Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • Lower drinking age or raise military age

    Theodore Casparian of Princeton     Patrick Walsh suggests (The Princeton Packet, Sept. 9) that the national drinking age be lowered to 18 to match some other options currently available to minors, such as fighting a war, marrying and having a child. While there may be some minors who are capable of handling these responsibilities in…

  • Here comes the Italian festival!

    New this year will be a near-life-sized working replica of Rome’s renowned Trevi Fountain …     The ninth annual Mercer County Italian American Festival — New Jersey’s largest Italian American festival — will take place Sept. 26, 27 and 28, 2008 in Mercer County Park, West Windsor.     Named as one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s…

  • Princeton schools’ lawyer responds on bus bids

    David Carroll, attorney, Princeton Board of Education     I represent the Princeton Regional School District Board of Education. At the board’s request, I am writing to respond to your recent article and editorial regarding the award of certain school bus route contracts last May.    The bid specifications for these contracts clearly called for per-diem bids…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: California dreamin’: From the Delaware Valley to the Napa Valley …

    IN THE KITCHEN: California dreamin’: From the Delaware Valley to the Napa Valley …

    A view of Ceja Vineyards, a ‘real find’ in California’s famed Napa Valley, which uses sustainable techniques to produces 10,000 cases a year. Photo courtesy of Alice Wesley Tanner

  • IN THE KITCHEN: California dreamin’: From the Delaware Valley to the Napa Valley …

    IN THE KITCHEN: California dreamin’: From the Delaware Valley to the Napa Valley …

    By Pat Tanner Special Writer     I have now traveled to California’s Napa Valley twice, and while tasting wines along its famous wine trail is always delightful, my family of four was particularly pleased and surprised on this trip by two wineries in particular — and not just because of their noteworthy wines.     The…

  • SPOTLIGHT: A rabbi weaves ‘A Fabulous Tale’ of North Africa

    SPOTLIGHT: A rabbi weaves ‘A Fabulous Tale’ of North Africa

    By Michele Alperin Special Writer     Midway through rabbinical school, Burton Visotzky fell in love with midrash — rabbinic narrative and interpretation of the Bible. Maybe it is not a surprise that an English major from the University of Illinois would be drawn to rabbinic literature, but the resonance was more than just academic.    …

  • Legalize adulthood, for the second time

    Patrick Walsh of Princeton To the editor: In response to Stephen Wallace’s Guest Opinion piece on the drinking age, (The Packet, Sept. 9), I offer an old but utterly compelling argument: if Americans at 18 years of age can marry, have children, vote for our nation’s leaders, and risk their lives fighting on behalf of…

  • Mercer chapter raises awareness

    Jane Milrod of Princeton To the editor: September is the month students head back to school. It is also the month when we celebrate AD/HD Awareness Week. As the founding coordinator of the Princeton-Mercer County chapter of Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD), I wish to recognize and honor the systems that enable us…

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Down-home apple strudel goes global

    IN THE KITCHEN: Down-home apple strudel goes global

    By Faith Bahadurian Special Writer     It’s not that I’m in a hurry to leave tomatoes and corn behind. But lately I’m thinking more of fall, so I recently spent some time in my kitchen working on a new apple dessert for my repertoire, based on a recipe I found at Cooks.com for Apple Strudel…