Pop the Kennebunks, one of the biggest parties, is flamenco-inspired with Mediterranean food and wine plus live music and champion salsa dancers.
Meredith Goad
Many people tell Meredith Goad that she has the best job in Maine, and most of the time she agrees.
Maine has a crazy appetite for food stories, and it’s Meredith’s job to satisfy those cravings with juicy tales from chefs, food producers, local farms, and the state’s fast-growing restaurant scene. Her work appears in Wednesday’s Business section and the Sunday Food & Dining section, and occasionally, but not as often as she’d like, on the front page.
A native of Memphis, Tenn., Meredith shamelessly flaunts her knowledge of good barbecue in front of her Yankee friends. She earned a bachelor of science degree in wildlife biology from Colorado State University, then studied science writing at the University of Missouri, where she received a master’s degree in journalism. She spent the first 20 years of her career covering science and environmental news, then switched to features in 2004, just as Portland’s food scene was taking off.
Her own most memorable meal? Back in the 1980s, on assignment in Finland, she shared a dinner of reindeer and Russian vodka with Maryland’s governor and a bunch of hungry scientists.
Meredith lives in Portland, but spends much of her time off back in Tennessee - either visiting family, or in online archives, researching her family’s history.
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Stout stuff: Portland’s newest brew adds notes of bivalve
Bunker Brewing and Eventide Oyster have teamed up to produce a new stew … er, brew. Dirty Pearl, anyone?
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Author Q&A: A woman walks into a bar and finds community and culture
Thousands of hours of research give columnist Rosie Schaap stories about being a woman who frequents bars.
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Portland finally joining food truck revolution
It’s a bit late to the party, and there remain some wrinkles to be ironed out, but the city at long last embraces an idea that will make life here just a little bit better.
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Chef Melissa Kelly: ‘It just all felt very surreal’
Melissa Kelly of Rockland’s Primo beats out several other top chefs to be named the Best Chef in the Northeast.
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Coming soon: Delizioso Italian cured meats
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will relax a ban on the importation of Italian cold cuts and other pork products beginning May 28.
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Local chefs square off in local spin on ‘Chopped’
Rob Evans knows what it’s like to be under the gun and wielding a knife on the fast-paced Food Network show “Chopped.” He won $10,000 on the show, and then later became a runner-up on “Chopped Champions.” Now Evans will be on the other side of the stove, doling out mystery baskets of ingredients and […]
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New in the frozen food section
A processing facility opening this summer in Topsham will provide farmers all over southern Maine with another market for their fresh produce.
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Plant sales in Maine
Watch out for the hook in this year’s crop of plant sales – at some you can get heirloom varieties, at others a pie or even a puppy.
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Beer tasting a warm-up for Festival
Hey beer geeks, want a preview of The Festival? The Bier Cellar will hold a Festival Warm-up Tasting from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Shelton Brothers, the beer importer that created The Festival, will be coming to the Bier Cellar, at 299 Forest Ave. in Portland, with 14 beers from breweries that will be at […]