Earth Day

At Fresh. we celebrate Earth Day every day. This Thursday join us as we join the good folks at Bloomingdale's of Bridgewater as they go green. They'll be unveiling their new Earth Friendly initiatives for 2010 and we'll be there serving Fresh. fare.

Come and join us. Unless you have school. Or work. Or you're somewhere else and have a really super excellent reason why you can't come see us. Otherwise, we'll see you there.

Spring/Summer Blue Plates

Edible New Jersey

Fresh. in the Spring issue of edible Jersey magazine!

Check out the article "How Green Is My Restaurant?" featuring the Green Restaurant Association and Fresh. for recently becoming a certified Green Restaurant.

http://www.ediblecommunities.com/jersey/

Fried Chicken???

We hoped to keep it secret longer but recent ipad news
forced our hand...We ARE currently recipe testing our
very own secret fried chicken recipe.

Are the mayan legends of the recipe's mythical origin true?
Depends on who you believe.

Buzz Aldrin claims he brought it from space but lost it shooting craps. Some say it's what Robert Johnson went looking for at the crossroads. Still others claim Peter Frampton nicked it from the Bee Gees while filming Sgt. Pepper's...
Hard to know. Either way, their loss is your gain.

Fresh. fried chicken. Coming to a picnic basket near you this Spring.

"...These sandwiches are a culinary marriage of French technique, Chinese ingredients, and Vietnamese ingenuity; the remnants of failed colonialism and influence on Vietnam and its proud people. "

Check out their comprehensive listing of Banh Mi locations
throughout the 5 Boroughs.

NY Magazine's Where to Eat in '10

The essential survey of really good food in New York right now.

Click here to read the full NY Magazine article.

Sweet Potato Latkes

Came across a mexican inspired latke on Chowhound.
Click on the picture below to be magically transported to the recipe.



Looking for other great Hanukkah recipes not featured on a Manischewitz box? More chowhound.com recipes with updated versions of your favorite classics, click here.

Fresh. holiday menu

What's black and white and has delicious food all over it?
If you answered the Fresh holiday menu you probably have esp.

Fresh. Holiday Menu

Technically still two weeks till winter & enough already with cold weather. We're dreaming of warmer climes, remembering Hali'imaile General Store, perched high atop Maui in paniolo country.

If you too find yourself wishing yourself somewhere equatorial, reading Bev Gannon's Hali'Male menu will actually physically make you warmer and probably in general give you the ability to run faster, jump higher & possibly give you x-ray vision (actual results vary).

Hali'imaile General Store
900 Hali’imaile Road
Hali’imaile, HI 96768
Phone: 808.572.2666
http://www.bevgannonrestaurants.com/haliimaile/index.html

Going Down Slow

Heard lots about slow food but dunno
Carlo Petrini from Chef Boyardee?
If you enjoy
cooking food, eating food,
the people who grow your food
or the history of food;
you'll find something they do you'll enjoy.
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From their site:
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

To do that, Slow Food brings together pleasure and responsibility, and makes them inseparable.
Today, we have over 100,000 members in 132 countries.
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Slow Food Org Site - Click here
Slow Food Overview - Click here
Slow Food History - Click here
Central NJ Chapter - Click here
Slow Food Events - Click here

Love beautiful pictures of beautiful food?
(also known affectionately as food porn)
If you answered, "Boy howdy do I ever..."
Check out foodphotoblog.com by clicking
on the mooncake below.

Old Timey Turkey Days of Yore

From NPR:
For many of us, Thanksgiving evokes memories of turkey and cranberry dressing. But a culinary review of the "other" American holiday finds that a rich variety of desserts have shared the table with sweet potatoes and stuffing. Chris Kimball of America's Test Kitchen talks with NPR's Renee Montagne about Thanksgiving favorites from days gone by -- and how to make them.
Click here for more.

Shopsins

Definitely worth checking out: Shopsins Menu

For those of you that don't haven't heard of Kenny Shopsin,

here's a bit from NY Magazine:

"Plump, grouchy, and with his gray bouffant bursting out from beneath his Mets cap, looking a bit like a dyspeptic Shelley Winters, the inimitable Kenny Shopsin is back in business. 'Fuck!” he says one afternoon as the orders roll in. “I was getting used to not working—give me the ticket, asshole.'”

Read more: Shopsin's - Lower East Side - New York Magazine Restaurant Guide http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/shopsins/#ixzz0XLx3W0RD

Winter Farmer's Market

Slow Food Central NJ Eat Slow Winter Farmers Market

Stockton, New Jersey
Sat, November 21, 2009
through Sun, November 29, 2009
10:00AM - 3:00PM

These indoor winter farmers markets bring out the best of Central NJ and easter PA producers to highlight the season’s bounty for Thanksgiving. Open both weekends before and after Thanksgiving, this winter market highlights an 80 acre llama and alpaca farm in Hunterdon County, NJ. Dates are as follows: November 21, 22 and Nov 27, 28, 29

A $2 donation is suggested. Call 609 397-2212 for more information or visit http://www.woodsedge.com

Have a Slow Turkey Day

Great info from the folks over at Slow Food NJ on
sourcing locally grown, organic and all natural turkeys.

Vote with your fork this Thanksgiving--have a locally sourced Thanksgiving Dinner

Here are some of the sources for local Turkey & Chicken.
And don't forget some Farmer's Markets are open until Thanksgiving--pick up some delicious fall vegetables and fruit!

Consider a CSA share for next year, for a weekly supply of delicious NJ vegetables and fruit--click here for resources!

TURKEY SOURCES THE HEALTH SHOPPE Please call Brant or Jim at 973.538.9131 With a limited supply of Turkeys this year, please place your orders as soon as possible. Pickups are available Mon, Tues & Wed before Thanksgiving in Chester or Morristown Organic Turkey (Eberly Farm/Dartagnan) $4.49/lb (8-12lb, 12-16lb, 16-20lb, 20-24lb) Turkey Traditional (Griggstown) $3.99/lb (12-14lb, 15-17lb, 18-20lb, 21-23lb, 24-30lb) Heritage Red Bourbon (Griggstown) $8.99/lb(7-10lb) OG Breast Bone In (Eberly/Dartagnan) $9.99/lb(4-12lb) Boneless Turkey Breasts (Griggstown) $8.99 (3-4lb) Also capon, duck, venison, goose & guinea hen. For side dish menu go to: http://www.thehealthshoppes.com GRIGGSTOWN QUAIL FARM 986 Canal Rd. Princeton, NJ 08540 (Enter on Bunker Hill Rd) Call: 908 359-5218 All-natural, free-range White Broad-Breasted or Heritage Red Bourbon Turkeys. http://www.griggstownquailfarm.com/thanksgiving Orders may be placed on-line, over the phone, or in-person at Griggstown Farm Market location. Please remember to place all orders for our delicious side dishes by November 18th. Turkeys are available for pick-up in Bernardsville NJ, Headhouse Market in Philadelphia, Flemington NJ, and of course, our very-own Griggstown Farm Market in Princeton NJ. PLAID PIPER FARM 19 Wykertown Road Branchville, NJ 07826 Paul Dalrymple 973-875-4535 www.plaidpiperfarm.com paul@plaidpiperfarm.com TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING ARE SOLD OUT. Email or call for availability of chicken, eggs, turkey, beef, and pork They currently offer pastured chicken, beef, eggs, pork and turkeys. All of there products are raised naturally without the use of added antibiotics, hormones or pesticides. HAVENWOOD FARM 67 Henry Street Newton, NJ 07860 Ken & Nancy Hoffman 973-383-3630 havenwood@earthlink.net Turkeys sold out, chicken and eggs are available! A pasture based operation that currently is producing pastured chicken and eggs. All feeds are non-certified organic. No Genetically Modified grains/grasses are used. Email for availability and you will be sent an order form.

Increase the peace of your feast.
Everything but the Bird.
THANKSGIVING MENU 2009.

Click here to save your holiday.

Fall Specials

Fresh. Blue Plates for Fall.

Tutto bene.

Avi & I returned from Italy after eating our way through Piemonte (Turin, Asti, Alba and Barolo) into Liguria (San Remo, Sestri Levante and La Spezia) and up to Lombardy to fly out of Milan.

Should you find yourself longing to see photos of the trip - click on the picture below and you'll magically be transported to a mystical place where a bottle of wine at noon isn't a sign of a drinking problem; it's just Tuesday lunch. Tutto bene. Tutto bene indeed.

weinprobe actually way more fun than it sounds.

Turns out I can read all the languages on the sign,
but only after three bottles of wine.

That's the thing with super powers; you have to take the good with the bad.

So you think you can cook?

Just try to sneak store bought pasta past these guys....