Three days of work, four hundred and twenty three feet of glitter garland, a whole bunch of crepe paper, and some stuffed pigs and chickens did the trick: Hot From The Kettle won first place for best float yesterday at Montclair's annual Fourth of July Parade.
Team #hftk, Mike Sondey, John Lee, Elizabeth Palmer Starnes, Mr. Hot, and myself, send a patriotic "congratulations" to all participants in the parade. What a legendary day!
Our local Top Chef, Ariane Duarte, will be teaming up with Chef Amanda Freitag from Food Networks’s CHOPPED, and Carla Hall from ABC’s The Chew, for an evening of food, wine, friends, and charity.
Louie’s Kids, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting childhood obesity, is introducing a new athletic mentoring initiative, Run Buddies, to the NJ/NY area. Founder of Louie’s Kids, Louis Yuhasz, explains, “We are the folks who find the fix that fits for any kid who needs us.”
It's time for A Tasteful Experience! The annual Clara Maass Medical Center Foundation's signature food event of the Fall will take place on on Monday, November 14, 2011. The food-studded charity event will be hosted at one of New Jersey’s most beautiful and exclusive banquet facitilities, the Pleasantdale Chateau in West Orange. If you've never been there, take the Hot From The Kettle video tour of the Chateau!
Bloggable knowledge was exchanged last at night at "Fuzzy" Furlong Fieldhouse where the Adult School of Montclair hosted a panel entitled, "So You Want To Be A Food & Wine Blogger."
The discussion was moderated by Karen Diaz-Schloss of DSC Communications. Panelists included Peter Conway of Mano a Vino, Rosalie Saferstein of Table Hoping With Rosie, Deb Smith of Jersey Bites, Sharla Blanz of Off The Vine, Sue Guerra from Gary's Wine & Marketplace, and myself.
CulinAriane and Amanti Vino will be hosting another fabulous wine pairing dinner on Wednesday, October 26. The dinner will feature Italian wines from Sottimano Winery in Piedmont.
Ritesh Patel and Chef Karthik KumarMontclair has long been a formidable food town, highly regarded for innovative new-American cuisine, and praised for the large number of ethnic restaurants. Strangely, Montclair’s culinary portfolio was lacking a serious performer in the Indian food sector.
This past July, gastronomic fortune turned in favor of Montclair when Sati Sharma and his partner, Ajit Singh Bains, opened Brick Lane Curry House at 540 Valley Road in Montclair.
The Montclair location marks the third Brick Lane Curry House, following Manhattan locations on 6th Street, and 53rd Street. The man largely responsible for this culinary blessing is Montclair resident and food enthusiast, Ritesh Patel.
Three days of work, four hundred and twenty three feet of glitter garland, a whole bunch of crepe paper, and some stuffed pigs and chickens did the trick: Hot From The Kettle won first place for best float yesterday at Montclair's annual Fourth of July Parade.
Photo Credit: Cristin Kettle-Sondey
