part One
“Without clean water, we do not have healthy food,” Chef Becky flat-out states. She adds: “We don’t have food, period.” Hunterdon County residents and visitors don’t worry about water too [...]
Women Making History
March is a time to celebrate the women who made history in the culinary world, since March is Women in History month, and March 8th is International Women’s Day. What [...]
Nourishing the Body and Mind
Theodor Geisel, the children’s book author better known by his nom de plume Dr. Seuss, would turn 119 on March 2, 2023. His birthday coincides with Read Across America Week, [...]
Bourguignon, Two Ways
Bourguignon is a classic French stew made from prized beef and wine from the Burgundy region of France. It is thought that Beef Bourguignon began as a peasants’ dish, dating [...]
Eating a Rainbow, and the Role Ube Plays
Ube – pronounced “ooo - bay” – is shorthand for the purple yam, Dioscorea alata. Boiled and mashed, it becomes a tasty paste that is almost as synonymous with Filipino [...]
New Date in Town
American society has come a long way since the days of liberally using processed white sugar in everything, as sugar is tied to a host of health problems, and many [...]
Culinarily Speaking
As anyone knows, who you interact with – at work, socially, family, eating out, etc. – influences how you talk. In academia the fancy word for this is “discourse communities.” [...]
African Heritage Health Week
February is Black History Month in the US, an opportunity to learn about the African diaspora and Black contributions to the experiment that is America. African Heritage and Health Week [...]
