Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • SPOTLIGHT: A triumph of taste

    SPOTLIGHT: A triumph of taste

        She did it again. And now she’s done it again.     Cooking Light, the nation’s largest food and fitness magazine, announced Monday that Devon Delaney of Princeton had won the $20,000 grand prize in its fourth annual Cooking Light Ultimate Reader Recipe Contest. Her winning recipe: Ranch Steak Bruschetta Salad.     So this is…

  • BIBLIOPHILIA!

    BIBLIOPHILIA!

        The Friends of the Princeton Public Library Annual Book Sale, which will take place Oct. 3 through 5, will feature books of special interest from the libraries of James Harford, author and authority on the history of the Russian space program; James Hillier, physicist and inventor, and playwright William McCleery. An especially strong selection of…

  • IN VINO VERITAS: Developing one’s ‘nose’

    By LESLIE CRAMER Special Writer     Most wine tastings are given by local wine merchants or clubs and are often educational in nature; meaning they are workshop-like and led by a speaker, some sort of professional in the field. Liquor and wine wholesale distributors, liquor store/wine shops, usually hold them, and restaurants may, too, when…

  • SPOTLIGHT: A triumph of taste

    SPOTLIGHT: A triumph of taste

    Devon Delaney Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • BOOK NOTES: The mind-body connection: Giving those little gray cells a workout

    It was with true shock that the Naperville Central High School discovered that their ninth graders ranked first in the world in science and sixth in the world in math. By JOAN RUDDIMAN Special Writer     Are you feeling smarter than you did in March? Are you multi- tasking more effectively? Reading more? Recalling more…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: The culinary riches of Rosh Hashana

    IN THE KITCHEN: The culinary riches of Rosh Hashana

    By FAITH BAHADURIAN Special Writer     Rosh Hashana is Judaism’s New Year, a time for reflection on the past and resolutions for a better future. The observance, which marks the commencement of the year 5769, will begin at sundown on Monday and continue through Yom Kippur, which takes place at sundown on Oct. 8. The…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: The culinary riches of Rosh Hashana
  • ACLU disputes Packet headline

    Deborah Jacobs of ACLU-NJ     The headline “ACLU off target on Rocky Hill regarding immigration tactic,” in your Sept. 12 edition, misleads readers. If Rocky Hill parents called the number listed by the Department of Education to register their children for school, they would have received the same misinformation that the ACLU received: that a…

  • Fingerpointing on Skillman Village

    Sue Repko of Montgomery     It should come as no surprise that the crisis in the financial markets – particularly in real estate – would have serious impacts on Main Streets across the country. Montgomery Township is no exception, as your recent article on Skillman Village illustrates. But while the redevelopment there appears to be…