Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • GETAWAYS: The new face of the Poconos at Mount Airy Casino Resort
  • Princeton ignores senior housing need

    Keith Wheelock of Montgomery     As a long-time Montgomery resident (and former member of Township Committee and the planning and zoning boards) I was bemused by a Princeton resident’s comment at the Princeton Township Committee’s discussion about a proposed senior housing ordinance: “The committee should hold off on the ordinance until a study is done…

  • Bill Richardson for president

    Jack Greenburg of Plainsboro     I invite my fellow citizens to learn more about Bill Richardson, the best qualified democrat running for President. Bill has been the US Ambassador to the United Nations, US Energy Secretary, a seven term congressman, and is currently the two- term Governor of New Mexico. He is eminently qualified to…

  • The holidays at Drumthwacket

    The holidays at Drumthwacket

    The entrance to the music room, decorated by the garden clubs of Bridgewater, New Providence and Westfield.

  • IN THE KITCHEN: Industrial food is a meaty matter, indeed

    By Pat Tanner Special Writer     Calling “The River Cottage Meat Book” a cookbook is like calling “War and Peace” a novella. This tome by British chef, broadcaster, writer, farmer and educator Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall does contain recipes — about 150, from the everyday (glazed baked ham, chili con carne) to the exotic (roast grouse, curried…

  • The holidays at Drumthwacket

    The holidays at Drumthwacket

    The library at Drumthwacket, decorated by the Spring Lake Garden Club.

  • Down Syndrome conference was ‘superb’

    Mary Ann Dawedeit of Chevy Chase, MD     I wanted to thank the Princeton University Class of 2010 for hosting the conference “Turn the World Upside Down” on Saturday, Nov. 17. The conference, organized by Princeton students Jenni Newbury and Connor Diemand-Yauman, provided over 200 families information about Down Syndrome via workshops and an understanding…

  • The holidays at Drumthwacket

    The holidays at Drumthwacket

    A feathered arrangement in the music room.

  • AROUND TOWN: Meatloaf in a time of E. coli

    What I’d created, eaten and saved went far beyond ground beef. It had been ritual and consolation, an opening of the scrapbooks of childhood. It had tasted just perfect, and its texture could not have been bett By Carolyn Foote Edelmann Special Writer     Certain winter days require that I take to the kitchen, whipping…