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Kara VanDooijeweert

New York

Contributor at That’s So Tampa

Articles

  • 1 week ago | northjersey.com | Kara VanDooijeweert

    12 new restaurants, ranging from fast-casual spots to upscale date destinations, opened recently in North Jersey. Restaurants featured in this article hail from Morris, Essex, Bergen, Hudson and Passaic counties. There's a certain feeling you get in the diner when the waitress brings your mozzarella sticks and they're the beer-battered ones, instead of those typical breaded sticks.

  • 1 week ago | northjersey.com | Kara VanDooijeweert

    HBO’s “The Last of Us” will return for a second season tonight. Here’s where to watch Season Two, Episode One (“Future Days”). If you thought zombies, disease and emotional turmoil ran rampant in "The Last of Us" Season One, get prepared for an even more tumultuous set of episodes when the hit series returns to HBO Sunday night.

  • 1 week ago | northjersey.com | Kara VanDooijeweert

    Mother's Day and Father's Day are fast approaching. Spoil mom and dad with some of these local celebration ideas. Spring is here, and, though it's still feels nearly freezing out, the blossoming daffodils and forsythia and cherry trees have surely reminded you two key holidays of the year are approaching. If you think I'm talking Easter, Memorial Day and International Haiku Day, however, think again — because, as May and June roll in, it's all about mom and dad.

  • 1 week ago | northjersey.com | Kara VanDooijeweert

    Oversized calamari, traditional New Orleans desserts and more most impressed food writer Kara VanDooijeweert this week. This column publishes on Saturdays, and typically features standout eats from Morris, Essex, Bergen, Passaic and/or Sussex Counties. Has anyone ever had a problem with eye twitching? I don't mean the eyelid — I mean under the ball, like the droopy circle part above the cheek that turns purple/black when you get too tired.

  • 2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kara VanDooijeweert

    Because nothing says "holiday" like a lavish spread of smoked salmon, honey ham and house-made desserts.