Fluid Physio, a local physical therapy practice, will be celebrating their first anniversary on November 2 at their Lawrenceville location at the Manors Shopping Mall. Fluid Physio is one of…
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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It’s that time of year again. There’s a crispness in the morning air, leaves are starting to form soft blankets on driveways and yards. Flip-flops and sleeveless shirt have given…
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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 products. So, as you should expect, I grabbed my “Taste Buds” and made my annual pilgrimage to the shrine of swine and all things porkly divine, The 5th Annual Trenton Pork Roll Festival.
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Someone pointed out to me that the timing of Hopewell Restaurant Week was bad. Well, it was obvious that it wasn’t so much the timing that was bad, it was…
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The Taste Chase: Restaurant Week in Hopewell Boro and the IMPOSSIBLE BURGER
Based on that sketchy groundhog’s prediction, we have about two more weeks of the wet, windy, and sporadically snowy-ish weather before we shed our wools and thermal for fleeces and…
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Amphora Design and C.a. Shofed will present the annual Common Threads art exhibition, this year “Common Threads 6: Un-Common and In-Describable,” on Saturday, February 3, 2018 at the Hopewell Valley…
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Happy New Year! Yes, we have reached the end of our first week of the new year complete with two ownow days for those of us with school-aged children. Some…
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“Who can make a sunrise? Sprinkle it with dew. Cover it with chocolate and a miracle of two, the candyman, the candyman, oh the candy man can. The candyman can…
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Local artist C.a. Shofed and Hopewell Valley Vineyards have partnered again — this time to bring the first “Latin Heritage Artist Exhibit” to the Mercer County area. The exhibit will…
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“Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love.” ― Karl Petzke This could have easily been said by Joanne Canady-Brown, owner of The Gingered Peach…