
Location: Train Station Parking Lot, Godwin Ave & W Ridgewood Ave
Sundays
June 26, 2016 – October 30, 2016
9:00am – 3:00pm
Enjoy “Farm to Table”
Ridgewood Train Station
Parking Lot West Side
or call 201-445-2600
Location: Train Station Parking Lot, Godwin Ave & W Ridgewood Ave
Enjoy “Farm to Table”
Ridgewood Train Station
Parking Lot West Side
or call 201-445-2600
Ridgewood Chamber of Commerce Farmers Market
Sun, June 26, 2016 – Sun, October 30, 2016
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: Train Station Parking Lot, Godwin Ave & W Ridgewood Ave
Sundays
June 26, 2016 – October 30, 2016
9:00am – 3:00pm
Enjoy New Jeresy’s Own
“Jersey Corn, Tomatoes, Blueberries and Strawberries”
Ridgewood Train Station
Parking Lot West Side
or call 201-445-2600
The “toxic” situation has not arrived. You are imagining a Walking Dead future. Relax.
People will shop if there are products that they want, at a good price.
Restaurants do fine. They all wish that they could sell alcohol and make big bucks on the bar. The restaurants, like Valley, are regional businesses. People come to Ridgewood to dine out, many love the fact that we have so many byob establishments. This is the crux of the “parking problem”. People from all over Bergen county come to Ridgewood. The busineses would like more but feel that they are hampered by lack of parking.
They need to come up with a solution that does not rely on me for funding.
Location: Memorial Park at Van Neste Square, E. Ridgewood Ave & Oak St
Right now we are planning our Taste of Ridgewood…call 201-445-2600 about the weather.
Join us for the Annual
“Taste of Ridgewood”
Memorial Park at Van Neste Square in the heart of the business district.
Free Parking on Sunday.
Open to the public from 1-4pm
$5.00pp entrance donation
Music and fun for everyone!
Weather permitting
Enjoy tastings from some of Ridgewood’s finest restaurants and sweet treat shops…
along with a peck of Ridgewood’s own
Farmers Markets…get your early vegetables
and more…
see you there!
for more details call 201-445-2600
info@ridgewoodchamber.com
Former President Bill Clinton on Friday gingerly waded into New Jersey’s simmering debate over what to call New Jersey’s beloved egg, cheese and breakfast meat sandwich. Claude Brodesser-Akner, NJ.com Read more
Gov. Chris Christie sought to put an end to the raging culinary debate over whether what to call the Garden State’s beloved breakfast sandwich. Claude Brodesser-Akner, NJ.com Read more
Aaron E. Carroll
THE NEW HEALTH CARE APRIL 15, 2016
There was a lot of news this week about a study, published in the medical journal BMJ, that looked at how diet affects heart health. The results were unexpected because they challenged the conventional thinking on saturated fats.
And the data were very old, from the late 1960s and early 1970s.
This has led many to wonder why they weren’t published previously. It has also added to the growing concern that when it comes to nutrition, personal beliefs often trump science.
Perhaps no subject is more controversial in the nutrition world these days than fats. While in the 1970s and 1980s doctors attacked the total amount of fat in Americans’ diets, that seems to have passed. These days, the fights are over the type of fat that is considered acceptable.
Most of our fat comes from two main sources. The first is saturated fats. Usually solid at room temperature, they’re in red meat, dairy products and partly in chicken. The second is unsaturated fats, usually softer and more liquid at room temperature. They’re in fish, nuts and vegetable oils. Many doctors and nutritionists still argue, quite strongly, that the key to health is to emphasize the unsaturated fats. Others believe that’s misguided.
This week’s news came to us by way of a randomized controlled trial, which I’ve argued repeatedly is the best kind of study to determine how one thing causes another.
Sun, June 05, 2016
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Memorial Park at Van Neste Square, E. Ridgewood Ave & Oak St
Save the Date!
Join us for the Annual
“Taste of Ridgewood”
Memorial Park at Van Neste Square in the heart of the business district.
Free Parking on Sunday.
Open to the public from 1-4pm
$5.00pp entrance donation
Music and fun for everyone!
Weather permitting
Enjoy tastings from some of Ridgewood’s finest restaurants and sweet treat shops…
along with a peck of Ridgewood’s own
Farmers Markets…get your early vegetables
and more…
see you there!
for more details call 201-445-2600
info@ridgewoodchamber.com
Ridgewood NJ, It’s never too late to make health lifestyle choices so that you can stay active. Seniors and active older adults are invited to “Smart Food Choices for Healthy Aging” presentation by Registered Nurse Joanne Wendolowski on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at YWCA Bergen County, 112 Oak Street, Ridgewood, NJ. This free event will be held from 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Making smart food choices can be simpler than you think, learn facts and tips to help you make wise choices with this talk.
Joanne Wendolowski, RN, BC, MS is the Public Health Nurse Supervisor of Health Awareness Regional Program (HARP) at HackensackUMC. HARP has a long history of providing health promotion programs to participants throughout Bergen County. Health education programs focus on the prevention of chronic illness by teaching the community to eat healthy, be active, avoid tobacco, and manage stress. These programs are designed to help the community increase control over their health with an opportunity to learn positive coping strategies and healthy habits.
To register, please visit https://ywca-smart-food-choices.eventbrite.com. For more information about this presentation, please contact Barrie Lynn Lifton at 201-345-4614, emailblifton@ywcabergencounty.org or visit www.ywcabergencounty.org.
April 19,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood Nj, 220 years ago next week, on April 28, 1796, Amelia Simmons published the first cookbook “American Cookery”, written by an American. Prior to that, the cookbooks used in the Thirteen Colonies were British, and lacked information on how to use foods, spices and other ingredients found in America.
As historian Greg Mangan states, what made Simmons’s work unique “was its recognition of the deficiencies of existing British cookbooks when it came to understanding American culture”, and that it provides valuable insights into the methods and foods that helped colonists forge a uniquely American culinary identity.
A skillful cook, historian Karen Hess points out that Simmons recipes had a variety of herbs, as well as wine, and “extraordinarily fine roasting techniques”. She incorporated common early American foods – cornmeal, pumpkins, and molasses — into her recipes, and was the first cookbook author to mention “pearl ash”, (a wood ash, the forerunner of baking powder) to lighten or leaven dough.
American Cookery also shows the influence of Dutch words in our area at that time – words like slaw, meaning salad; and cookey, from koekje, meaning cookie.
The impact of American Cookery on local Ridgewood residents at that time can be seen in an 1823 book of hand-written recipes by Ridgewood native Jeanette Pells. Two of her recipes (Ginger bread and Sugar cake) call for one or two teaspoons of pearl ash.
To learn more about food preparation and cooking in Ridgewood in the 18th and 19th centuries, come to the Schoolhouse Museum’s new exhibit “Farm and Home”using artifacts from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Museum is located at 650 E. Glen Ave., Ridgewood, NJ, and visiting hours are Thursdays and Saturdays; 1 to 3 p.m. and Sundays; 2 to 4 p.m. To contact the museum: 201-447 3242 or ridgewoodhistoricalsociety@verizon.net
Ridgewood NJ, This April, Kings Food Markets is finding ways to give back to the community.
WHAT: Starting today, Kings Food Markets (Kings) launches its “Buy Two, Donate One” Program to support the Salvation Army. Through its Act Against Hunger initiative, Kings continues to make an impact on hunger relief in the area, and since 2013, has donated over 100,000 pounds of food throughout the community to those in need – and will continue its efforts over the next two weeks.
Shoppers who purchase our Kings Own products, which will be sold at discounted rates, have the option to “Buy Two” products, and “Donate One” to the Salvation Army.
Additionally, to extend our support and gratitude for all of the Salvation Army’s endless work, Kings also made a monetary donation to the organization.
WHERE: All Kings Food Markets locations
WHEN: April 1 – April 14
WHO: Kings Food Markets
Salvation Army
By SHIVANI VORA
MARCH 25, 2016
A pool of creamy mozzarella spilled out of the grilled zucchini wrapped around the thick round of cheese. With every pleasurable bite, I had to remind myself that I was in Ridgewood and not Campania, Italy.
The restaurant, From Scratch, has that kind of transporting affect. The dishes are simple but use the highest quality ingredients, including local vegetables and seafood. Oils, cheeses and cured meats arrive weekly from the motherland (the mozzarella had indeed traveled from Campania to Ridgewood just days before I savored it). And, as the name suggests, everything — from the pastas and breads to the sauces and desserts — is prepared from scratch.
Karen KaplanContact Reporter
Researchers who have analyzed America’s eating habits say they can sum up what’s wrong with our diet in just two words: ultra-processed foods.
These foods — a group that includes frozen pizzas, breakfast cereals and soda — make up 58% of all calories Americans consume in a typical day. Not only that, they delivered 90% of the added sugars that Americans ate and drank, according to a studypublished Wednesday in the medical journal BMJ Open.
Government health experts advise Americans to get no more than 10% of their total calories in the form of added sugars. But most us aren’t listening. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that 71% of American adultsexceeded that 10% goal, and that added sugars accounted for 15% of all the calories they consumed.
All of that added sugar makes people more likely to be overweight or obese. That, in turn, sets them up for serious health problems like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer (not to mention lots of cavities).
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ultra-processed-foods-diet-20160309-story.html
Italia Di Gusto, 44 E. Ridgewood Ave, Ridgewood, NJ
Italia di Gusto invites you to a series of Culinary trip diners through various regions of Italy starting with presentation of traditional foods of Valle D’Aosta cuisine.
Chef Claudia Rovegno has prepared a menu that represents some of the traditional dishes of the Valle D’Aosta region:
-Focaccia with bresaola with arugula, topped with shaved Parmigiano Reggiano.
-Homemade gnocchi with Organic Valle d’Aosta Fontina.
-Carbonade with polenta (a stew of salt-cured beef, red wine and spices)
Dessert: Blanc a manger with blueberries
Wine suggestion: Barolo, Dolcetto D’Alba, Barbareschi
reservation only: Thur March 3, 2016 at 7PM
phone 201-857-5188
fixed price menu: $60.00pp
Ridgewood NJ, DUE has left its old location for a new, much bigger, more comfortable location just four doors down the street at the former “Natalie’s” location!