But the family-friendly, farm-to-table restaurant can wobble when it stretches to global cuisine.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: An empty nester brushes up on cooking for 2
How to avoid overeating, over-shopping, wasting food, wasting money and eating a joyless diet of leftovers.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Enjoy leaf-peeping season in your own backyard
These shrubs produce beautiful fall colors and berries, extending the garden season.
Posted inCookbook Reviews, Food & Dining, Recipes
Cookbook review: Please give us more of the excellent writing in ‘Extra Helping’
Along with the prose, Janet Reich Elsbach’s new cookbook contains recipes intended to sustain new parents, new neighbors, ill and recovering patients and the grief-stricken.
Posted inLife & Culture, Nation & World, News, Religion and Values
Pope denounces exploitation of Madagascar’s unique resources
The pontiff laments illegal logging and a government structure that forces its citizens into felling trees, poaching wildlife and illegally exporting flora and fauna.
Posted inLife & Culture
Comic Bob Marley to perform in Waterville
Bob Marley will take the stage at 7 p.m. and again at 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Waterville Opera House, 1 Common St., in Waterville. Marley lives in Maine, he’s featured regularly on Sirius XM radio and he even won their Superbowl of Comedy. He has put out more than 20 comedy CDs and […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Amazon apologizes for shipping Margaret Atwood’s new novel early
Amazon.com is apologizing for a “technical error” over the shipping of “The Testaments,” the year’s most anticipated novel.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine Authors, Uncategorized
OFF RADAR: ‘Say What You Can’ by Elizabeth Tibbetts
You’d never think so, but poetry is being published in proliferation pretty much throughout the English-speaking world. “Say What You Can” by Elizabeth Tibbetts, of Hope, offers an example of the skillful writing that’s under way hereabouts.
Posted inLife & Culture, On Music Lucky Clark
Lucky Clark On Music: Chris Legrand
Rolling Stones tribute band Satisfaction to perform Sept. 14 at The Elm in Waterville.
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Theater at Monmouth to close season with ‘Sense and Sensibility’
The Theater at Monmouth will close its What Dreams May Come 50th Anniversary Season with a Fall Show with a fresh take on Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” adapted and directed by Producing Artistic Director Dawn McAndrews. The fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne, are thrown into chaos after their […]