This weekend, we see food everywhere we look.

Fresh local New Jersey food pairs up with bottlings from the state’s wineries at the Jersey Fresh wine and food festival. Friday’s tasting dinner is at Theater Square Grill at NJPAC in Newark (www.theater-square-grill.com 973-642-1226) starting at 6 p.m, $85. Saturday and Sunday starting at noon the festival moves to Hopewell Valley Vineyards in Pennington (www.newjerseywines.com/jfresh.html, 866-488-9463), $20.

Also Sunday is A Taste of Clinton. Stroll downtown from restaurant to restaurant and enjoy Spanish, Italian, Greek, Thai, Lebanese, Japanese and American cusine, 2-6 p.m. $15 for adults, $10 for children 12 and under. www.hunterdon-chamber.org.

Down the Shore, it’s not just beach season, it’s also peach season. Just ask the folks at First Presbyterian Church in Belmar, organizing a Peach Festival Saturday at 4:00 p.m. www.belmarpresbyterian.org, (732) 681-8685.

“Sabroso” means tasty in Spanish. But the music, not food, is the thing when Ray Rodriguez & Swing Sabroso (www.swingsabroso.com) kick off the salsa at Brookdale Park in Montclair and Bloomfield Friday at 7:30 p.m. It’s part of the Essex County Free Summer Music Series.

It’s also a good weekend for antiques and arts shopping. Saturday and Sunday check out 200 artisans at the Crafts and Fine Arts Festival along Haddon Ave. in Collingswood. Look for works in wood, ceramics, blown and stained glass, metal, leather and mixed media. www.collingswood.com/node/710

Or try the annual antique show at Historic Cold Spring Village, country and Victorian furniture, collectibles, primitives, ephemera, toys, books. Saturday, 10 a.m - 4:30 p.m. www.hcsv.org

So eat, dance and shop!

Barbara Freire (www.newoutlooksingles.com) knows how people meet their other halves, and she wants you to learn as well.

The bubbly South Jersey-based lecturer (“101 Ways To Meet Someone”) and event planner has a following of thousands of singles who are seeking the ying to their yang. You can sign up for one of her classes, or meet and greet dozens of singles at parties and dinners.

Barbara credits herself with 18 marriages so far.

At her recent party, the guests were given cards that were cut in half. On the back was an ice-breaking question (“Are you a night or day person?” “Shore or forest?”) The people with the most matched cards are eligible for prizes at the end of the night.

“I’m not saying everyone is a love connection but they wouldn’t have gone up to them if they didn’t have this ice breaker,” she says.

Dating services abound in New Jersey. Singles are meticulously interviewed, tagged, screened, catalogued, and photographed. Barbara believes in simple backdrops that create connections.

Like staging the Summer Sizzler at the Flying W (www.flyingwairport.com) in Medford. Where else better to have love take wing but at an airport and resort where the guests gather round a pool in the shape of a plane?

Then there’s “dinner dating night” at a favorite Italian restaurant. Guests shift seats with each of five courses, and the food and wine inspires small talk.

Nearly as important as finding Mr. or Mrs. Right, are the friendships that Barbara’s events have led to. Sometimes, she points out, your gal and guy pals last a lot longer than your dates.

Looking for your other half? Barbara might just help you find him—or her. And even if you don’t, you could have fun too.

A process that is sometimes all too painful, made into something you might just enjoy. With or without finding your other half.

In Clifton, the dogs rule.

We’re talking hot dogs. Fried in oil, crispy on the outside, dubbed “rippers” by the owners of Rutt’s Hut (http://www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Overview.aspx?RefID=1362), the 80-year-old frankfurter heaven.

There have been challengers, the latest one being Papaya King (www.papayaking.com), the New York-based franchise with legions of fans that just recently opened its first New Jersey restaurant. In Clifton.

Matt Visconti, manager at the King, knows he’s in enemy waters. Can his sizzling dogs and fresh smoothies steal any of the cult-like foodies who are always in the Rutt?

Visconti is up to the fight. He’s offering 20 percent off to anyone who prints out and brings this NJMYWAY column along with their food order. He gives discounts to hundreds of business students from the Dover Business School, located next door.

Visconti also claims his dogs are healthier.

“A dog is a dog,” says Rutt’s Hut owner Bill Chrisafinis. He believes competition is a good thing, intensifying the public interest in hot dogs.

We salute both Papaya King’s grilled dogs, and the Rutt’s ripper. Our advice is not to count calories or cholesterol when you enjoy your bun-clad buddies. Just take a bite of the dog, and you’ll be licking your chops with pleasure.

Did your steamy romantic weekend at the Bucks County B&B chill when creaky floorboards and well meaning but nosy hosts made you wish you were back home?

The place that gives new hope to your B&B weekend isn’t across the river. It’s in New Jersey.

Now, you’d never know that from the website, where The Woolverton Inn (www.woolvertoninn.com) calls itself a “Bucks County Bed and Breakfast Inn.” But we can safely report that this spread, the ultimate in luxury, is in Stockton, New Jersey.

There’s an amazing picture postcard setting, complete with a pristine farm next door and a peaceful sheep meadow out back. A historic inn with fine suites and cozy rooms. The main house is surrounded by architecturally appropriate lux cottages containing large guest suites with sumptuous views. Gardens front and center.

The spread out nature of the compound minimizes the chances you’ll bump into your new housemates in the hallway. The price of privacy is steep—some of these digs are over $400 per night.

The inn is so well regarded it made the list of eleven New Jersey hot spots in Patricia Schultz’s book “1,000 Places To See Before You Die” (http://www.amazon.com/000-Places-See-Before-You/dp/0761104844).

Book your room now for that special fall weekend. And remember, the place is in New Jersey. Don’t let them fool you into thinking anything else.

Egils Matiss—his friends call him Egg—modestly says he’s just a “glorified mover.” We say he can make any party fantasy real.

And we mean any fantasy.

Check out his website at www.eggsoticevents.com or stop by for a tour of the warehouse in Hampton, and you might think you landed on the back lot at MGM.

Egg’s most bizarre night was the transgender-themed bash he helped stage for an elderly couple. But on any given day, he’ll be loading up his amazing props for an “A” list party at the hottest venues and most fabulous homes in the state.

If you want to recreate a night on the Titanic for your birthday party, Egg’s got the plastic icebergs for a backdrop. Stage a Hawaiian luau and he’ll bring the tiki bars, beach balls and torches. Charting your honeymoon? Egg will bring the Niagara Falls backdrop.

Create a super heroes Bar Mitzvah and his life sized Spiderman will defend you from the bad guys. For Halloween you’ll have customized tombstones, and a scary array of mummies, ghosts and goblins and a full-sized headless horseman. Complete with life-sized horse.

We’re just skimming the surface. Egg’s pride and joy is a beaming seven foot party girl he bought at an antique shop. A friend later identified her as a former Asbury Park arcade resident.

Watch our video tour on the New Jersey Monthly website (www.njmonthly.com/#NJMyWay.) Then plan your party. Make sure Egg the prop master brings his bag of tricks. The next fantasy he creates will be yours.