Latte "flights," risotto bites and more most impressed food writer Kara VanDooijeweert this week.

This column publishes on Saturdays, and typically features standout eats from Morris, Essex, Bergen, Hudson, Passaic and/or Sussex counties.

From what I hear, kids can no longer bring treats to school on their birthdays.

A few years after I graduated high school, my younger sister told me the district had implemented "order forms" in which students could order "allergen-safe" desserts to be delivered from the cafeteria to the classroom on their special days. The next fall, they did away with that initiative, and started dropping a singular batch of nut-free, dairy-free "cookies" to each class once a month (to symbolically acknowledge every kid who was born in October, November, etc. at the

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