From clam shacks to five-star destinations, smartphone-toting diners increasingly are shooting what’s on their plates, a trend that the restaurateurs we spoke with are, for the most part, OK with.
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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Maine food dispatches
AUGUSTA Food for Maine’s Future to discuss legislative agenda Food for Maine’s Future holds its annual membership meeting, potluck lunch and informal discussion from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 9. The gathering takes place at the Maine State Grange. The meeting will focus on the bills likely to be taken up in the […]
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Soup to Nuts: Go nuts!
The overexposure of Psy (sigh) continues with his upcoming Super Bowl commercial, but when it comes to Super Sunday snacking options, he has a point.
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Hot beer festival coming to Portland
By now word is out that “The Festival,” the hot new beer festival organized by Shelton Brothers importers, is coming to Portland in June for its second year of bringing together the best brewers and the most devoted beer geeks. (Last year’s inaugural festival was held in Worcester, Mass.) Shelton said in a recent phone […]
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Festival aims to be ‘Woodstock for beer geeks’
The event on June 21 and 22 is expected to draw all the big names in the craft beer industry to Portland. Beer geeks get to rub shoulders with the beer makers themselves at this one.
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Soup to Nuts: On this one day, at least, we can all lead a life of pie
It’s National Pie Day, and if you think it’s just another of those meaningless food ‘holidays,’ think again.
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Po’ Boys macaroons going retail
One of the most popular items at Po’ Boys & Pickles on Forest Avenue is its homemade coconut macaroons. They are big, dome-shaped cookies that are incredibly moist on the inside and chewy on the outside. Over the years, Po’ Boys owner Peter Zinn and his staff have made more than 15,000 of the macaroons, […]
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Author Q & A: Safety in numbers
Kathryn Miles’ new book recalls the only so-called ‘coffin ship’ to keep every one of its passengers – refugees of the Irish potato famine – alive.
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Portland figures in Jeanie Johnston history
The most harrowing trip the Jeanie Johnston took to North America has a little-known connection to Portland. It was far too late in the season for the Jeanie Johnston to cross the ocean, Miles explained, and the ship was overloaded with more people than was allowed by nautical law. They hit some serious storms that […]
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Author teams with Browne Trading Co.
Browne Trading Co. has announced a new collaboration with award-winning cookbook author James Peterson. Peterson, whose cookbooks have won numerous James Beard Awards, will be creating seafood recipes especially for Browne Trading, located in Portland on Merrill’s Wharf at 260 Commercial St. He’ll also be illustrating the recipes with his own photographs taken at his […]