SALT | CONCEPT ISSUE | APRIL 2012

Welcome to SALT, the concept issue. A digital magazine dedicated to Culture, Art, Retail and Dining in Cape May County, New Jersey.

For now, we're playing around with editorial content and guaging interest from the local business community. There's been a very good response so far.

We will be looking for contributors eventually. Mostly as a community thing. For fun. We won't be able to pay, but there should be some good exposure.

So if you're a photographer, writer or illustrator, or know one who you think is great, drop me a note with your submission ideas and some samples of your work. 

Have a shop, restaurant, event or personality that you think we should cover? Send it along.

Interested in advertising your product, company or service? Let me know. I'd like to make a note about this as well. While we will be accepting advertising, we have very strict guidelines as to the quality of the advertising we'll take. If it's not up to our artistic standards, we'll be happy to design your ad for you at no charge. But we're looking for branded advertising only. No specials. No coupons. No deals. If the advertising is tacky, the magazine becomes tacky. Then it's not worth doing.

This is the beauty of doing something yourself, and for which you don't care if you make money on. You can make your own rules.

For editorial submissions:

submissions@saltnj.com

To submit story ideas:

stories@saltnj.com

To ask about advertising availability:

sales@saltnj.com

Spicy Tuna from Tokyo in Rio Grande, NJ

iPhone 4s + Hipstamatic

As good as the weather has been recently—and it was still plenty warm for this time of year—today was pretty shitty. Just damp and a bit chilly. So, in order to get out of the house, we went out to eat, and we went grocery shopping. What can I say, a lot of our life revolves around food.

I've mentioned a local Japenese/Thai place that we like called Murasaki. They have two other restaurants in Rio Grande, a few towns down the road. One of them is another Hibatchi/Sushi place, and the other is Tokyo, a straight up sushi bar. We went to Tokyo.

I got Miso Soup, a Spicy Tuna roll and a Philly Roll. It was pretty decent. According to a sign on the door, they just started offering maki made with brown rice, so that's cool. It's never as pretty, but it's so much better for you. Jane's got me accustomed to getting green tea with me meal. I'm getting used to it, but it still kind of tastes like hot water someone soaked a crayon in.

Jane got one of the specials (she almost always get the special), which was called a Yummi Roll. It was basically Tuna sashimi topped with seared Tuna. That's like a burger topped with a steak. Or a Cuban sandwich, which is ham topped with pork. WTF?

I must admit, it did look Yummi, and Jane said she would come back for it, special or no special. She'd get them to make it for her. I believe her.