The state’s restaurants and food professionals were nominated in numerous categories, including Outstanding Restaurateur, Best New Restaurant and Best Chef: Northeast.
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.
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Do you schmear what I schmear? Bagels are the new Christmastime tradition
Local bakeries say demand for the once quintessential Jewish bread spikes during holidays, including Christian ones.
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The Quarry seemed like an improbable Beard Award winner, unless you’ve met Marilou Ranta
Since winning the prestigious award for Outstanding Hospitality in May, the tireless chef/owner of the Monson restaurant continues to prove why she’s deserving of an onslaught of new customers.
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For Maine food businesses, helping each other out is part of the job
In a tough, fast-paced business where something often goes wrong, Maine restaurateurs, bakers and brewers have countless tales of coming to one another’s aid – or being the recipient of help.
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The Wrap: Crooked Face Creamery in Skowhegan wins award, Portsmouth Restaurant Week is on
Judy Gibson in Knightville to shut its doors, Baba’s Cafe on Peaks Island to temporarily transform itself, and more.
Posted inFood & Dining, Outdoors
Before hitting the 100-Mile Wilderness, Appalachian Trail hikers tell tales of hunger
Shaw’s Hiker Hostel in Monson serves a bountiful breakfast that’s legendary among hikers.
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For 100 years, a family has gathered in Penobscot County to reconnect and eat beans
Two marriages first conjoined the Smith and Smart families, and an anniversary party in 1923 turned into an annual reunion that marked a major anniversary of its own this summer.
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Maine’s peach crop this year is a total loss
Frigid temperatures and high winds in February doomed the fruit, which grows on trees that are sensitive to the cold.
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Hummus turns into a sauce for this fast one-pot pasta
Using hummus instead of chickpeas saves time, helps avoid waste, and puts a sometimes-pasty store-bought product to good use.
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A cake to weather a storm, from Cathie Pelletier’s ‘Northeaster’
This frugal, old-fashioned Blueberry Cake with Nutmeg Sauce appears in her new book about Mainers in the blizzard of 1952.