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‘What is the best day of your life?’ Lawrence resident appears on ‘Jeopardy!’ By DANi SAKrAN AND BiLL SANserViNO

Lawrence Township resident Amy Rey dreamed almost her entire life of appearing on the game show Jeopardy! She finally got the opportunity, but then the COVID19 pandemic hit. Then Alex Trebek, the show’s long time host, died. Despite those setbacks, she

remains positive about her appearance and that attitude has helped her make the most out of her appearance. Rey appeared on the April 7 episode of the show, which was guest hosted by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rogers—a longtime fan of the show. She finished in third place. Because she was appearing on the show during the pandemic, she wasn’t allowed to bring her family and there was no audience. Above all, the most heartbreaking thing was the death of Trebek, and the fact that she never got a chance to

meet him because her appearance was delayed from when it was originally scheduled. Trebek, who hosted the show for 37 seasons since its revival in 1984, lost his battle with pancreatic cancer last November. “Originally when I was supposed to be on last year, I would have met Alex,” she said “Obviously I was very disappointed—hear tbroken really—that Alex passed away, and I did not get a chance to meet him.” Her experience on the show was unlike that of other past contestants due to the See REy, Page 4

When Lana Mueller embarked on a career as a dental hygienist after graduating college, little did she realize the circuitous route her life would take. Now, at age 73, she is retiring from the Lawrence Public School District after having worked there for many decades. Her retirement is effective at the beginning of May. “Never did I dream I would live in New Jersey,” she said. “Now, we’ve been here the longest of anywhere we’ve ever lived.” Mueller has worked for the LTPS since 1995—most of the time as operations manager. In that role, she worked closely with the district’s superintendents and also served as its communications director. When she first went to work for the district it was a parttime position as a secretary to the instructional supervisors. “I was actually physically located in the assistant superintendent’s office, who at that time was Bruce McGraw, and I also assisted his secretary,” she said. In 2001, Mueller was selected to fill the position of assistant to the superintendent, a job which ultimately evolved into operations manager. The oldest of four children, Mueller was born in the Saint Louis area and was the only one of her siblings to go to college. Her father worked for a

lumber company for some 40 years, and her mother was a homemaker for most of that time. She attended the University of Missouri at Kansas City and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in dental hygiene. She got her license after graduation and then worked as a dental hygienist for a number of years, before moving to Denver, Colorado, and meeting her husband, Jonathan. After the two married, the couple had their three children in Denver, where they lived for 14 years. Jonathan changed jobs and the family lived in southern California for seven years before moving to Lawrence Township in 1993 after another job change. Mueller’s children are now grown to adulthood. Two of them graduated from Lawrence High School, and the third graduated from a high school in California. The Muellers lived in Lawrence until last July, when they sold their house in anticipation of moving west after she retires to be close to her youngest daughter and her husband, who live in South Jordan, Utah. “I had always wanted to move back to Colorado when we retire, but Utah’s pretty similar, so that’s why we’re going to go there,” Mueller said. “We knew we would get out of New Jersey, but we thought we’d just go to Pennsylvania because of the high taxes in New Jersey.” Meanwhile, the LTPS Board of Education appointed Eshaya Draper to fill Mueller’s position at its April 21 meeting. He started on April 27. Prior to joining LTPS, Draper orchestrated aspects See MUELLER, Page 6

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REy continued from Page 1 pandemic. Even the smallest things were affected by COVID. “You have to do your own makeup, because they can’t touch you,” Rey said. “You have to bring your own food and drink.” Despite all of this, Rey said it was a “dream” come true from the minute she walked in. Her best friend had appeared on Jeopardy! three years ago and told Rey to enjoy her time there. “My whole goal was to enjoy all of this in the moment,” she said. “I told myself I was going to enjoy it, and I really, really did. It was an adventure 100%. I didn’t expect to win. I didn’t care about winning. I believe it was one of the best days of my life.” Rey, 45, who’s been married to her husband, Bert, for 17 years, earned an undergraduate degree in psychology and statistics from James Madison University in Virginia and a master’s in social psychology from Rutgers. After graduation, she pursued a career in market research, which she said is related psychology and social psychology. “I do a lot of surveys and do focus groups and in-depth interviews trying to understand reactions to different products and concepts that I test for my clients,” said Rey, who is an executive vice president at Zeldis Research Associates, a market research firm in Pennington. Growing up, Rey’s family members had always been fans of Jeopardy! and she said it has always been a one of her dreams to appear on the show. So much so that she has been studying and taking the test to qualify for Jeopardy! for around 10 years. The application process is a long and difficult one. The potential contestants start off with an online test. If they pass the test, they’re then invited to the audition stage, where they compete in a mock game. They then have to wait up to 18 months to hear back from the show’s team to find out if they are chosen to appear. “You don’t know if you passed it or not,” she said. “You have no idea what your status is. They don’t tell you that.” It was actually her second time

attempting to be on the show. During the first, which took place around five or six years ago, she passed the test and moved onto the audition, but never received a callback. In April 2019 she auditioned again, this time in Washington D.C. She received the good news in March 2020 that she had qualified for the show, but production shut down due to COVID shortly thereafter. Her appearance was delayed almost a year. Although she was disappointed, the show’s crew reassured her that she would appear once everything was under control with the pandemic. While she waited, she began the process of studying to prepare for her appearance. Contestants can be asked questions on literally any subject from any time period since the beginning of human history. Rey, however, had a few techniques to help her study more efficiently. “So there’s a lot of Jeopardy! groups online,” she said. “There’s a site called J-boards, which is a discussion group. There’s a subreddit on Jeopardy! So I became part of those and kind of got a sense of what are the best, most asked, finite topics that I could study.” In addition to regular study techniques, Rey rewatched various episodes of Jeopardy! posted on J-Archive and made note cards on select topics. She would also stand in her living room and pretend she was on the show in order to test her reflexes and knowledge of random topics while her 14-year-old son, Isaac, scored her. Rey said that despite all her preparation, she could have done more while she waited. “What I should have done was spent all that time studying, because I had way more notice than anyone else has. “Usually, you have about a month between when they call you and they want you to come. I had like a year, but after the first month, I was like, ‘I don’t want to study. I don’t know when this is gonna happen,’ and so I kind of stopped until I got the call again.” That call eventually came and her appearance was set to air on April 7. The show is taped in advance at Sony Studios in Culver City, Califor-

nia, and they film five shows a day, two days a week. Rey said that although all contestants receive something for appearing on the show—third place receives $1,000, the amount she spent was in order to appear on the show was greater than her winnings. “I spent more than $1,000 on my trip from New Jersey to California, and you have to go out an extra day because of the COVID testing,” she said.” So there was another extra hotel day and for the rental car.” Despite the competitiveness of the show, Rey said the atmosphere was very friendly. It was more challenging to socialize due to COVID protocols, but it was still fun, she said. The contestants got to know each other, talk about what they did to prepare for the show and wished everyone good luck. They even befriended each other on Facebook and are still in contact, Rey said. “The staff is equally amazing,” she said. Jeopardy! has a dedicated contestant coordinator whose job is to accompany the contestants and guide them through the process. “There’s an hour and a half orientation where they walk you through everything—all the rules, things to keep in mind and how it’s going to work. Then you do a rehearsal.” Since Trebek’s death, the show has featured a parade of guest hosts until they choose a permanent replacement. Although Rey—a huge football fan—

was unable to meet Trebek, she was excited to appear with Rogers, who was the guest host she was hoping for. “He was unbelievably professional and prepared,” she said “He loves Jeopardy! and has watched the show his whole life and clearly knows the game. He was also incredibly warm, friendly and funny with the contestants.” The stress of wanting to make a good impression on the football star piled onto the pressure, but once the game started, it went so fast, and she was so focused on the game, that the nerves went away, she said. Off camera, Rodgers made sure to make the contestants feel comfortable. He would tell them stories about his experiences in NFC Championship games, and he would walk them through what was going through his mind while he played. Although Rogers was a long-time fan of the show, his performance wasn’t perfect. He might be a superstar on the gridiron, but hosting a game show was a totally new experience for him. Rey said he would occasionally stumble over his words when reading the clues, which would sometimes throw the contestants off. This

required him to re-record the clues in order to be perfect for TV. Sometimes the re-recording sessions would go on until 9 p.m., Rey said. This is one of many behind the scenes exclusives that people don’t see when watching Jeopardy! at home. What surprised Rey the most though, was that behind every podium there is a platform under each contestant that adjusts to make sure they are all the same height. “They don’t even warn you. The thing just starts coming up!” she said. Rey went into the show not expecting to win, but that was mainly because she genuinely didn’t think she’d win. But, when she played she realized that was far from the truth. “It turns out all three contestants on every game know like 75 to 80% or more of every clue on that board. Including me. So I knew almost all the answers,” she said. It was the buzzer that was her nemesis. Rey said that her opponents were 20 years younger than her, and they had an advantage when it came to their reflexes. “Even when one of them would get it wrong, the other guy would get a

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rebound,” she said. “I’m just sitting there.” Rey said that if she could go back and change a few things, she would work on her hand-eye coordination rather than spending all her time memorizing facts. Another thing she would change is the fact that she knew the answers to both of the questions she got wrong. One question involved the name of the main character in the movie Fight Club. Rey accidentally mispronounced the name—Tyler Durden. The second question she missed was from her “dream ‘Jeopardy!’ category”—Broadway musicals. The answer slipped her mind. It was only two questions, but they mattered, she said. “It’s not like other mistakes in life where you might get another chance.” Rey said, “You will never be on Jeopardy! again. So that’s it. That was your one shot, but you don’t want to come out of it with any regrets.” Not only was it an amazing experience to appear on the show, but the online support from former friends, family, and Jeopardy! fans “doubled my joy.” “I had people emailing who I haven’t heard from for 20 years. That just added to the experience.” Contact BILL SANSERVINO: bsanservino@ communitynews.org, (609) 396-1511, ext. 104, facebook.com/BillSanservino.

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coming on, and you don’t know which principle goes to which school, you know, or just anything. I made the comment that when I started here we didn’t have email and so on. We would do our memos and with the distribution, I remember standing out there not knowing which principle went with which building. It was as basic as that. Social media is just fantastic. It can also be a challenge, because the communication is so fast, and some people vent so irresponsibly on it. So that can be a challenge too, but all in all I think it’s a very positive thing. LG: Over the years, what are some of your favorite projects or initiatives that you have worked on? LM: I was recently sending an email and I saw #LawrenceStrong in my signature. I was reminded about the #LawrenceStrong campaign that I started when it appeared the pandemic was going to be around for awhile. I challenged administrators to offer hashtag suggestions and I selected #LawrenceStrong. I wanted to generate hope and positivity whenever anyone saw it and wanted people to feel “it’s going to be OK.”

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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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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. 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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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happened. How has it affected your job and the school district in general? LM: As far as my job, we were remote right in the beginning and then when we saw it was going to go on a while, we came in. There were a couple of people that have some health issues who couldn’t It’s been frustrating. I can’t imagine having young children and having to work at home. And in fact, that’s the situation that my daughter and my daughter-in-law were in. It’s been frustrating at times seeing that families don’t realize all that’s being done by the district to try and make things as good as possible to help their education to continue and to understand the reasons why we didn’t bring students back as soon as some people would have liked, and as some districts have. There have been some districts who seemingly have not observed the six feet social distancing It’s been hard for the teachers, too. And you hear so much about depression and mental health. We’re putting more things in place, because we know once we get students back full time they are going to be those sorts of issues to address. It just seems like it’s just put everybody off. It’s just been unsettling for everybody and it’s gone on so long. Contact BILL SANSERVINO: bsanservino@ communitynews.org, (609) 396-1511, ext. 104, facebook.com/BillSanservino.

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On April 12, Lawrence High’s wrestling team staged an outdoor wrestling match with Hamilton West on the baseball field and senior Joelle “Joey” D’Angelo won a major decision at 120 pounds. Immediately following her match, Athletic Director Greg Zenerovitz drove Joey to the multi-purpose turf facility, where she was about 10 minutes late in joining her girls’ lacrosse teammates for a preseason scrimmage against Robbinsville. She played the remainder of the game with as much energy as if she had just come from study hall. While watching the scrimmage, football coach Rob Radice began discussing D’Angelo with reverence. “JoJo’s probably one of the premiere female athletes I’ve ever seen at Lawrence High School,” said Radice, who has been at LHS for two decades. “I saw her play powder puff football and she was catching seeds right down the middle of the field for touchdowns and kicking extra points afterward. I told her she could play slot receiver for me and kick extra points. I wanted her to play for me but Palombo was yelling at me to stay away from her.” As Radice spoke, girls soccer coach Emily Palombo coincidentally drove up on a golf court and confirmed that story before also raving about D’Angelo, who is going to Montclair State for soccer. “Joey can do anything,” Palombo said. “She’s super determined and has a lot of willpower to make sure she achieves in the sport she is playing. She puts in the work. She’ll tell you it comes naturally to her but she works for everything she gets and she’s a hell of an athlete.” How does one get so good at so many things? In D’Angelo’s case, it’s a desire to keep active and a love of competition. If she ever misbehaved in school, the harshest punishment to dish out would be to make her sit still for 30 minutes. “I definitely do have a love of sports and competition in general,” D’Angelo said. “It speaks to my soul. It’s crazy.” There’s not doubting it’s beyond normal. She described a routine day as having soccer practice from 3 to 5 p.m., going to wrestling practice from 5 to 6 and having club soccer practice from 7 to 9.

“It’s so funny,” lacrosse coach Heather Phillips said on the day of the wrestling-lacrosse doubleheader. “I got to school today and I saw the coaches and I was like ‘OK, you get her first and I get her second.’ And she never skipped a beat. She got here 10 minutes late and just got on the field and played awesome. She was a presence. When will this ever happen again? It’s pretty cool.” Not surprisingly, she started sports at a very young age, catching pop flies in the backyard with her dad. The spirited youth was soon put into soccer and, also not surprising, her passion was fueled by a brief bout of inactivity. “I can definitely say I wasn’t always good in soccer,” said D’Angelo, who wrote a first-person essay for Community News in the fall discussing how athletes adapted to the COVID era. “I remember sitting out when I was 11. We had this championship game and I did not play a second of it. I was like ‘OK, this hurts, I don’t want to feel like this anymore.’ So I got to work and here we are.” Here we are indeed. Although she was recruited to Montclair for soccer, D’Angelo is not ruling out trying to play college lacrosse. Phillips feels she is good enough to do it. “She’s a tough player that works extremely hard every day on and off the field,” the coach said. “She busts her butt the whole game, end line to end line. She’s part of our midfield, so she’s a leader on the field, she gets the girls pumped up, she’s very vocal. “She’s very good on the draw. She can take the draw and also be on the circle and work well with Jess Everman. They work really well together off the draw, supporting each other, getting the possession. She’s also a presence on attack. She gets the attack organized and runs it well, and she plays defense.” D’Angelo never held a stick until ninth grade and promptly collected 17 goals, five assists, nine ground balls and seven draw controls as a freshman. After one year of learning the sport, her stats increased to 25 goals, four assists, 41 ground balls and 38 assists. Phillips would have loved to see how those numbers increased last year had the season been played, and is just happy to have D’Angelo for one more year. Especially considering she could probably play any spring sport

Although she was recruited to Montclair for soccer, D’Angelo is not ruling out trying to play college lacrosse.

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with her ability. “I feel really lucky,” the coach said. “When she came out as a freshman, I saw potential in her right away. She’s an awesome, all-around athlete and she’s just gotten better each year.” In what is always a recurring theme in D’Angelo’s life, she decided to play a spring sport she knew nothing about, because she wanted to conquer it. “I had already done softball, I was OK at it, but didn’t love it,” D’Angelo said. “I love new challenges, I’m constantly challenging myself. I picked up a lacrosse stick my freshman year in January. I was not good at it, I remember this one girl saying “Yeah, you can just make JV your freshman year, no biggie.’” That was all D’Angelo needed to hear. “To myself I said ‘I didn’t want to do that,’ so I went to work,” she said. “I worked my butt off and hit the wall every day.” After countless hours of learning to throw and catch against the wall on her own, D’Angelo made varsity and never looked back. Her next hill to climb, or in this case mat to fall on, was wrestling. D’Angelo was well known for her strength. She is a lean and wiry 120 pounds and all of it’s muscle. Radice marvels over her dedication in the weight room, which he runs. Knowing how strong she was, assistant wrestling coach Jeff Verga badgered D’Angelo to come out for the team during her first two years at LHS. “I was like, ‘No, I don’t do that. That’s crazy!’” she recalled. “He had me in math class and was always in my ear. Sophomore year he’d see me in the hallway and say ‘Can you do it?’” By her junior year, Verga had learned the magic word to entice her. “He saw me in the hallway and said ‘C’mon, you’re a competitor,’ and that switch turned on and I said ‘Aww, you’re right, I do love to compete, why not,’” D’Angelo said. “I started slow, I was in the weight room and I got some of the lacrosse girls in there too.”

D’Angelo waded carefully into the sport, going against only girls during her first season. But she had to go against the boys in practice, which she loved. “It was definitely tough, they did not take it easy nor did I want them to,” D’Angelo said. “I was actually being thrown every day, which was perfectly fine with me because it toughened me up. My wrestling partner during the practice was somebody twice my size, he was 160, 170 pounds. The coaches were like ‘If you can learn how to throw him you can throw anybody.’ That’s what I would do. I would go to practice, learn how to throw him, do all the wrestling drills on him and then I’d go into these matches with girls the same size and I was like ‘Oh, all right, I can do this.’” This year, she was a full-fledged member of the boys team and through April 16 had won two of the three matches she wrestled and picked up two more wins by forfeit. But never suggest she must rely on her moves due to a lack of strength. “No!” she claimed. “They call it mat smarts, I think, and I only have a few moves that I go to. But other than that, I hold my own (with strength).” D’Angelo is now wishing she started the sport earlier and thinks she may have had a shot to do well in the NJSIAA girls state tournament. Nonetheless, D’Angelo is still grateful to have done it at all. “I liked it right away,” she said. “There’s something about physically being stronger than somebody and knowing it. When you pin somebody, that’s all you, that’s a product of how hard you work.” And her desire to always work is what stands out most of all. “She has mental toughness and she’s passionate about what she does,” Phillips said. “Whether it be lacrosse, or soccer, or wrestling she puts her all into it. She’s 110 percent every single day.” And with the amount of sports D’Angelo plays, that sometimes computes to 330 percent per day.

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VNG testing, an individualized exerVNG provides diagnostic insight cise program may be recommended into the systems of balance and highto help prevent falls and regain your lights weak areas that may be contribconfidence with daily movements. uting to symptoms. The goal of a VNG I have had physical therapy for is to determine the cause of imbalance dizziness See our adsbut in it did not work for that leads to falls and to create a plan me. section My doctor sent of care that prevents SIX09 me5 and to a7 neurologist additional falls. It is also pgs and ever ything comes an objective way to meanormal. What sure progress before Videonystagmography (VNG) is a up and after treatment. series of painless tests that measure eye else can I do to get RWJ-104 Heroes Work Here_4.313x11.25_HAM.indd 1 1:21 PM of my My child is ver y movements while the patient wears a to the bottom 4/17/20 active in sports and pair of video goggles. The test provides dizziness? A VNG offers an inhas had some mild information on how the three systems concussions. After the of balance (eyes, ears, brain) work depth analysis of your last one we noticed together to control your balance. If balance system, and that their grades have one of these systems is damaged, it can how its individual parts gone down and they cause a multitude of symptoms includ- work together to help have difficulty maining, dizziness, vertigo, imbalance and you maintain your baltaining attention. Can headaches. Lorraine Sgarlato, AuD, ance. Information gathchildren get VNG an audiologist at RWJUH Hamilton, ered from this test can testing? What would answers some questions about VNG be used by a physical Dr. Sgarlato a VNG measure and technology to treat imbalance and head therapist to create a more customized plan how could this help trauma. I often feel off-balance when of care. Test results may also reveal my child? With head trauma, VNG offers walking or getting up from a sitting areas of concern that fall within the position. I am afraid I am going to scope of other health professionals, direct measure of many post-concusfall. Are there exercises I can do who may suggest further testing or sion symptoms and complaints. This assessments. includes blurred vision with head that would help? I fell and hit my head. I have movement, spinning sensation, and If you have not discussed your loss of balance with your physician, I rec- had an MRI and ever ything is nor- eye tracking. Testing would reveal if ommend you do so. Your physician mal but occasionally I have some there are any breakdowns in the balmay refer you for a VNG test to deter- unsteadiness and headaches. ance system. During or after treatmine the cause of your loss of balance. My doctor recommended a VNG. ment, VNG testing can be used to Once the cause of is identified through What is the purpose of a VNG test? measure and track recovery. This provides insight regarding the healing process and can be used to track balance system function as the body recovers. Any adult or parent of a child who has suffered vertigo, balance issues, mild concussion, dizziness or migraine headaches should seek medical attention immediately. Ask your physician for a referral for a VNG evaluation at RWJUH Hamilton’s Balance & Hearing Center, 2 Hamilton Health Place, Hamilton, NJ. The correct diagnosis means a clear path to resolving issues and living your best life! Call today to schedule a consultation: (609) 245-7390 or visit rwjbh.org/ hamiltonbalancehearing.

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Coming up this month at RWJBH Hamilton Tuesday, May 4

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Wednesday, May 5

Kids in the Kitchen: May, Moms & MmmMmm Good! Mother’s Day recipes kids can cook for Mom. Hands-on cooking class directed by a dietitian. For children and their parent/caregiver(ages 6 and up). Virtual class. Call (609) 5845900 to register. 6:30 p.m.

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Thursday, May 6

Grief and Loss Support Group. If you have lost a loved one or been separated from your support system, you can find comfort and begin to cope better by interacting with others. Call (609) 5845900 to register. Also May 20. 1:30 p.m.

Tuesday, May 11

Navigating the Medicaid Process. Elder law attorney and author Justin Scott, Esquire, helps us understand the application process and benefits of Medicaid. Better Health program for VIPs 65 and up. Call (609) 584-5900 to register. 10 a.m.

Thursday, May 13

Orthopedics Open House: Joint Replacement. Discover the latest advances in knee and hip replacement surgery to include robotic-assisted surgery. Learn how the Center for Orthopedic & Spine Health prepares you for a successful joint replacement, and talk to our rehabilitation team. Michael R. Duch, MD, fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon. Call (609) 584-5900 to register. 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 18

Ask the Plastic Surgeon. It’s been a long winter—let’s spruce up for spring and summer! Join Matthew Lynch, MD, board certified plastic surgeon as he informs us of the latest facial rejuvenation products and procedures certain to put a “spring” in our step. Call (609) 5845900 to register. 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 19

Lifestyle Can Save Your Brain. Maintain brain health with a lifestyle to match! Join Shirley Roberts, MA, LPC, NCC, for this fascinating discussion, complete with tips! Better Health program for VIPs 65 and up. Call (609) 584-5900 to register. 1 p.m.

Thursday, May 20

Women and Incontinence. Learn about the latest incontinence treatments. This program is virtual to maintain confidentiality; anonymous Q & A will be held. Better Health program for VIPs 65 and up. Call (609) 584-5900 to register. 1 p.m. Sleepless in Hamilton! Insomnia is a sleep disorder experienced by more than three million Americans. People with insomnia have difficulty falling asleep, or staying asleep as long as desired. Causes, symptoms, and treatment discussed by Marcella M. Frank, DO, FACOI, FCCP, FAASM, board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases and sleep medicine. Call (609) 584-5900 to register. 6 p.m.

Monday, May 24

Vision Board Workshop. What do you really want to be, do and have? Create a vision board to help you discover your deepest desires. Bring scissors. All other supplies provided. Call (609) 584-5900 to register. 1 p.m.

Tuesday, May 25

2021 Update on Lyme Tick Disease. Did you know that New Jersey ranks among the top five states in the U.S. for Lyme Disease. Seth D. Rosenbaum, MD, MMM | SVP, Chief Medical Officer, board certified in infectious disease and internal medicine will share the latest information on prevention and treatment. Call (609) 584-5900 to register. 6:30 p.m.

The Whitehead Road roundabout: Finding a solution

tion to have that be what is taken from my participation. I use “many” words to better FROM ThE ManaGER’S dESK explain where I am coming from— like right now! I am endlessly a work Since April is Distracted Driver in progress and strive to do better Awareness Month, I decided to write each day. Community conversations are a topical article in combination with a never a bad thing—unless there community issue. As many of you know, there was are personal attacks-—and then another motor vehicle crash at the the exchange of ideas and opinWhitehead Road roundabout where a ions becomes--unproductive. But I car drove through it, over an embank- digress… Though there are motor vehicle ment, across a parking lot and into a crashes all over our community, building quite a distance away. The motorist seemingly did not the only crashes that are seemingly acknowledge the existence of the posted on community Facebook roundabout when approaching from the pages are the ones that happen at this southbound lane of Brunswick Avenue. controversial roundabout. This, I believe, adds to the deeper This crash prompted many of you to comment on community Facebook perception of it being dangerous. pages that the roundabout is “awful,” Even considering the number of “dangerous,” or “a mistake,” etc. At motorists that successfully navigate the same time, many others said it is through it each day, crashes are the safe and easily navigated if you are a only incidents that matter. Clearly, there are too many at this location. competent and attentive driver. Research by the National Highway I entered into the Facebook conversation by stating my belief that the Traffic Safety Administration proroundabout is simple and safe if you vides that human error is involved in proceed to it within the posted speed 94 to 96% of all motor vehicle crashes. Whether it is distracted driving by limit and yield to the motorist on your using a cell phone or texting, sleepleft before entering it. I also acknowledged all of the docu- ing, or speeding (to name some of mented studies by traffic experts that the main categories), it is clear that conclude roundabouts are safer than the motorist is much more likely to be the cause of the crash and not the traditional T-intersections. Well, expressing my opinion design of the roadway. I have always been someone that prompted some pretty lively and passionate responses disagreeing with me. believes in taking personal responsiI always enter the fray with the best bility for my actions instead of lookof intentions. Still, there are times ing to blame others or something when (as I am told) I come off as else. A motorist should always be in “wordy,” a “know-it-all” (I can’t help complete control of his/her vehicle, it--I tend to have more information be cautious, competent, attentive, on these subjects due to my job!), and obey traffic laws. In my 26 years being involved in “condescending” (my wife’s personal favorite), or “mansplaining” (which I court traffic matters as a defense ws Service am - Trenton/Lawrence/Robbinsville Crossword - 5/21and judge, our prosecutor having a problem identifying….I attorney, roads are unsafe due to human negknow, right?). For all of those times, I offer you a ligence almost all of the time (includsincere apology. It is never my inten- ing poor weather conditions). These

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signage directing the flow of traffic, improve the visibility of the roundabout, and increase traffic enforcement in the area to slow motorists down seems attainable. Everything will be on the table for discussion. I will report back to you all as we progress in this process. Here are some links that I have referenced in my article that you may find interesting. April Is Distracted Driving Awareness Month: nhtsa.gov/distracted-driving/april-distracted-driving-awareness-month. Distracted Driving: nhtsa.gov/ risky-driving/distracted-driving. Human error as a cause of vehicle crashes: cyberlaw. stanford.edu/blog/2013/12/ human-error-cause-vehicle-crashes. Crash Stats—Critical Reasons for Crashes Investigated in the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Sur vey: crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ ViewPublication/812115. Kevin Nerwinski, a longtime resident of Lawrence, serves as Lawrence Township’s municipal manager.

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