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    Pizza in New Jersey

    in New Jersey: Dining

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    I had pizza at Pete & Elda's on Saturday night - crust was neither brittle nor dried out, and the pizza was delicious. Wish they had better salads, but Bass on tap and great pizza (crust neither brittle, etc) requires that I ignore the salad deficiencies....

    Humble Buckwheat

    in Food Traditions & Culture

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    koreans use buckwheat for noodles - naengmyun which are way chewier than soba noodles and I think taste a lot different. 

    koreans also roast buckwheat and make it into a tea called "bori-cha"  You usally drink it cold in the summer and hot in the winter.  When I was younger it was a replacement for water during the day.

    I used to be able to buy those Korean buckwheat noodles at a now-closed oriental grocery in Edison, New Jersey. I've never seen them anywhere else - do you know where they are sold?

    thanks!

    I don't know why you couldn't find them at any korean grocery store. They are usually sold in the dry noodle aisle or the frozen section in packets with a frozen packet of stock. I like the frozen product better, because its way easier to use

    Never knew about the frozen ones, thanks!

    Humble Buckwheat

    in Food Traditions & Culture

    Posted

    koreans use buckwheat for noodles - naengmyun which are way chewier than soba noodles and I think taste a lot different. 

    koreans also roast buckwheat and make it into a tea called "bori-cha"  You usally drink it cold in the summer and hot in the winter.  When I was younger it was a replacement for water during the day.

    I used to be able to buy those Korean buckwheat noodles at a now-closed oriental grocery in Edison, New Jersey. I've never seen them anywhere else - do you know where they are sold?

    thanks!

    Rutherford ShopRite Closing Forever

    in New Jersey: Cooking & Baking

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    Until very recently there was an Acme market on the Elizabeth/Union border (Magie Avenue, for those who know the area). It wasn't a very good supermarket, but like the Rutherford SR was popular with older people who lived nearby and walked there. No alternative within walking distance exists - an A&P is 2 miles North, up a long hill, and there's a SR about the same distance South.

    This Acme didn't have much in the way of prepared foods - which have higher margins than ordinary grocery items- and it may be that with the typical supermarket margins (which I recall are 1 to 2 percent) it couldn't make it in the face of rising costs.

    I also wonder if what we're starting to see is marginal locations being done in by the loss of grocery customers to Wal Mart, Costco, Target, etc.

    Single best food store

    in Kitchen Consumer

    Posted

    Well than, Philadelphians, tell us about Capogiro - never heard of it and curious to find out. Sounds Italian, sounds like a salumaria...what else?

    Capogiro is a gelato shop, not a "food store" per se, but many of us in Philly have become so entranced by their product that we start believing that gelato is really the only food we need.

    But back on topic, somebody had to say it: Wegmans in Pittsford, NY.

    Is there something unique about the Pittsford Wegmans?

    Lunch in Elizabeth

    in New Jersey: Dining

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    I can confirm that there is still a White Castle at the corner of Elmora and Westfield avenues. I think it's open 24 hours a day. Judging by the scene I've encountered, the same guys who were at the counter at 1 am in the 60's may still be hanging there

    If the George's hot dogs mentioned up thread was on Bayway, it closed 5 or more years ago and is now an Italian place called - I think - Pinocchio's.

    NJ Farmers Markets 2005

    in New Jersey: Cooking & Baking

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    "A little late in replying but I go to the Trenton Farmers market regularly. In season they can't be beat for tomatos, lima beans, brussel sprouts and squash.

    Beside that, the Polish specialty meat shop has the absolute best double smoked garlic kielbasa on the planet. Down the aisle a bit is a little specialty Italian that has Zabar's hearth baked breads and nice imported risotto, great stuff."

    Thanks, Jeff L, the scoop on the kielbasa was welcome news, indeed!

    And Give Us This Day Our Daily....

    in Food Traditions & Culture

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    Coffee water salad bread and some kind of adult beverage before and/or during dinner.

    My salad jones is so bad I ate it every morning for breakfast when I was in Japan a few weeks ago - the hotel b'fast buffet had bowls of nice greens, grape tomatoes with real flavor and fine cukes. None of the noodle or other joints I frequented for most other meals had any kind of salad available, so I had to get my fix in the morning. Got some pretty strange looks.....

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