Some local restaurant chefs are experimenting with a prepaid, ticket-based model for dinners, which hold special appeal during a pandemic.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
How to turn annuals into perennials – of sorts
Some annuals in your garden have monetary or sentimental value. Here’s how to keep them for another year.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes, Vegan Kitchen
You can’t go to the Common Ground Fair, but you can enjoy its vegan food
These recipes should hold you until 2021.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine Authors, Uncategorized
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Happy Birthday, Maine!’ and ’45th Parallel’
Lynn Plourde’s fanciful birthday romp to celebrate Maine’s bicentennial, and a grim novel about drug dealing in Maine in 1975 by Norman R. Kalloch, Jr.
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining
The Wrap: A new bakery in Brunswick, a new Holy Donut in Auburn
Salt Pine Social closes, and Anoche wants your spare apples.
Posted inFood & Dining, Things to Do
Bar Guide: Have your apple a day, and drink it too
Enjoy the fruit of fall in liquid form.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Local & State
A juried exhibition returns to Portland Museum of Art
The show, which the museum insists is not a return to the biennial, is intended to explore the turmoil of our times.
Posted inFood & Dining, Things to Do
Run & Eat: Warm up with Mi Sen Noodle Bar
As the weather grows cooler, consider trying some of Mi Sen’s excellent – and warming – noodle soups and entrees.
Posted inFood & Dining
Un-fair! We miss fair fare
With Maine agricultural fairs canceled because of the pandemic, fairgoers are hankering for their fair food favorites. But there are other ways to get your fried dough fixes.
Posted inFood & Dining
Dine Out: The restaurant industry is forever changed, for worse and for better
There will be no returning to ‘normal’ after the pandemic.