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lection of Summer features that
will keep you engaged and enter-
tained. Information in our “Skin
Deep” articles will help you meet
Summer head on, with tips on
how to maintain healthy skin and
keep safe from the sun’s rays. Be
sure not to miss the EDGE inter-
view, which takes an in-depth
look at one of the word’s most accomplished musicians:
28 year-old New Jersey native, violinist Sarah Chang.
Meanwhile, there’s lots happening at Trinitas Regional
Medical Center, including the establishment of a Bariatric
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Summer skincare tips ............................................ 49 EDGE: Every parent of a talented daughter dreams that
their child will have the life that you do. So let’s get the
obvious question out of the way. Do you ever yearn to be
someone other than yourself, to slip out of your skin and
into someone else’s?
DAN BRICKLEY s 20th Anniversaries go,
SC: Maybe for a day, but not any longer than that. I love
my life. I have been traveling all over the world since I was a
10-year-old. I’m 28 and have seen and done things that are
just unimaginable.
Sarah Chang A Sarah Chang’s is one of
the more remarkable.
She has been captivating
audience since age 8, mastering
some of the most challenging
EDGE: When did you request your first violin?
SC: At four. My father played the violin and I wanted to be
like him—I’m a daddy’s girl, like most little girls. I was playing
the piano at the time and thought it would be great to play
violin concertos with awe- something else. Besides, I wanted something to carry
inspiring passion and precision around.
when her peers were still proud
of how well they tied their shoes. EDGE: At what point did you realize that your life was going
Now 28, Chang’s résumé is pages to be different?
long when others her age are
just getting their career-defi ning SC: I performed with the New York Symphony Orchestra
breaks. She has enchanted when I was only eight. I knew there was something that
audiences from Carnegie Hall to wasn’t normal about that. But I didn’t think I had a “gift.”
the Kennedy Center to the great
concert halls of Europe and Asia. EDGE: As an adult, have you ever experienced the
fearlessness you did back then?
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She has shared the stage with
fellow luminaries from Pinchas
SC: No. I was a kid. I just did it! I didn’t think about it. Of
Zukerman to Yo-Yo Ma. Chang’s
course, now, I’ve been doing it forever and this is my life, but
CDs are best-sellers. She has
back then I just went with it, like most kids do.
even carried the Olympic torch.
EDGE: What was it like working with older musicians?
EDGE sent ZACK BURGESS on
assignment to profile Sarah Chang. SC: Everyone would be going to parties after a performance
His job was to peel away the and here I had to go back to my room or go study. It was
layers that typically accompany frustrating then but, hey, I was a kid, a teenager. Nothing is
international stardom and acclaim, fair when you’re that age.
and get to the heart of this
MIKE COHEN
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it easy. Her poised and stunning being Sarah Chang?
facade notwithstanding, she is still a
kid at heart. SC: The travel. Sometimes I wake up and don’t know where
I am, or what city I’m in. But then I remind myself of what
I do, and how I get to entertain people all over the world—
and that, at an age when others are just breaking into this
business, I have been doing this for twenty years now. I’m
already booked out to 2012, which is a great “problem” to
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lunch, offered from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. It is a BYOB, and reservations
are accepted only for parties of six or more. Menus are posted daily on the restaurant’s Web a pleasantly communal experience:
site. Entrée prices typically range from $21 to $30. Do you think there’ll be enough
A Toute Heure has several special events planned for the coming months, a summer wine
chocolate pot pie to go around
dinner in June, a Bastille Day pastry class in July and a garden day in August. Check on the tonight? Have you tried a red Rhone
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Inside, the big-ticket decoration in the low-lit dining room it come out of the kitchen. You’re going to jones for that
is a double-wide blackboard chalked full with names of the beehive of a puff pastry top covering a pottery crock and
farmers, cheesemakers and other purveyors who provide the won’t much care if it’s concealing beef or chicken or just
ingredients that fuel A Toute Heure’s kitchen. Starting about vegetables. On this night, it’s buttery braised beef and a
now, with rhubarb and peas and berries, crops from Carbine’s passel of root vegetables cloaked in a red wine-enriched
own garden in Cranford will take hold of the menu and, come gravy that demands a soup spoon.
high summer, just about take it over. It’s micro-seasonal,
deliberately so, and yet there’s a soul to the food here that Yet it always comes down to a roasted chicken in a bistro,
gives it year-round continuity and comforting familiarity. and if a bistro can’t do a roasted chicken right, it’s got no
business calling itself a bistro. This brined, bone-in bird is high
It’s about, after all, those eggs, that fundamental liver pate on interior juice, with a drizzle of garlic-licked oil moistening
and, perhaps, a puff pastry tart filled with an earthy chop the crisped skin. I’d gobble it down, straight, any old night of
of long-cooked wild mushrooms, onions and a film of the week, even without the aid of the accompanying toasty
fontina that unites the starter. You also can kick things off fingerling potatoes and plump stew of portobellos.
by nibbling on a short selection of small bites, such as the
spirited meatballs or, my favorite, cippolino onions densely I’d also gobble down a bowl of the vanilla-spiked whipped
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yet creamy blue cheese. It’s a terrific combination and it to miss the lemon verbena bread pudding it tops. What a
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bread and swirl of custard that make up a typical bread
I’m still thinking about what I can do with my next catch pudding. You don’t need hard smacks of accenting flavor,
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crumbles of chorizo. The skinny Belgian-style fries on the balancing squirt of rum. The apple-toffee cake is the choice
side, served with a petite pot of garlicky aioli, makes it better for a super-sweet tooth, built on a foundation of winesap
than a trip to Brussels. apples and capped by creamy toffee. Get it with one of
A Toute Heure’s homemade ice creams – say, the sweet
Halibut poached in olive oil and plated with parmesan- cream or the ricotta with candied citrus.
stoked mashed potatoes, sautéed spinach and a splay of
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theme. So do the seared New Jersey sea scallops. Their about: comforting, yet not clichéd, food prepared with
crackling crusts yield to super-sweet meat and, quickly, find technical precision, respect for the seasons and resolutely
smart plate mates in a tart-crunchy apple-fennel salad and in tune with stewards of the land and sea. It’s food you’ll
a cider vinegar-infused beurre blanc. want to eat any day, any time.
The pot pie is the I-want-whatever-that-is dish at A Toute Andrea Clurfeld is a former editor of Zagat New Jersey.
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