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The start of 2021 brought some changes to the arts community in Bordentown. One of them was the launching of Bordentown Arts, an organization dedicated to creating, celebrating and raising the awareness of arts and culture in the region. With that came the onset of a new project—a massive, collaborative mural created by several local artists and painted by middle school students. It was an ambitious idea, but Leon Stanley is used to that. “I like collaborating,” he said. “I think I’m pretty good at a lot of things—jack of all trades, master of none. I’m not a visual artist. I think we’ve all seen a lot of ideas that never quite saw the light of day, no matter how great they are, because of obstacles like a lack of organization, financial issues, timing. I think this project, at least, was very much born out of and inspired by that.” The Bordentown Arts Children’s Mural Project was inspired by the turmoil of 2020—the pandemic, social unrest. The organization said in January that it hoped the project would be “a manifestation of Lincoln’s ‘the better angels of our nature.’” The piece will be made up of four 4 ft. x 8 ft. themed panels. Hamilton artist Tom See MurAL, Page 10

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Bordentown wrestler Lexi Mazzella became the program’s first woman wrestler to advance to the state championship last month. She ended the day 3-1 and earned a third place finish.

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This was a season of firsts for Bordentown wrestler Lexi Mazzella. She advanced past the first round of the NJSIAA South Region girls’ wrestling tournament for the first time this year, placing second in the 135-pound division. That led to her state championship debut—the first ever by a member of the Scotties girls’

wrestling team. After a quarterfinal win followed by a loss in the semifinals, Mazzella battled back to finish the day 3-1 and placing third in her weight class. “I was nervous, of course, going into it,” she said. “Winning my first match was a big relief. Losing my second one, it just made me work harder for the next thing I could get, which was third place. From losing last year, it kind of just pushed me to work harder and push my abilities to where they could go.” And she got there—all at

once, Mazzella became the first Bordentown girls’ wrestler to compete and place in the state tournament. Not bad for someone who just started wrestling two years ago. That’s a testament to Mazzella’s work ethic, said coach Jimmy Gill. “I think that’s one of the toughest parts of this sport,” he said. “There aren’t too many sports where if you lose, you get a chance to come back. As coaches, we preach and talk about work ethic, See MAZZELLA, Page 8

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their own quirks and still dear to me nonetheless. As May approaches, I’m finding myself thinking more and more about the moms in my life. My goofy mom and generous step-mom. I’m lucky to still have two healthy, active, hilarious grandmothers. My aunts and cousins who have all had a massive influence on my upbringing, some of them before they even had children of their own. And therein lies the beauty of Mother’s Day. However you choose to celebrate, whoever you choose to honor— that’s entirely up to you. A mother is not a one-size-fits-all concept. We’re allowed to dictate what a mother is to us. So this month, let the special women in your life know that you care about them. Thank them—for their influence, for their wisdom, for their humor, for their love—however you see fit. It’s the least we can do after a lifetime of lessons. Happy Mother’s Day, Bordentown! I hope it’s a great one.

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SITE continued from Page 1 parking lot. The plant, which closed in August 2014, was purchased by Hamiltonbased Modern Recycled Spaces later that year. Plans have really only started to move for ward in the fall of 2019, L ynch said, although the city and Modern Recycled Spaces had been talking for several years. The developer originally proposed that the project, called Cranberry Park, would include 296 loft-style apartments, creative spaces and commercial tenants, including plans for a brew pub or restaurant. Some of the existing structures were to be demolished. Now, those plans are up in the air. At the time, ideal tenants included a brewery/restaurant, a yoga studio and co-working and office space. Lynch said in 2019 that he hoped to see farmer’s markets and outdoor events in the future. The developers were aiming to retain the original brick structure, as well as restoring the site’s old tower, which was a big draw for the city at the time. “This is huge,” Lynch told the Current in 2019. “We’re really excited. This can help turn us toward the next 50 years, a nice element to help our downtown businesses.” While the future of the site is uncertain, the city remains hopeful that something like the original vision will end up in Bordentown. The property is currently zoned for 50 percent com-

The original plan for the old Ocean Spray site, laid out by developer Modern Recycled Spaces, included residential housing, shopping and dining spaces.

mercial use and 50 percent residential use, so officials are confident that it won’t be home to another warehouse. The last plan was crafted in part with input from residents community groups, and locals hope that will be the case this time around, too. “We’re really excited about it,” Lynch said in October 2019. “It’s a good fit for a one-square-mile town. I think we can handle the volume. Our

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MAZZELLA continued from Page 1 but ultimately, you can’t coach it and preach it. That’s the kind of thing that comes from within. We can guide her, but she has that passion and mentality. Win or lose, it’s on to the next best thing. What happened in the past is out of the way, and you can’t change it, but you can influence the rest of your results that day.” Mazzella first joined the wrestling team last season—her brother, Sammy, was an accomplished Bordentown wrestler. He and then-senior Arianna Menna pushed her to give the sport a shot. “Seeing [Menna’s] success, it just made me want to try it out,” she said. “Watching Sammy grow up wrestling was also a huge inspiration.” Also a soccer player, Mazzella transitioned to the mat after the fall season. It was a big change, she said. “You can watch it all day long, but until you get into the room and start practicing, it’s a whole different world,” she said. “Even little things like your stance or a shot are so hard to get used to. After a few practices, you start to get used to it. It’s not easy for a first-timer.” Clearly, though, she adapted. But that’s just how Mazzella operates, Gill said. “Persistence is a big thing,” he said. “Drive is hard to teach. You can see it in her as a student and watching her from across the field as a boys’ soccer coach, as well. That’s the mindset that separates her from others. Going from a newer wrestler, to an average wrestler, and then to the state tournament, that has a lot to do with being persistent and being able to push losses or bad results to one side and continue to move in a better direction after those results.” Some of that mentality does come from soccer, Mazzella said. The sports obviously have their differences, but she takes ideas from one and applies them to the other. “I think being relentless is one of

Bordentown wrestler Lexi Mazzella placed second at the NJSIAA regional tournament April 3.

the words my soccer coach always taught me,” she said. “Being relentless in both sports leads to good results and gets you where you want to be. Just keep pushing. Even if you lose, keep going.” That was especially important for Mazzella and teammates this year— after last season was cut short, they had to make up for a lot of lost time. “I was pretty shocked at [regions] because last year, I lost in the first round,” she said. “Not having much experience on top of a shortened season, it was a great feeling. It was weird at first being able to actually wrestle and have a season and postseason and everything. Just being able to get on the mat every single day to practice and compete in matches, it felt like you can’t take anything for granted anymore. Making every day worth it was the main goal.”

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As for next year, Mazzella would like to return to the regional and state championships again, and maybe capture a state title. She and Gill also hope to see the girls’ wrestling program continue to grow, not only at the high school, but in the district as a whole. Mazzella has been recruiting friends the same way Menna did with her. “Next year, I hope we can get more girls out and just bring more friends or sisters, whoever we can get, maybe other teammates from other sports,” she said. “It’ll be great to have a full lineup. That would be awesome. Starting from the rec ages, it would be great to get younger girls to start wrestling. Hopefully going onto mid-

dle school and high school is the goal from there.” Gill agreed. “It’s been great,” he said. “We’re really big on it. The administration, the athletic director and everyone in the building have been huge on trying to grow girls’ wrestling. I’m a huge advocate for it. When Arianna Menna became the first girl to place in regions, that opened doors for us to expand the program. Since then, we’ve had two to five girls each season come out. Hopefully with the success of Lexi, it’ll grow even more.”

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Discovering American cuisine Writer takes readers on cross-country food journey in book By Sam Sciarrotta

David Page has a long history of going places. The writer and producer has followed jobs to Wichita, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix and Chicago. As a news producer for NBC, he bounced between London and Frankfurt, Budapest and Berlin, Africa and the Middle East. His travels eventually led him back to the States, where he formed his own production company and did work for Al Roker on the Food Network—but he’d soon be back on the road. Page pitched and created Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, the Guy Fieri road trip-style food reality show. Now, though, the Long Beach Island resident is following a new path. Page’s book, Food Americana, is out this month. It covers his crosscountry journey to find out what dishes and recipes make up the Amer-

ican menu—what we eat as a country and why we eat it. Six09 editor Sam Sciarrotta talked to Page about his career, food and the perfect Jersey tomato. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Six09: What is “Food Americana “to you? What is American cuisine? David Page: Well, as I say in the book, American cuisine is a bit of many other cultures’ or countries’ cuisines modified to our palates or preferences and melded together. Six09: That also kind of sounds like an accurate description of just New Jersey, too. I think the intersection of food and New Jersey culture is pretty powerful. DP: It is, although day-to-day cuisine in New Jersey actually goes in many cases far beyond what I’m defining as American cuisine. New Jersey eaters, in many cases, I think are more adventurous and are open to cuisines from other countries that have not yet been accepted as a day-to-day part of ours. I refer specifically, for example, to the Ironbound area of Newark, where the Portugese food is terrific,

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David Page pivoted from producer to author to write Food Americana, a book about what we eat as a country and why we eat it.

food from Peru. Those remain in the minds of most Americans, I think, still “other,” as opposed to sushi or Chinese food or something along those lines, that are so common all across the country that they’re now thought of as American. Six09: Have you always been interested in food on this level? It seems to be kind of a central theme of your career. DP: I didn’t get into food in this way until NBC sent me to Europe. I worked in Europe, Africa and the Middle East and began to realize the national and especially regional differences in food based on tradition and societal makeup and, of course, the availability of specific ingredients. It was there, as I was trying to understand a number of other cultures, that I realized that the gateway to those other cultures is the food. I had some amusing experiences, such as, on my first trip to Vienna, I asked the support staff there to take me where they like to go and eat. And they took me to a Texas ribs joint. Six09: Why were you in Europe to begin with? DP: I’ve been a journalist in one form or another since I was 15 or 16. I started working on the radio when I was in high school. I followed jobs around the country—went from radio to television in Wichita, Kansas, worked in a number of local television stations in Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, and eventually got picked up by NBC and placed in their Chicago bureau as a producer. After a couple of years there, they sent me to Europe, first to London and then, at my request, I moved to Frankfurt. The London bureau was awfully big and, frankly, one plane flight too far from the action. In Frankfurt, which was a smaller bureau, it was easier to get things done. We could

call New York and say “We’re on the way” before London could get someone to Heathrow to get to us to get to where we were going. I worked in Frankfurt for quite awhile, and then I moved to Budapest in advance of what were clearly going to be the impending communist revolutions. I covered the Hungarian revolution and the collapse of the government of Czechoslovakia. Then, I moved back to the states and became a show producer on the weekend Today Show. I ended up as the senior investigative producer of 20/20 over at ABC, and then as a line producer at GMA. While I was there in the lifestyle arena of Good Morning America, I ended up putting a number of food segments on the air, including segments with Emeril (Lagasse). I enjoyed it very much. When I ended up leaving network television and forming my own production company to try to make a buck or two, on the one hand, I had taken a great new step. On the other hand, I was technically unemployed. So, I called Al Roker who had actually worked for me when I ran the weekend Today Show. He had a production company, so I called and asked if he needed any freelance work. I ended up doing work for him for the Food Network and later began to pitch them directly for projects of my own. Six09: Is that how you ended up with Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives? DP: At first, I got absolutely nowhere. It was a festival of rejection, until one day, I’m on the phone with a development executive who was kind enough to take my calls but kept saying “No.” She said to me, “Don’t you have anything else on diners?” I had done a documentary on diner history for Al, and I said, “Sure, I’m developing this show called Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” She said, “We have a development meeting on Tuesday. Get me a writeup by Monday.” The problem was I was not developing a show called Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. I had just pulled that phrase out of whatever part of my anatomy. I spent the next few days working feverishly, pitched the show, and they picked up a one-hour special, I think to keep Guy Fieri’s face on the air while they tried to figure out what to do with him in primetime. He had won their Food Network Star competition. They wanted to try to make something of him. They had a couple of very big names working on proposals for a primetime vehicle for him. Much to their surprise, when those proposals came in, they didn’t like them. The specials had done well, and they decided to take a chance

Poached black cod with Jiu Nian Lee’s spring asparagus is served at the Eight Tables restaurant, which is featured in the “Made in America—Our Love Affair with Chinese Food” chapter of Food Americana. (Photo by Robert Birnbach.)

on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives as a series, although they told me in the first couple of weeks when the first couple of episodes scored very well, they did confide in me, “This thing’s not going to have legs. There just aren’t that many restaurants.” Six09: Did you ever imagine that it would explode the way that it did? DP: I had no idea. I had been trying for quite awhile to land a show of my own. At that point, the initial feeling of success was just getting something bought and put on the air. I did not expect it to become the national phenomenon it did, although, at the risk of sounding egotistical, I had a deep belief in doing the show in a certain way, a way that held to my editorial standards, the same ones that I used when I was running investigations on 20/20. I had a certain vision for how to cut it, how to put it together, how to make it look. The fact that it became such a big hit in retrospect, some of it is lightning in a bottle. Some of it is that Guy is an incredible television character. But I’m very delighted to see that the show that became hit was the show that I put together according to a certain vision. Six09: It does seem that the show and Food Americana kind of share some common themes. Did the show help you segue into writing? Did you take anything from the show with you while you were writing the book? DP: Yes—a continually growing appreciation for the role that real food plays in America, and the role it plays, especially brought out doing this pandemic, in bringing us together. It’s been more than a year now, and I think people are yearning to sit across a table with each other and just talk. More than anything, I think I was pleasantly surprised by the nature of people who put their all into independently owned restaurants. That community has just been massively hit by lack of business, and many, many independent restaurants have gone out of business.

Six09: Tell me a little bit about the intersection of food and pop culture. Why do you think people are so fascinated with shows like Triple D, things like your book, firing off hot takes about food? What allows that to really grab people? DP: The invention of the smartphone. We all have cameras. There has been a “foodie culture” for sometime, not a word I like, but there’s been a core group of people who use food to make them part of the cool crowd. “I understand the difference between this dish and that.” as we spend more of our lives talking to people online, it makes perfect sense to start posting our pictures. As for interest in it on television, clearly, that was the creation of the celebrity chef because, at its heart, TV is about hanging out with people you want to hang out with. Food is a constant in our lives. We have to eat. We have to interact with food. I think it’s a topic that has continual legs. Six09: What was the research process for Food Americana? Were you inter viewing people? I’m sure you tried a lot of amazing dishes. DP: First, I read more than 200 books. That number is not a joke. I read some cover-to-cover. Others I used as references for specific points. I talked to a remarkable number of people, and it started with food historians and academics, because I really wanted to understand the structure behind each food and how each food developed to the place it is today without making it a boring history lesson. To make sure it wasn’t a history lesson, I sought out people vibrantly involved in where food stands today and told the stories through them as much as possible. Six09: Did you travel? DP: I did some traveling—one big trip, especially, to San Francisco, where I was able to meet Cecilia Chiang, probably the most influential voice in Chinese cooking in America over the last century, in her home just months before she passed away. She was 100. See AMERICANA, Page 6

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I also went to pizza school out there. I went to a $1,000 Chinese dinner which, thankfully, we had been invited to by the owner of the restaurant, Eight Tables, which is an example of the developments in Chinese food in America right now. What he does is a sort of hybrid of the tastes and flavors of China reworked into incredible new dishes. It’s phenomenal. I went to an oyster farm on the Delaware Bay. I went to the 2019 Memphis in May barbecue competition, which many in the barbecue world consider the Super Bowl, to shadow a team that had won the previous year and was trying to repeat—the folks from The Shed down in Mississippi. If you want to find out if they won, you can buy the book. In many other places, I used freelance journalists to experience things that I could not get to, such as going out on a lobster boat or visiting a sushi restaurant in an Oklahoma gas station. I was lucky that most of the big events, like Memphis in May and the

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ing the blue pen strikeouts and additions as she was compiling what would become the most influential menu in Chinese food history in America. Pizza school with Tony Gemignani, he is a remarkable figure and one of the leading lights in american pizza. That was eye-opening and absolutely delightful. I also enjoyed Memphis in May. The Orrison family, owners of The Shed, have been delightful, really lovely people since we first talked to them for Diners early on. I was welcomed with open arms and got to eat some of the finest pork I’ve ever had in my life. Six09: What are some of your favorite Jersey restaurants or dishes? DP: I actually included LaBamba, a Mexican restaurant here on LBI, because they make an incredible mole. The owners are from Puebla, which is one of the mole centrals in Mexico. Their mole on chicken is unbelievable. I love the pizza at the Star Tavern in Orange. I used to live up in Glen Ridge. It is a perfect example of what a bar pie should be. It’s just something special. I love the various international restaurants in Newark. I love going to that area and deciding what kind of food I’m going to have. There’s another restaurant here on LBI that’s extraordinary, The Gables. It’s in an old house, and they do food that would be competitive with the priciest restaurant in New York City. Just remarkable, high-end, not prohibitively expensive, really, really fine cooking. Six09: How long have you lived on LBI? DP: We’ve had a house here for 25 years or so. When my daughter went to college, which was about 10 years ago, we moved here fullt-ime because it’s a great place to live, especially in the winter when the traffic lights are blinking and the speed limit goes back up. Six09: Did you grow up in New Jersey? DP: I was born in New York, grew up in western Massachusetts. I will admit something ugly. When my wife and I were newly married and living in New York City, she said, “We need to go someplace for vacation this summer. How about the Jersey Shore?” I said, “New Jersey?” My only view of New Jersey was driving into New York to see my grandparents and passing refinery after refinery. The air smelled like something noxious. I said, “What are you talking about?” She said, “You don’t know New Jersey.” We came down here to LBI and rented half a house for a couple of weeks, and I was hooked. I also firmly believe, having been lucky enough to dine all over Europe, Africa and the Middle East, that Long Beach Island still produces one of the finest single food items on the face of the Earth. I believe that the scallops brought in here are absolutely the pinnacle. They’re remarkable. Six09: What about the scallops makes them so good? DP: Well, they’re sweet as hell, firm, if you cook them up nice and simple, just

The pulled pork sandwich from The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint, which David Page says is the best he’s ever had. (Photo courtesy of The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint.)

a little butter. By the way, people flip scallops. You shouldn’t flip scallops. They’re small enough that once you’ve gotten enough heat to caramelize a crust on one side, take them out of the pan. They’ll continue cooking on their own. One of the things I hope people get a sense of from the book is that the best food is the food of a place. When I go somewhere, I want to eat what they produce, that they have been cooking for years. We have great food on LBI. Tuna, monkfish, terrific crab. Locality has become a buzzword of food trendiness, but it isn’t trendiness, in my view, if you’re smart enough to eat what’s best where it came from. For example, most people eat tomatoes that have been genetically modified to be perfectly round so they can fit into uniform packing containers. I prefer an ugly, misshapen Jersey tomato, which came out of the ground not that far from me and which I will put up against any of the best tomatoes from Italy. A good Jersey tomato, which is only available around a certain time of year, is a remarkable experience. Six09: That’s exactly why my mom and stepdad grow their own. DP: You get a good Jersey tomato, some fresh mozzarella, olive oil, basil, and you’ve got a caprese to kill for. It’s just a wonderful thing. I was in Iraq for NBC before the first Gulf War, and not a lot of people wanted to go in. The hours were long, the work was very difficult, the conditions were terrible. By the time the government kicked me out, I was fried. I asked the Rome bureau to book me back to Frankfurt with a layover in Rome, specifically at the Hassler Hotel. It was the kind of place that was used to odd requests. I asked the bureau to tell them that I hadn’t had a fresh vegetable in weeks, and that after I checked in, could they please deliver a caprese to my room. Nanoseconds after checking in, there’s a rap on the door. Room service comes in with a massive silver tray. He puts it down and takes off an equally massive cover, and there must be 30 pieces of caprese. I said to myself, “I’ll never eat all of this.” And guess what, I did. There was tomato glop dripping down my chin, but I felt like I was back in the world.

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Pennington got a welcome and unexpected jolt last summer when Doria Roberts and Calavino Donati popped up with The Pig + the Pit, a new restaurant offering a unique mix of southern and vegan cuisine. The response was so strong at times that they sometimes had to take the phone off the hook — or more accurately, disable the online ordering form — to keep up with the high demand. The Pig + the Pit was the first business that the couple opened after they moved from Atlanta to New Jersey at the end of 2019. This year they have introduced a second, and this time it’s a concept that they brought with them. Tipple and Rose Tea Parlor and Some of the many varieties of tea on display and available for purchase Apothecary, at 12 N. Main St., opened at Tipple and Rose Tea Parlor and Apothecary. in February, just a few doors down from The Pig + the Pit. In Atlanta, Tipple and Rose became the country for traditional English-style day when she can recreate the tea parlor experience for customers in the new known for its selection of whole and afternoon tea service. Because of the ongoing coronavirus space. loose leaf teas and its scones and macarUntil that day, Tipple and Rose is ons, as well as for its tea-brewing acces- pandemic, Tipple and Rose isn’t seating sories, honey, candles, bath and body customers for afternoon tea. However, it offering take-out as well as tea-service products and more. It also gained rec- does have just about everything else it catering. For special occasions, like ognition from Travel and Leisure maga- had become known for in Atlanta — and Mothers Day, the store will have gift zine in 2018 as one of the best places in Roberts says she looks forward to the boxes and other specials.

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Everything available in the shop skews toward the artisanal and the small-batch. Roberts makes the scones herself. Honey comes from Zach and Zoe Sweet Bee Farm in Hunterdon County or Savannah Bee Company in Savannah, Georgia. Candles come from Yo Soy Candle of Portland, Oregon and Wax Apothecary of Idyllwild, California, among other purveyors. There are handmade kitchen towels from The Coin Laundry in Bozeman, Montana and room sprays from Commonwealth Provisions of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Also popular has been their selection of nonalcoholic gins and whiskeys. Roberts sees herself as a curator, filling the store with boutique items that she likes that make homes homier or that would make great gifts. But the heart of the business remains the teas, of which they are some 140 kinds available for purchase. There are black teas, green teas, white teas, oolong teas, herbal teas, fruit teas, chai — basically any kind of tea one could want. Each tea on the shelves is accompanied by an ingredient list with tasting notes, and customers are welcome to take a whiff of any that they think might be to their liking.

anybody was going to come. I thought I’d be sitting in the corner, drinking tea and writing in my journal. But we ended up getting really busy, really fast.” Afternoon tea service — often (improperly) referred to as high tea by Americans — turned out to be just what Atlanta was looking for. As is traditional, Tipple and Rose’s afternoon tea would be served with three courses on a tiered platter. One tier for savories and sandwiches, one for scones and one for sweets, including macarons. “I have to say it was a lot of fun, just a nice afternoon,” Roberts says. “You could come in and have a quiet lunch in an elegant space. That’s what we wanted, to create something a little different, but still affordable and accessible.” By 2018, the tea parlor was successful enough to gain national recognition from Travel and Leisure Magazine as an afternoon tea destination. But in December 2019, after Roberts’ mother had suffered a heart attack and a stroke, RobCandles and teapots on display at erts and Donati closed all their Atlanta restaurants and moved north to be Tipple and Rose. nearer to her. Only once Roberts’ mother was sufGreg Powers The store also sells a variety of tea- ficiently recovered did Roberts and pots, tea presses, infusers and other Donati start looking for a place in the HIC#13VH10598000 HIC#13VH06880500 supplies designed to help make the per- area suitable for starting their restauCOMPLETED STONEsays FIREPLACE rant group back up OUTDOOR again. Roberts fect cup of tea. Occupancy is limited toRECENTLY 10 customers because of the pandemic, that after they took a look at the culiand masks are also required, but Rob- nary landscape in the area, they decided erts says it is possible to smell the teas that Tipple and Rose would be the easithrough any but the most heavy-duty of est concept to transition from Atlanta to New Jersey. They even trucked all the masks. Shoppers who do not feel knowledge- decor up from Georgia with plans to re• ReNew Masonry Patio design and construction able enough to choose teas on their own create the old shop. Then Covid-19 hit, throwing everycan ask for assistance from a member • 25 years doing the same work-masonry design, construction, of Tipple and Rose’s trained staff. “We thing up in the air. Instead of going restoration, and repair always tell people there’s somebody ahead with Tipple and Rose, Donati • Our patios and brick paver driveways are guaranteed not to settle here willing to follow you around, or not, and Roberts chose to sublet the former and if you have a question or need a little Eclair Café at 20 N. 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Loaves, sandwiches and more at Bread Boutique By Joe Emanski

Princeton’s carbohydrate-indulging population welcomed Eclair Café when it opened on Witherspoon Street in July 2019. Not a year later, the French-inspired bakery-bistro was gone, a casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic. Owner-operator couple Marie-Mathilde Laplanche and Ron Suzuki shuttered both their Princeton and Main Street Pennington locations after the pandemic began, never to reopen. Both locations are once again occupied: the Pennington store is now The Pig and the Pit barbecue (see story, page 8), and since February the Witherspoon Street location has been the home of Bread Boutique, the latest venture from the steadily growing Genesis Hospitality Group suite of restaurants, bakeries and cafés. Hamilton-based Genesis is the force behind Bread Boutique, Chez Alice in Palmer Square, the Perch at Peacock Inn, Proof Pizza on Nassau Street, DiBartolo Bakery in Collingswood, and more. Genesis is also the owner of the building at 41 Witherspoon Street vacated by Eclair Café. But Eben Copple, culinary director of Genesis, says that after Eclair Café closed, the group decided to make use of the storefront rather than lease it out again. Genesis operates a central commissary in Hamilton where baked goods are made every day for all their restaurants, under the watchful eye of lead baker Ernesto Gonzalez, formerly of Eataly in New York.

Bread Boutique on Witherspoon Street in Princeton offers 12 to 15 different loaves of bread and eight types of rolls each day. “Ernesto is very talented. He makes great bread. We knew we could handle more production than we could produce for the restaurants. Eclair Café left due to Covid, so we found the space empty, and thought it would be the right size for us to put together a retail front,” Copple says. Bread Boutique sells a variety of bread loaves and rolls, including regular baguettes, seeded baguettes, sourdough bread, focaccia, multigrain and more. “Every day, we probably have 12 to 15 varieties of whole loaves of bread

and eight varieties of rolls,” Copple says. “It changes as the week goes on, but there’s a pretty steady core of products that we have regularly.” The café rotates in other breads like zucchini bread, challah and babka, seasonally or on weekends. Also regularly on offer are their viennoisseries like croissants, pain au chocolat, and cheese danish, which Copple says have been very popular. Bread Boutique also does a brisk sandwich business. The shop has 10 to 12 different sandwiches available for purchase

every day, including breakfast sandwiches like pork roll, egg and cheese on a croissant ($7). Other sandwiches on offer include roast beef and cheddar on baguette ($9), cured meats and mozzarella on focaccia ($10), pastrami on rye ($10) and egg salad on brioche ($7). Soups, egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad are also available by the half pint and pint. Witherspoon Street has become quite the destination for carb loaders in the past decade. Terra Momo Bread Company (formerly Witherspoon Bread Company), House of Cupcakes and Olive’s of Princeton already offered a wide variety of baked goods and have loyal followings. But Copple says business has been steady, especially on weekends, and he says more than 40% of customers return. “It’s humbling to see,” he says. “We had an idea for something that we liked and it’s really great to see people enjoying what we’re putting out there.” Copple says this may be just the start of something as far as both Bread Boutique and Genesis’ baking operations go. “I was a chef for many years in the area, and there aren’t really any local bread wholesalers selling high quality artisan bread any more,” he says. “That’s something that we’re really looking into, because we have the capacity to do it.” Bread Boutique, 41 Witherspoon St., Princeton NJ 08540. Web: bread-boutique.com. Phone: (609) 423-2096. Open Saturday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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plies. The project will hopefully be completed sometime this spring, and it will be installed in the new Bordentown City Municipal Complex, set for the former site of the Divine Word Mission. “Our goal in undertaking this project is to have artists, but more especially our children, in their own special way, memorialize this incredibly unique and demanding time in our history,” Stanley said. “And then have the work inspire and serve as a reminder of the values that, as a community, helped carry us through this dark, tumultuous and uncertain time.” The mural isn’t Stanley’s first Bordentown venture. He has been involved with the Cranberry Festival since 2017 and is generally an idea kind of guy—they’re the subject of lots of dinnertime conversations between Stanley and his wife, CJ Mugavero, who own the Artful Deposit in Bordentown City and is the president of the Downtown Bordentown Association. “I might have an idea for a project, maybe it would come and go,” he said. “Finally, right toward the end of the year, I was thinking about this. She said, ‘Leon, do it. You don’t need anybody’s permission. If you want to do it, it’s a good idea. Figure it out and do it.’ “So we went to the drawing board. I look at this as a four-legged thing, like a table. All four elements need to stand up and be a table. We need artists. We

One portion of the collaborative children’s mural—Thomas Kelly’s “Koinobori”—is currently in progress. The mural will be housed at the new municipal complex.

need children. We need money. We need a location. Where’s it going to go? Any artist that creates something wants to share it with the world. We bisected it and figured it out.” This was the perfect project for Stanley to spearhead, he said. “These are the things that I enjoy doing,” he said. “I’m passionate about them. It’s not about me. I’m just the ringleader, and sometimes that’s just

able to pass the reins over to Kelly, Petty, Martzloff, Davila and the kids was satisfying. It’s been an exciting few months for everyone involved, he said. “The parents of the kids are so excited,” he said. “The kids are excited. I think especially in this crazy time that we’ve lived through, that’s a big part of what we need. We don’t know when things are going to get back to normal, but we can look forward to this. I’m just trying to do positive shit when the world seems completely crazy at times. And that’s exactly what Stanley hopes the future holds for Bordentown Arts. He’s aiming for other collaborative projects, like a crowdsourced holiday record—anything that can bring Bordentown City and the arts closer together. “Bordentown Arts is an arts council of one, but obviously this is a hell of a lot more than just me,” Stanley said. “I’m just the idea guy. We wouldn’t be anywhere without the four artists, 30 kids, the business community. We couldn’t do it without these people. It might just be a community art project, but it’s been inspiring at times because I think it really shows the resilience of us as a species.” For more information about Bordentown Arts, visit facebook.com/ bordentown-arts-105807271421989.

what it takes. Even taking that idea forward, if someone came to me with an idea, I say, ‘Let’s figure it out.’ I don’t want it to just be my ideas. As this thing hopefully evolves and has some kind of track record, somebody might come to us and go, ‘I have this really crazy idea.’ And we can work on it.” Contact SAM SCIARROTTA: ssciarrotta@ He views himself as a facilitator, communitynews.org, (609) 396-1511, ext. and he values collaboration, so being 121, facebook.com/samsciarrotta1

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Bordentown duo leads Notre Dame baseball squad By Rich Fisher

In a spring high school sports season where few coaches know what kind of talent they have returning due to last year’s COVID-19 shutdown, Notre Dame’s Joe Drulis is among the fortunate when it comes to pitching. The Irish are set with their No. 1 and No. 2 starters, who are both righthanders, both hail from Bordentown and will both pitch in college. Gavin Martin returns as a threeyear starter and will be the staff ace, while Josh Petrone looks like a solid No. 2 man after having a strong summer season with the Sportika Gallagher travel team. Martin is headed for the University of Massachusetts and Petrone will pitch at Stockton State. “They’re both great kids,” Drulis said. “They’re respectful, they get it. They understand as pitchers you’re gonna have ups and downs and you gotta weather the storm and worry about the next pitch. You’ve gotta have the memory of a goldfish, which is 15 seconds.” There are some things they would like to remember, however, considering their track records. For instance, Martin wouldn’t mind recalling this season’s opening-day start on Apr. 20, in which he allowed two hits, no runs and two walks while striking out 10 in four innings as the Irish beat Steinert 13-2. Martin has been known as a hitter

for most of his career, and won the Mercer County American Legion League’s Rookie of the Year for Bordentown Post 26 as a sophomore. Much of that was on the strength of his hitting, as Gavin won the league batting title. But he has come on as a hurler the past two years. Stuck behind some outstanding pitchers as a sophomore, Martin pitched just 7.2 innings and allowed one earned run despite giving up eight walks. When last season got shut down, he focused on pitching over the summer with his New Jersey Niners club team out of Manasquan. “He just exploded over the summer,” Drulis said. “My coach with the Niners really helped me with my training and mechanics,” Martin said. “Turns out I’ve got a lot of velocity on my fastball and a lot of movement on my curveball.” But he’s hardly done developing his mechanics. “I always feel there’s always someone better than me so I’ve got to keep working,” Martin said. “Just having only a fastball is not gonna beat teams, so I have to develop other pitches. I’m coming into this season with confidence but you always gotta work hard.” Drulis was pleasantly surprised when Martin returned this year and his fastball topped out at 92 miles per hour.

Gavin Martin and Josh Petrone are the Notre Dame baseball team’s top two starting pitchers. (Photo by Rich Fisher.)

“He’s just gotten better and better,” the coach said. “He has an excellent curveball, and an outstanding change-up. He’s got the whole package. That’s why he’s going to a Division One program, because he’s such a good pitcher.” Martin credits his Niners coaches for getting his name out to college recruiters. He also received attention from St. Joe’s, Richmond and Davidson before accepting an academic

scholarship to UMass. There were no baseball scholarships available due to the seniors who missed last year returning for their extra year granted by the NCAA. “That really helped,” Martin said. “My parents always said academics would help you out and since I was young I focused on academics. UMass has a good business school and I want to be a business major and be part of sports management. So I feel they can give me a good education, and that’s important.” Gavin began his baseball career with the Hamilton Little Lads and continued with the Hamilton-Northern Burlington Babe Ruth program, which he helped get to a World Series. His first year with a Bordentown organization is when he had his standout rookie year with Post 26. “I knew a bunch of the older kids and just knowing everybody on the team helped me out there,” Martin said. “And the coaches were awesome. It was a really fun year.” It ended early for Martin, however, as he had to leave for Louisiana to play in a high-level tournament with his travel team. “I missed most of the playoff games,” he said. “That was tough, after playing all season with both teams. I love both teams and it was hard to make a decision, but I had made the commitment to go to Louisiana.” Martin will do more than pitch this

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