Category: lifestyle
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South Brunswick High Teens to Attend Boys State
SOUTH BRUNSWICK: American Legion Post 401 will be sending Michael Shultz and Seth Weingarten, juniors at South Brunswick High School, as delegates to Jersey Boys State at Rider University, from June 21 to 26. Both students have A averages and are involved in athletics. Schultz also plays the French Horn in the Viking Band. Boys…
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Hun Seniors Encouraged to Take Advantage of Alumni Network by Tech Entrepreneur John Marbach ’11
PRINCETON: The Class of 2015 celebrated Senior Dinner at The Hun School of Princeton on Wednesday, May 27th. Alumnus Jonathan Marbach ’11 delivered the keynote address, which focused on trust and networking. Mr. Marbach made waves in 2011, when he was one of the youngest students in the nation to earn a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship…
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IN THE KITCHEN: Cookbooks — the gifts that just keep on giving the pokks
Featured recipe: FLORENTINE HOT CHOCOLATE By Faith Bahadurian Special Writer With hundreds of cookbooks already in my collection, I have to admit I pay scant attention to most new ones Sure, I hear about the blockbusters, but I’m not a big fan of most celebrity chefs, or reality TV, which seems to be how…
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IN THE KITCHEN: Enjoy fall’s bounty at Autumn Culinaire
By Pat Tanner Special Writer Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of Mercer County, which has been serving the community’s vulnerable children for more than 35 years, will hold its annual food and wine fundraising gala, “Autumn Culinaire,” on Thursday, Oct. 15, at Greenacres Country Club in Lawrenceville. More than 20 of the area’s…
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IN THE KITCHEN: Fave, fab Web sites for foodies
By Faith Bahadurian Special Writer Over a year ago, Lifestyle editor Michael Redmond suggested an In The Kitchen column about the foodie Web sites that I and my ITK colleague Pat Tanner like to visit. At the time, neither of us thought we spent enough time visiting such sites to make a go of…
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BOOK NOTES: Going ‘down the Shore,’ from your armchair
By Joan Ruddiman Special Writer You know you are in Jersey when summer fun includes going “down the Shore,” a term that is unique to New Jersey’s Atlantic coastline. Long before there was a New Jersey, going down the Shore was an annual event for the Leni Lenapi, whose summer sojourns to the Shore were…
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BOOK NOTES: A tale sharing more than family history
‘Under Cedar Shades: A Novel’ by Helen Lavinia Underwood By Joan Ruddiman Special Writer Readers of historical fiction love to look for the “history” in the story. Though it is usually more fun — and faster — to read novels full of conflict and characters revealed in dialogue than reading through a non-fiction historical…
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BOOK NOTES: Real people who shaped their world — and ours
Biographies of little known or under-appreciated innovators By Joan Ruddiman Special Writer Book Notes takes a look at several biographies that do what good bios should do: introduce the little known or under-appreciated innovators who shape their own time and continue to influence us today In 1929, Barney Kilgore graduated from DePauw University and…