You can now buy products from North Bergen-based Key Ingredient Market at Farms View in Wayne and DiPiero's Farm in Montvale. Key Ingredient is run by Matt Pivnick, the chef featured in our May story sharing his tips for entertaining your friends.
Here's another reason to build a relationship with your local fishmarket and seafood restaurant. Guys like them will be less likely to cheat you, unlike guys like this.
It's a New York Times report that says a pair of teen-agers used DNA bar coding to prove that 15 of 60 samples of fish they'd purchased in stores and restaurants weren't the right fish. Tilapia instead of white tuna, for instance.
Don't bathe in the kitchen sink at Burger King.
And if you do...don't post the video on the internet.
From The Associated Press:
LONDON — A British celebrity chef says he’s sorry for mistakenly recommending a deadly plant as a tasty salad ingredient.
Several local restaurants will participate in a Sept. 22 tasting benefit for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, including Mantra in Paramus, Blue Moon in Englewood, Madeleine's Petit Paris in Northvale and Campania in Fair Lawn. Sara Moulton, the executive chef of Gourmet Magazine, will be the celebrity guest.
Because Palisades Park doesn't have enough frozen yogurt already...a Red Mango is coming to 262 Broad Ave., according to the corporate web site and a sign on the space.
For the uninitiated, Red Mango is a tart frozen yogurt that is creamier and more ice cream-like than Pinkberry, which has no New Jersey locations.
Hirokazu Sano, who owned Parisienne Bakery on Main Street in Fort Lee, was killed in a fire at his Leonia home overnight. He was 48 years old and had owned the bakery for 20 years.
Jason Tsai has more on northjersey.com.
I was in upstate New York over the weekend, where the local newscasts were lamenting the loss of two Albany-area Starbucks stores. When I got back to New Jersey on Monday, I saw the same kind of breathless media attention: "Which Starbucks are going to close? Find out next." The newspaper are just as guilty.
Geez, people, it's just Starbucks. If some Dunkin Donuts stores was going to close, would everyone in the media care?
Rocky Aoki, who founded the Benihana chain of restaurants and spent years in Bergen County, died today. He had been suffering from cancer. He was 69.
My colleague, Elaine D'Aurizio, wrote this profile on him back in 2002:
Joe Spiekermann, owner of Mazur's Bakery in Lyndhurst, has thrown his toque into the frozen treat ring, According to his daughter Donna Spiekermann.
The popular bakery known for its black-and-white cookies and Swiss peasant bread now serves an array of cool treats from its newly installed ice cream window.
BILL PITCHER has been The Record's food editor since June 2006 after five years writing and reviewing restaurants. He was born in New York's Hudson Valley and raised in the southern Adirondacks.
E-mail pitcher (at) northjersey (dot) com.
ELISA UNG joined The Record as its food writer and restaurant reviewer in September. She's a native of California and a graduate of the University of Southern California, and she spent the last eight years writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
E-mail Ung (at) northjersey (dot) com.
ROBERT BIESELIN, a reporter in The Record's features department, has written about new restaurants and North Jersey dining events since 2005. He's a native of Orange County, N.Y., and graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College. E-mail Bieselin (at) northjersey (dot) com.
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