RED BANK: SNACK BAR, SCREENS ON AGENDA

Feb 25, 2020

The council won’t renew the lease on the snack stand at Riverside Gardens Park under a measure on Wednesday’s agenda. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

After several years as a seasonal commercial operation, the concession stand in Red Bank’s Riverside Gardens Park has proven to be a fiscal dud.

So suggests a proposal to nix an extension of the soon-to-expire lease on the building. That, along with an ordinance tightening up the property maintenance law governing lawns and window screens, is among the items of interest up for consider at for the council’s regular session Wednesday.

Here’s a quick rundown.

February 25, 2020 - 12:45 pm |

RED BANK: SMUT AND WEED AT THE MARKET

Aug 27, 2014

Corn smut, or huitlacoche, for sale at the Twin Pond Farm table. (Photo by Susan Ericson. Click to enlarge)

By SUSAN ERICSON

The Red Bank Farmers’ Market can be counted on as a great source of fresh-picked tomatoes, corn on the cob and sunflowers, all of which and more PieHole found in abundance last Sunday.

And then there were the oddball items, one of which came with an eyebrow-raising name.

“Corn smut is what it’s called,” said Jen from Twin Pond Farm in Howell, referring to the strange amalgam on the table between us. We looked from her to the container and back, thinking maybe we didn’t hear her correctly. “Corn smut is a fungus and a delicacy that came from some blue Peruvian corn we are growing,” she added.

Returning home, we found recipes for corn smut in a Mexican cookbook, and it is, indeed, considered a delicacy. Used in a quesadilla with cheese, it isn’t that different from a mushroom.

August 27, 2014 - 1:41 pm |

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RED BANK: SNACK BAR, SCREENS ON AGENDA

RED BANK: SMUT AND WEED AT THE MARKET