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BY PETER GENOVESE Star-Ledger Staff
Friday, June 11, 2004
All Things Cranberry, Monmouth Beach
This sounds, frankly, weird: a shop where all the baked goods are made
from one fruit. If it were apples, blueberries, even peaches, fine.
But cranberries?
"I believe it's the most versatile fruit, and it's underused and
underappreciated," said Clarisse Persanyi, owner of All Things Cranberry
in Monmouth Beach. "It brightens every flavor."
She ditched her job as an international banking and financial services
consultant and opened the shop last September. She does wholesale, retail
and online business, plus catering, and by the end of the year hopes to go
international.
"It's basically a one-fruit conglomerate," Persanyi said.
Abandon all cranberry stereotypes -- especially those involving
Thanksgiving cranberry sauce -- and try her cranberry scones, muffins,
brownies, torte, truffles, biscotti, bars and ice cream. None of them is
overwhelmingly cranberry; you'll taste the white chocolate more than the
cranberry in the excellent orange white chocolate scones. Also
recommended: the cranberry cinnamon muffins, cranberry cream scones, the
cranberry chocolate chip biscotti and the cranberry nine-layer bar.
We've run across a lot of bad brownies already this summer; Persanyi's
cranberry swirl brownie alone might be worth the trip down the Parkway.
All Things Cranberry isn't weird, it's pretty close to wonderful.