It sounds like the title of a horror film, but these invasive Asian worms are very real, and they are very bad for your garden.
Peggy Grodinsky
Staff Writer
Peggy is the editor of the Food & Dining section and the books page at the Portland Press Herald. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a Boston-based national magazine published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle. Peggy has taught food writing to graduate students at New York University and Harvard Extension School. She worked for seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York and spent a year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” in 2017 and in “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” in 2008.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Eat locally, seasonally – and take a page from Persian kitchens
Cookbook writer and eco-conscious chef Louisa Shafia is visiting Rockport this week to cook and teach.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Restaurant reviews
Dine Out Maine: Summer sparklers to last all year
Stored memories of foods that capture sunshine on a plate will help tide our critic over through the long winter to come.
Posted inBooks, Food & Dining, Maine Authors, Recipes
A mother’s chocolate cake brings up the kitchen confessions of writer Monica Wood
The cake appears in her memoir, and at many a family occasion. But don’t ask Wood to bake it.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Food & Dining, Things to Do
Tap lines: Enjoy its easy-going style, but whatever you do, don’t call it Kölsch
Many Portland-area breweries make a Kölsch-style ale, but no surprise the Germans have rules around the name.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Discussions about farm succession plans can be complicated and fraught
A spoonful of sugar – in the form of chocolate-carrot snacking cake with vanilla yogurt glaze – and help from a regional nonprofit can ease the pain.
Posted inFood & Dining
Take Me to the Fair
Tickets to the Common Ground Country Fair go on sale Monday.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Growing a gardener
With the help of MOFGA, a one-time black thumb has become a gardener.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes, Vegan Kitchen
Since its start, MOFGA has had a friendly attitude toward vegetarians
We trace its origins, from early founders Helen and Scott Nearing to good old Maine thrift.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Pick: Cherry Tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes are ripening now. They are tasty, plentiful and require almost no work in the kitchen. In fact, they’re good as a snack just as they are should you walk by them in the garden and want to sample. All cherry-sized tomatoes are indeterminate, which means the vines keep growing and producing new fruit […]