Here’s to a summer of revival and regrowth!
We are approaching the end of a school year and fortunately, things are looking better! Restaurants are operating with increased capacity and foot traffic at other businesses has increased.
With summer just around the corner, we are focusing this issue on something that brings families and friends together – FOOD!
Check our online Restaurant directory compiled especially to help the food lovers explore our LOCAL eateries. www.theconnectionsnj.com/restaurant-directory
Let’s shout it out for our LOCAL businesses!
Our COMMENDS articles highlight LOCAL businesses. In each issue, we feature some of their stories, their expertise, and their vision. We hope that as our valued readers you appreciate us spotlighting their hard work and the faces behind the businesses.
Winner Winner!
Our Warren-Watchung ‘Spot the Fake Ad’ winner is Mary Ann Wood from Watchung. Mary Ann won a gift certificate from Jules’ Closet.
Local artist Steven Mairella adorns the front cover with acrylic on canvas entitled Rosetta’s Tomatoes. One of his artistic objectives is to honor and share his family history and Italian-American heritage, through paintings that evoke emotions, memories, and sensations he experienced growing up.
Steve says, “local sourcing and farm-to-table approaches to food are nothing new to the families and descendants of the southern Italian immigrants of the late 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries. Every year when I was growing up my mother and her sisters would get together in mid-to-late August, to “do the tomatoes”. They would use tomatoes harvested from my Uncle’s large garden, supplemented with a few bushels of tomatoes from the Paterson market. The aroma of the tomatoes and basil bubbling away on the ancient stove in my Grandfather’s basement pervaded the neighborhood and remains to this day one of my most vivid and treasured memories. This particular painting of Cuore di bue (literally, “ox heart”) tomatoes on the vine depict the garden of my friend and distant cousin, Rosetta Constantino.”
- IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY with your cooking prowess. Print out easy-to-use tried and tested RECIPES from our ONLINE RECIPE BOOK. RECIPES
- COUPONS ON THE GO! Have LOCAL coupons handy exactly when you need them. Check our DEALS & STEALS Make it a favorite on your phone and access it readily. DEALS & STEALS
- Join the die-hard fans of our ‘SPOT THE FAKE’ ad contest – look for the fake ad in any of our three magazines and submit it to connectionsnj@gmail.com or play online SPOT THE FAKE
- Find articles on Health & Wellness, Senior Living, Cutting-Edge Medical Technology, Family Law, Travel & more on our Written by industry experts, they are loaded with information and insights. BLOG
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Have a safe and enjoyable summer!
Sincerely,
Robin Fand, Publisher