The Hopewell Valley is getting a bit more variety in its restaurant scene! If you’ve noticed, there are more than a few new eateries in the PQM shopping complex, in…
Renata Barnes
Renata Barnes
Renata is the author of "The Taste Chase," MercerMe's own food review column. She's a lover of all things poetic, colorful, funny and inspiring. A native New Yorker, who grew up in Hopewell Valley and spent the better part of her adulthood back in NYC, currently finds herself in a growing love relationship with “the Valley”. Latin food, Indian saris and mehndi, French perfume, African music, Middle Eastern spices, South American jewels, Asian fabrics and anything from just about any island (maybe not Riker’s Island) are things that remind her to go out and taste the world, live passionately and always wear deodorant. The mother of one rambunctious boy and the wife of a mellow fellow, Renata tries to put her too many years of university and her film and writing talents to good use here in NJ. “I’ve spent too much time trying to fit in some where when I probably belong everywhere. That slow revelation has been freeing.”
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Like the promise of spring, the pursuit of culinary adventure lies ahead of the Taste Chase bunch as we plunge into 2024. And so, we begin – weaving our way…
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It’s Back! The NINTH Annual MercerMe Cut-throat Cookie Exchange sign up is open!!!
Attention Bakers: On December 2nd, cookie makers who feel lucky will once again meet on the field of battle, well the barn of battle, for the 9th Annual Mercerme Cut-Throat…
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Joanne Canady-Brown and her talented team have wowed us for years with the deliciousness of her wildly popular bakery, the Gingered Peach in Lawrenceville. Now she and the GP gang…
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Moooooove over Dairy Queen and make room for the latest ice cream slinger on the block. Lawrenceville’s Main Street, aka,”The Sweetest Quarter Mile Around” with an eclectic mix of restaurants,…
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The Taste Chase gets baked: Terra Momo (finally) opens its doors in Pennington
Finally – The Bread is Done! We have bread in Pennington! After weeks, months, and about two or so years, we finally have bread. No more “fakeries” for us! Visions…
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Welcome Fall! 39th annual Plowing Match at Howell Farm kicks off the autumn season
Howell Living History Farm bade summer farewell and welcomed in the autumn season by hosting the 39th Annual Howell Farm Plowing Match. That’s right, human and beast partnered in teams…
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African American History Month is winding down like a satisfied cousin LeRoy snoozing in the good chair after the family meal on any given Sunday. But just before he yawns,…
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August 30, 2021 was a sweltering day, despite the promise, or the hope, that there would be some kind of reprieve from my own personal, portable sauna. I think the…
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Well, the cookies have been judged and the winners are basking in the glow of their oven lights, while the rest of us are just thumbing through the Pelaton catalog.…