Wherever you are in our viewing audience, if you need a quality salty snack check out Martin’s Pretzels. And I’m not just saying that because I just finished re-doing their web site. They make a terrific product, really hard, crunchy and salty.

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Is there a word for the feeling you get when you get too much wasabi at once and if feels like your sinuses are about to burst into flames? What if someone made a wasabi slurpee — could you get that and a brain-freeze at the same time?
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Back when I started cooking, I used to try to make bread. The recipes I tried were a tremendously time-consuming, labor-intensive struggle against the ingredients, and I never quite won. Thanks to the NY Times’ Minimalist column last Wednesday, I found a winner.

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We’ve become big fans of the “Trader Joe’s” franchise around here. Good quality, great prices, friendly service. I needed part of a bottle of red wine for a recipe I was making, and they had a special on bottles from the Robert Shaw vineyard. Yes, the “Jaws” guy. Thinking maybe he was doing the slumming [...]
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Newark has always been the place to go for good Spanish and Portuguese food, and NJPAC is a terrific concert hall. But there are other omens and portends in the air indicating that Newark may finally be turning a corner. Since any omens worth their salt come in threes, here are the ones I’ve seen: [...]
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While not officially part of the festival, Big Train will be playing four sets between 3 and 7 p.m. at Scotland Yard in Hoboken. If you find yourself in Hoboken on Sunday, September 24, tear yourself away from the nobodys playing on the big stages for a little while and stop by and say hello.
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June 19th, 2006 | Comments Off | Food |
Aaaaah . . . Brainfreeze!
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