Value local news? Hopewell Valley counts on MercerMe for daily reporting. But quality journalism takes time, care, and resources—and it only continues with your support. Monthly Supporter $10 A MONTH…
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.”
-
-
Value local news? Hopewell Valley counts on MercerMe for daily reporting. But quality journalism takes time, care, and resources—and it only continues with your support. Monthly Supporter $10 A MONTH…
-
Value local news? Hopewell Valley counts on MercerMe for daily reporting. But quality journalism takes time, care, and resources—and it only continues with your support. Monthly Supporter $10 A MONTH…
-
Value local news? Hopewell Valley counts on MercerMe for daily reporting. But quality journalism takes time, care, and resources—and it only continues with your support. Monthly Supporter $10 A MONTH…
-
FeaturedMercerMe ArchiveThe Taste Chase
The Taste Chase: The 5th Annual Trenton Pork Roll Festival, Hog Heaven or Pork Purgatory?
Memorial Day just passed. Can you guess where I was? Of course you can because you’ve read enough of The Taste Chase to understand my love of almost all pork …
-
FeaturedMercerMe ArchiveThe Taste Chase
The Taste Chase: Hopewell Restaurant Week, Extended Cut and the Boro Bean
Value local news? Hopewell Valley counts on MercerMe for daily reporting. But quality journalism takes time, care, and resources—and it only continues with your support. Monthly Supporter $10 A MONTH…
-
Events & FeaturesFeaturedMercerMe ArchiveThe Taste Chase
The Taste Chase: Restaurant Week in Hopewell Boro and the IMPOSSIBLE BURGER
Value local news? Hopewell Valley counts on MercerMe for daily reporting. But quality journalism takes time, care, and resources—and it only continues with your support. Monthly Supporter $10 A MONTH…
-
Events & FeaturesFeaturedMercerMe Archive
Art Exhibit Upcoming, Common Threads 6: Un-Common and In-Describable
Value local news? Hopewell Valley counts on MercerMe for daily reporting. But quality journalism takes time, care, and resources—and it only continues with your support. Monthly Supporter $10 A MONTH…
-
MercerMe ArchiveNews
A Cut Throat New Year: A Recap of MercerMe’s Seriously Competitive Cookie Competition
Value local news? Hopewell Valley counts on MercerMe for daily reporting. But quality journalism takes time, care, and resources—and it only continues with your support. Monthly Supporter $10 A MONTH…
-
Events & FeaturesFeaturedMercerMe ArchiveThe Taste Chase
The Taste Chase Goes to David Bradley Chocolatier
Value local news? Hopewell Valley counts on MercerMe for daily reporting. But quality journalism takes time, care, and resources—and it only continues with your support. Monthly Supporter $10 A MONTH…