Cherry Hill Courier-Post
Amanda Rodriguez has a garden in the front of her Cherry Hill home, and she has ducks in the back.
Both play a role in the homemade, handcrafted goods she produces for the family business, The Rod Homestead.
Rodriguez began by infusing her own vanilla extracts, offering them as gifts. Then she began to harvest herbs from her garden, which led to her create more things, such as basil salt for her pastas.
Eventually, she began creating simple cocktails for herself. The rest is, well, history.
“I have a friend who’s a beekeeper, so I used her honey for the honey syrup,” said Rodriguez. “And starting with homemade grenadine instead of store-bought was such a difference in the taste. It’s nice to know what’s going in your body, and It’s nice to know that it’s not just corn syrup and sugar.
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When Mary Hilbert got the email on July 7 that she’d been selected to appear on “Live with Kelly and Ryan,” she was utterly ecstatic.
The local chef, who has a food truck called Mary’s Mobile Diner based in the Pennsauken and Merchantville area, will appear on a segment airing on Friday (9 a.m. on 6ABC) called “Live’s Hometown Chefs Summer Cooking.”
The segment is part of a series which features neighborhood chefs who show off their cooking skills on national television.
“It was amazing,” said Hilbert, a Pennsauken resident. “It was really pretty cool. I didn’t expect it at all. It was something out of the blue.”