Featured recipe: BLACK GARLIC WITH SCALLOPS

    For me, it was The Ingredient That Wouldn’t Go Away. I first came across black garlic at last summer’s Fancy Food Show, and refused to have even a taste. (This from someone who once voluntarily ate toasted mealy worms.) My thinking went something like this: “Garlic that is turned jet black and described as sweet? No thank you!” But when restaurant chefs all over the country started singing its praises, I warily ordered some from www.earthy.com. Long story short: I am smitten.

   During a Korean cooking demonstration I attended last fall, Anthony Dissen, the Outpatient and Community Education dietitian at the University Medical Center at Princeton, provided comment from the sidelines.

   Several years ago, an acquaintance, “Leo,” who works in the computer industry, expressed his frustration over the constant need for training and re-training in his ever-changing field.

    Merrick’s of Princeton will host a benefit fashion event on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26 and 27, to aid HomeFront’s Women’s Initiative, which mobilizes local women to help alleviate family homelessness.

Dr. Mae Sakharov

   What’s not to love about your library?

   Hillsborough students Jocelyn Gardner and Jennifer Klejst, both students at Stuart Country Day School in Princeton, submitted winning entries in Princeton University’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. essay and visual arts contest.

   Vanessa Sandom is still a member of the Hopewell Township Committee, but now that there is a Republican majority on the committee, she is no longer mayor.

    Eva Bostick-Fuller has discovered there is no use in fighting destiny. She was meant to become a teacher, only she did not realize it until later.

   Tell us about you. If your local nonprofit organization plans a special event and you would like to have the information published in The Manville News, send a note to Manville News Calendar, P.O. Box 350, Princeton, NJ 08542.

   BORDENTOWN CITY — Festivities abound at the St. Mary School this week, as it is in the midst of celebrating Catholic Schools Week.