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Edith and Anna Perrine of Dutch Neck who travelled the country with Elsie the Cow, mascot of the Borden Dairy Company. Elsie’s home was the Walker Gordon Dairy Farm in Plainsboro.

Remembering Borden mascot Elsie 80 years after her death Iconic advertising symbol lived and died in Plainsboro By WILLIaM HarT

Her real name was You’ll Do Lobelia. She changed it and became a star. Long before there was Cher, Madonna, or Beyoncé, there was Elsie. Elsie the Cow was an American icon. She is also an American story. Today, only those

above a certain age or consumers of Borden Condensed Milk will know her. More will know her “husband,” Elmer, whose drawing is on the label of every bottle of Elmer’s Glue-All. But with apologies to Olympic Champion Rebecca Soni and movie star John Lithgow, Elsie the Cow is Plainsboro’s most famous citizen. At the height of her career Elsie was noted as the most famous icon in America, not

an easy feat when you are up against such formidable competitors like The Campbell Soup Kids, the Marlboro Man and The Jolly Green Giant. According to Ad Age magazine, Elsie ended up being one of the top 10 advertising symbols of the twentieth century. This national figure lived and died right here in Plainsboro. In fact, she died 80 years ago on April 20, 1941. Elsie’s Plainsboro story See ELSIE, Page 6

Those looking to find the “just right” type of activity between the vaccine-softening quarantining and full public exposure, the place to go may your actual backyard or neighborhood. And since bird watching has a seemingly limitless number of game to catch by eye, it’s an activity where the sky — along with everything under it — is the limit. “I think just getting out of doors,” says regional ornithologist Charles (aka Charlie) Leck about bird watching as a pursuit. “And there are few animal groups you can see at any time, beautiful colors.” The author of two Rutgers University Press books, Birds of New Jersey: Their Habits and Habitats and The Status and Distribution of New Jersey’s Birds, and professor emeritus at Rutgers University, where he led classes in animal behavior, ornithology, and ecology, Leck says in April “everything is bursting in song. Wrens are singing away. That’s the sign we’re really getting into spring.” During a recent telephone conversation, Leck, a West Windsor native who now lives ion Kendall Park, advises people to get out and find “cavity nesters looking for a nest site — a hole in the tree. That includes a lot of woodpeckers

and nuthatches, chickadees — they’re always courting already.” Additionally, he says look for bald eagles. “The numbers are fantastic this year. There have been 30, up to 40 or 50 wintering on the Delaware River, from Ewing south to Bordentown.” Since eagles mate during the winter, people on the lookout may be able to spot the chicks that began hatching at the end of March. “It’s good now. The young ones will be flapping around trying to fly for the next month or so.” Other bird activities include the arrival of the migrating Carolina wrens “and woodcock courtship is pretty big. Take walks at sunset. The birds are making noise and flying. There are many other things this time of year. Loons will be calling soon.” Leck says that bird watching is an easy pursuit that requires “just a curiosity about the outdoors, binoculars, and some kind of guide book. The Peterson one was famous for years.” But it works best if the novice goes with a few others who have some birding knowledge. “If it is just one other person, it helps a lot.” He also says that it is good to be in a group and points to the Audubon Society, the Friends of Abbott Marshlands and Mercer County Parks. “Small numbers of people are good,” says Leck, referring to both COVID and effectiveness — too many people will scare the birds away. “A lot of things are good in small numbers, anything smaller than 24.” See LECK, Page 4

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He connects his career in ornithology to an incident when he was a Boy Scout attending Camp Pahaquarra on the Delaware River. “You do archery and this and that. Then I saw scouts looking up at the trees. I was astonished with what was there. I couldn’t believe it. The scouts got me going.” That included pursuing an undergraduate degree from Muhlenberg College, a PhD in animal behavior from Cornell, and a teaching position at Rutgers University’s Cook College from 1970 to 2000. In addition to writing two books, Leck shares his bird expertise during bird walks organized by the Friends of the Abbott Marshlands, a group founded by his wife and Rider University professor emeritus Mary Leck. Among Leck’s own bird favorites, number one seems to be herons. “I look forward to seeing them at the marsh.” Understanding others may want to search out something more exciting — and mitigate the image of the nerdy birdwatcher — he mentions predators, such as the aforementioned eagles and owls as well as peregrine falcons found nesting on bridges. Thinking of a safe group activity that has a practical outcome, Leck recommends the annual bird count called both the Big Day — aka the World Series of Birding — set for Saturday, May 8. “It is both a social and scientific effort to raise money for various purposes,” he says. “People pledge so many birds (to count) and money

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ELSIE continued from Page 1 begins in Massachusetts in the 1890s. Much of the fresh milk sold at that time to the public was unsanitary, resulting in illness and high infant mortality. Two men, Dr. Thomas Rotch and Mr. Gustavus Gordon, wanted to address that problem. They wanted to provide a milk product that was pure, more like human milk in its content and safe for babies. In 1891 they met with George Walker of Boston, a businessman interested in the undertaking. On December 1, 1891 the first Walker-Gordon laboratory was opened for business in Boston, Massachusetts. The problem the laboratory encountered was getting good quality milk for a basis. They soon realized they could not trust what was available on the market and needed their own source. In 1897, Walker-Gordon purchased 40 acres of land in Plainsboro. The town was chosen because it was pristine, located midway between New York and Philadelphia, positioned on the Pennsylvania Railroad line, situated on Route 26 (now Route 1) and had access to the Delaware and Raritan Canal, which was still in use. There was even a trolley line from Trenton to New Brunswick that passed through the village. But, Walker-Gordon needed a great manager to run the dairy. In April of 1898, they hired Henry W. Jeffers, a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Agriculture. To tell the story of Walker-Gordon and Henry Jeffers would take longer

A postcard featuring Elsie in her famous “Cow Boudoir.” than this space allows. Suffice it to say that the dairy farm continued to grow to about 2,400 acres. They employed large portions of the town as either dairy workers or farmers who grew feed for the cows. Jeffers was a visionary. While watching cows walk in a single file line on a trip to Europe he conceived the idea of the Rotolactor, a cow ‘merry-go-round’ that could milk cows in a much faster and efficient manner. This machine attracted a lot of attention in the dairy industry. In 1929, The Borden Company, a national dairy corporation, bought the stock of Walker-

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Gordon—probably as much to have the Rotolactor for themselves as to make certain no competitor could get their hands on it. The acquisition also gave Walker-Gordon the cash they needed for the project. During the 1930s, the Borden Company’s success created government concern about their size and so various anti-trust suits were contemplated. The populace began to think of Borden and the other major dairies as money-grubbing oligopolies. To address this, Borden began to focus on a friendly advertising campaign that would make them look bet-

ter in the public eye. In 1936, the dairy began a series of medical advertising ads. These were free ads and posters provided to doctors to display and show the benefits of milk consumption. The ads had a variety of cartoon cows associated with them: Mrs. Blossom, Bessie, Clara and Elsie. The concept was to give Borden a softer, more humane look (while at the same time selling even more milk). In 1938, Borden became a sponsor of a network news radio commentator named Rush Hughes. He read a commercial featuring Elsie on the air that brought in lots of fan mail—not for Hughes, but for Elsie! Elsie quickly became the sole “spokescow” for Borden. By 1939, Elsie was featured in national consumer magazines and became part of local community programs. In this same year the New York’s World Fair was to open and Borden would have a huge display there. Jeffers had a large part in that project. He found the proposed Borden displays boring. He suggested instead that Borden install a Mini-Rotolactor. This Rotolactor could handle 10 cows at a time in 12-minute cycles, milking 150 cows three times a day. It was a big success. However, there was still downtime when no cows were milked. During this period there were no crowds in the Borden display. There were eight hostesses at the Borden display hired to answer questions from the visitors. Those ques-

Elsie the Cow, depicted in cartoon form above, was named one of the top 10 advertising Icons of the 20th Century by Ad Age magazine in 2000. tions broke down to 20% about the Rotolactor, 20% about the location of the restrooms and 60% asking which of the cows on the Rotolactor was Elsie. Borden needed a real Elsie—and fast! Fortunately, they found the perfect cow. She was a Jersey cow (which are known to be very mild) from their Elm Hill Farm in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Seven years old, her name was You’ll Do Lobelia. Beautiful, photogenic, good-natured (and a bit of a ham), she was rechristened Elsie. When the other cows were not being milked, Elsie would ride the Rotolactor alone wearing her trademark chain of daisies around her neck and on her back, a blanket with her name—waving her tail to the crowd. Elsie was a smash and the Borden display a big success. At the end of the season Elsie gave a “Bovine Ball” for the press. This proved so popular that other appearances followed. Elsie dined at the famous Stork Club and also at the 21 Club. She went on numerous trips, mostly for charities. When she wasn’t working, Elsie lived in her own barn at the Walker-Gordon Dairy in Plainsboro. (The site is now the home of the Walker Gordon Farm housing development). The success of Elsie at the Fair led Borden to make her the feature presentation in 1940 at the World’s Fair. They created for her the “Cow Boudoir.” The style was “barn colonial.” All sorts of barn props were used. Butter churns became tables, milk bottles were converted to lamps, and a chaise lounge was made from a wheelbarrow. Around the room there were paintings of Elsie’s “ancestors” such as Aunty Egglestein, Cousin Beauregard, Sir Persevere, and Admiral Uncle Bartholomew (who went down on the Battleship Maine). The 1940 success of Elsie led to RKO Pictures requesting that Elsie have a starring role in Little Men, a film featuring Jackie Oakey and Kay Francis. Elsie was to play Buttercup the cow. But there was a problem. In order to give milk, a cow must have a calf. And so it was that Elsie was ‘with child’ at that time. Borden was terribly concerned about sending Elsie to Hollywood in that condition. RKO promised the fin-

est of care for Elsie and Borden agreed. But, while Elsie was gone, what would happen at the World’s Fair? Again, Borden advertising geniuses came up with a plan. First, as it would not be seemly for Elsie to be pregnant outside of wedlock, they needed to find a husband. They selected a mild bull named Sybils’ Dreaming Royalist. Sybil would now become Elmer (and eventually go on to be the spokesbull for the Borden Chemical Division”). Second, Elmer would take over the boudoir. And so he did, leaving clothes, beer bottles, poker chips and cards all over while his wife was away. The crowd loved it. Elsie returned in September as a “moo-vie” star with a darling calf named Beulah. The boudoir, now cleaned up and redecorated, contained a calf-coop for the little calf, a clothesline with diapers hanging from it, a hand-knitted four legged sweater and booties—four booties of course! Borden now had the most popular display at the World’s Fair, overtaking General Motors Futurama, which had finished first in 1939. When the World’s Fair closed in November, Elsie began to travel again, now with a portable cow boudoir, and sometimes with Beulah. When going by train they required an entire freight car for all of their belongings. Tragically, on April 16, 1941, Elsie was on her way to Shubert Alley and travelling north on Route 25 (now Route 1&9) in Rahway when her truck was slammed from behind, severely damaging her vertebrae. She was rushed back to Plainsboro to a veterinarian on Dey Road. They considered various treatments, including traction, but in the end there was nothing to be done. Elsie was euthanized on April 20 and buried at the Walker-Gordon Dairy behind the carpenter shop. A headstone was later created to mark her resting place. The demise of Elsie, while it did appear in the newspapers, did not create a national outcry that led children to stop drinking milk. Borden quickly selected a new Elsie with an equally star quality disposition. Where the new Elsie came from is a matter of some debate, but it seems likely that she came from one of the local herds servicing Walker-Gordon in Plainsboro. Quite possibly she came from the Harlow Underwood dairy farm. We do know that the second Elsie’s real name was Noble Aim Standard. The new Elsie continued in her predecessors hoof steps and went on tour. When WWII broke out Elsie traded her farming boots for army boots and began touring the nation selling War Bonds. By the end of the war she had sold $10 million worth of these necessary instruments. Elsie did a large part of these travels with two girls from Penns Neck, but that’s another Elsie story. For now, we recall and honor the life of a local cow that hopefully made the world a little nicer place in which to live. Elsie—the Pride of Plainsboro!

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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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Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival, took place before COVID broke out. Once COVID was here, big events were over. Six09: Did you have any favorite inter views, recipes that you discovered or interactions with people throughout this process? DP: Sure. To mention one or two is to slight all the others, but meeting Cecilia Chiang was a pretty remarkable thing. I walked into her apartment, high up in a building in Pacific Heights in San Francisco with a glorious view out the window. This 100-year-old woman, put together like a fashion model, greets me wearing pearls. I had messed up the interview time, so she didn’t realize I was coming on this day, and she had a lunch ahead of her that had been scheduled, and yet, she graciously invited me in, and we talked for quite awhile. She went into the other room and came back with a manila envelope and pulled out an original menu from her restaurant, The Mandarin, show-

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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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CEO continued from Page 9 Originally from northeast Pennsylvania, Demetriades lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Laura Prosser, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and their two daughters, ages 5 and 6. He attended Tamaqua High School before earning a bachelor’s of science in healthcare administration from the University of Scranton and an M.B.A. in healthcare administration from the Temple University Fox School of Business in Philadelphia. “Scranton had a top-notch hospital administration program, and I went to Temple because it is nationally ranked for healthcare administration,” he says about his choice of training. “I think being a healthcare worker is the most virtuous calling there is,” he says regarding his career path. “My 94-year-old grandmother was a nurse at our local hospital when I was growing up and served as a nursing supervisor and nurse manager of the emergency department. I spent a lot of time in hospitals, and I was fascinated by their complexity. When I was an 18-year-old undergrad, I knew that I wanted to be involved in running hospitals.” He extends his hospital work beyond Princeton as a Reserve Medical Service Corps officer in the U.S. Navy, stationed at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. With the majority of his professional career at Princeton, Demetriades also

served as vice president for trauma and surgical services at Reading Hospital and Medical Center from July, 2009, to November, 2010. “I had an opportunity to break into the vice president ranks. Then I was recruited back to Princeton to be part of the executive team working on the new hospital project. I loved Princeton, I loved the organization, and I was very excited to come back and be part of the planning, design, and move to the new hospital and campus.” Accessing his skills at the start of his tenure of overseeing a facility with a $550 million annual operating budget, Demetriades says, “I bring a very strong operations background. I know how this organization functions and how it ticks. I have a strong relationship with our physician community, nursing staff, clinicians, and everyone who makes this organization.” He adds he also brings a keen eye to the future and depends on four factors: “quality; growth and access to care for our community; patient experience; and elevating our staff so they can achieve their professional goals and advance in their careers and recruiting top-notch talent into the organization.” But for now Demetriades says, “I think the first thing we need to do is manage the transition to a postpandemic world. A great deal has changed, and it continues evolving as we speak. Our challenge is to respond to the evolving healthcare environment to best meet the needs of our patients and community.”

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harmful or confusing to our residents. A recent news report stated that Mercer County would cease operating the county-run vaccine site in the gymnasium at Mercer County Community College, which features nursing students serving as vaccinators. In fact, Mercer County is transitioning its vaccination site from the Mercer County Community College campus to the skating rink in the adjacent Mercer County Park, and the relocation will be seamless and without interruption. More than 50 percent of Mercer County’s adult population has received at least one dose of vaccine, and we must leverage our relationships to keep that number growing. My administration will sustain our Eliane Geren push to receive as much vaccine as Princeton possible, so that we can continue to Vaccination site to get shots into arms. Let us continue to work together to transition to Mercer vaccinate every Mercer County resiCounty Park in May dent who wishes to be, as quickly as As Mercer County continues our possible. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we face the challenge of misinforma- Brian M. Hughes tion, some of which can be potentially Hughes is Mercer County executive I was recently heading toward South Mill Road on Edinburg Road, and when I crossed Village Road East the left side of my car hit a cement divider in the middle of the road. I went back the next day and saw that the center of Edinburgh Road on one side of the intersection did not match the center on the other side and that’s why I had hit the cement divider. I was disappointed that after contacting West Windsor Township to tell them of this problem, it appears that nothing was done to make that intersection safer. I hope this notice will alert others so that they don’t have the same experience I had: scary and expensive.

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Lëni Lënape – The original people, part 1 PAUL LIGETI

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Each month, the Historical Society of West Windsor — a nonprofit dedicated to documenting, preserving, and publicizing the history of our community — publishes a column covering our town’s surprisingly rich heritage. This article, the first of a twopart series, explores the history of the original inhabitants of what would become West Windsor.

Overview

Long before any European settled the area, our region was home to a well-established indigenous society: the Lëni Lënape. Theirs is a tale of distinct, vibrant cultures, mixed experiences with European settlers, and a protracted process of being crowded and pressured out of their homeland. Yet not all is lost—much Lënape culture persists through several tribes scattered about North America and even in New Jersey.

Origins & Territory

The fog of time obscures the precise origin of the Lëni Lënape — the descendants of Paleolithic settlers who emigrated from the west to the East Coast some time near the end of

the last Ice Age. As they preferred oral history to written records, much of what we know about their early culture comes from European observation. What “Old World” settlers discovered in the “New World” was a loose band of tribes connected by geographical proximity and a common Algonquin dialect, presiding over a land that stretched from western Connecticut through Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley of New York, all of New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, the northeast tip of Maryland, and much of Delaware. This land — the “Lënapehòkink” — was the domain of the Lëni Lënape — loosely translated to “original/real/common person.”

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Traditionally, two or three main dialect groups existed throughout the Lënapehòkink: The Munsee in the north, the Unami in the center, and the Unalachtigo (often argued to be a subset of the Unami) in the south. They each contained numerous tribes, operating largely autonomously of one another, and featuring distinct and vibrant histories, customs, and cultures. While tribes often interacted, what prevailed was a decentralized organization of affiliated villages. There were some common cultural ties, however. The Lënape traditionally lived in dispersed, non-palisaded

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A very crude map of Lënapehòkink. villages, reflecting predominately peaceful inter-tribal relations. They sheltered in wigwams and “longhouses,” the latter often shared by several immediately family units. They maintained tribal land cooperatively and did not traditionally recognize individual land ownership. Sociopolitical structure was egalitarian and democratic: sachems (chiefs) — operating with the guidance of a council of elders and other leaders — held considerable authority provided they followed their tribe’s collective will. Men were traditionally responsible for clearing land, hunting, fishing and fighting, while women tended to the farms, gathered fruit and nuts, built houses, made clothing and furniture, took care of the children and prepared meals. Kinship was matrilineal, so children belonged to their mother’s clan and leadership passed through the maternal line. The Lënape grew maize; hunted beavers, deer, bear and other animals; gathered wood and berries; and fished in creeks and rivers and harvested shellfish at the shore. They used waterways for transportation and established an elaborate network of footpaths across the Lënapehòkink, some of which European settlers converted into early roads — such as the Assunpink Trail. They also produced pottery, clothing, stone weapons and tools, and practiced basketmaking and other crafts. And perhaps most distinctively, the Lënape were known as peacekeepers, opting to negotiate settlements among themselves and with their more bellicose neighbors such as the Iroquois and the Susquehannock. However, they defended themselves if need be. The Lënape saw the earth and the sky forming a spiritual realm of which they were a part, not masters. Spirits (“manëtu”) inhabited the natural world and could be found in animals, rocks, plants, or clouds, and often provided guidance and council. The Lënape also believed in a master manëtu, omnipresent and omnipotent

but rarely felt. Religious leaders performed rituals to influence weather, cure ailments, and ward off danger. Although the Lënape happily accepted much trade from the Europeans, they largely resisted religious conversion and maintained these customs for centuries. Many of the old tribes still evince themselves in New Jersey place names. The Raritans, for example, resided around the river valley of that name. The Navesinks lived south of the Raritans around Keyport and Matawan. The Crossweeksungs occupied present-day Crosswicks. One group is of particular importance to us — the Sanhicans (or Sanpinks, among other name derivations). They resided in the greater Trenton area, including present-day West Windsor. You’d probably recognize their most obvious legacy here: the Assunpink Creek — from the Lënape “Ahsën’pink,” meaning a rocky, watery place. It was in this context that the “Old World” met the “New World” just a few hundred years ago.

European Contact

In 1524, Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano and his men briefly came into contact with the Lënape in New York Bay. The exact number of Lënape at the time is unknown — estimates vary wildly, often between 8,000 and 20,000. In 1609, Henry Hudson’s “Half Moon” rounded the tip of Sandy Hook in New Jersey, meeting Navesink Lënape, eager to interact. In 1624, the Dutch founded “New Netherland” (over the decades claiming large swaths of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island) with its capital, “New Amsterdam” (the southern tip of present-day Manhattan). This was followed by predominately Swedish and Finn settlement of the “New Sweden” colony, straddling both sides of the lower Delaware River, in 1638. Thus, with both ventures looking to trade with the Lenape, permanent relationships between the natives and settlers were established. The Lënape were actually significantly more powerful than their European counterparts for decades following first contact. Not only did they far outnumber the colonists for the majority of the 1600s; they were also more familiar with the land and its populations and effectively navigated the competition between the European powers. Throughout the first several decades, the Lënape frequently dictated who settled where, often aiming to constrain Europeans to managing trading outposts rather than founding outright agricultural settlements. Europeans, eager to establish trade connections with the natives soon found themselves creating a mostly peaceful society with their indigenous counterparts. The Lënape were eager

to incorporate European technology and artifacts into their lifestyles and the Europeans saw opportunity for economic and political prosperity through their relationship with the Lënape, whom they called the Delaware. For decades, a predominately cooperative indigenous-European society dominated the Lënapehòkink. However, peace was not omnipresent. From about 1626-1636, the Lënape were engaged in a struggle with the indigenous Susquehannocks to the west over access to European trade. The 1631 massacre of the Dutch Swaanendael settlement in southeastern Delaware by the Lënape was likely the product of several intersecting issues — including a misunderstanding over property that left a Lënape chief dead by the hands of his own tribespeople. The Lënape generally preferred Swedish settlers to the Dutch, largely because of more aggressive Dutch ambitions and actions—including attempts to solicit tribute payments from the Lënape, disagreements over land rights, and a takeover of New Sweden in 1655. In 1643, William Kieft, DirectorGeneral of New Netherland, ordered an attack on Lënape fleeing from the Iroquois and sheltering in Pavonia (present-day Jersey City), instigating the “Pavonia Massacre” that left dozens of Lënape men, women, and children dead. This sparked “Kieft’s War,”

The 1643 Pavonia Massacre was one history. which killed hundreds of Lënape and Dutch over the course of two years and further eroded intercultural trust. This was followed by the Peach Tree War of 1655, a large-scale attack

in Munsee territory. It was this context — one of Dutch, Swedish and Finnish settlement of Lënapehòkink and largely but not entirely nonviolent trade-based intercultural relationships (with most of the large-scale violence in Munsee territory), that the British found in 1664. Their annexation of New Jersey that year, followed by a massive wave of settlers in the next few decades, flipped the indigenous-colonist power balance and led to the context that largely drove the Lënape out of their homeland. We will explore this story in next months’ article — stay tuned. Note: much of the research for this article comes from Jean R. Soderlund’s Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn (Early American Studies). This exhaustively researched book, replete with references to primary sources, comes highly recommended — please consider researching more on the history of our predecessors and keeping their story alive! To contact, donate to, or volunteer for the Historical Society and explore more West Windsor history, visit of the lowest points of Dutch-Lenape westwindsorhistory.com. We are also on social media — search “Historical Society of West Windsor” on Facebook and “@SchenckFarmstead” on by the Munsee and Susquehannock Instagram. Email us at westwindsoon several New Netherland settle- rhistory@gmail.com. ments along the Hudson River. And the Esopus Wars of the 1660s further Paul Ligeti is the head archivist of the demonstrated Lënape -Dutch conflict Historical Society of West Windsor. –

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