Category: Eat Shop See

By Nadia Arumugam |

An Idea for the Weekend: Pick Your Own Asparagus in New Jersey

If you live within reasonable driving distance of Princeton, NJ, and were just contemplating how you might spend the next two glorious days away from the office, well, I have quite the proposition for you. Wake up early, hoist on your gardening shoes and a pair of sturdy shorts, hop in the car, and hot [Read more]

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By Nadia Arumugam |

Lovely Flowering Houseplants for Mother’s Day Gifts

  Flowering houseplants make a lovely, thoughtful Mother’s Day gift. Not to repeat a trite cliché, but they really are gifts that keep on giving. I have the three lovely plants you see above in my apartment right now. They were gifts to me, from me.  They provide me with much needed companionship, and they’re [Read more]

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By Nadia Arumugam |

Book Review: Grow Cook Eat

If there was a book that I could imagine that would teach me everything I needed to know to  grow the edibles I had my heart set on from edamame and melons to garlic, tomatillos and tatsoi, this would be it. It would not bombard me with every known species of brassica or leafy green, nor [Read more]

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Book Review: Soul-Warming Comfort Fare with “Rustic Italian”

There are a few things for which I am whole-heartedly grateful: a bottomless appetite for all things chocolate, ridiculously bad circulation rendering my iceberg-cold fingers the ultimate pastry-making tools, and a job that allows me to work at home, in my comfy “work” sweats, 2 feet away from my kitchen, and with a view of [Read more]

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