The four-person team uses a salmon dish to win $4,000 and four engraved chef’s knives.
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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Food & Dining Dispatches
Damariscotta man finalist in Hood Dairy Cook-Off William Gillard of Damariscotta was one of five finalists in the Fourth Annual Hood New England Dairy Cook-Off held at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence Sunday. Gillard’s dish, the Ocean Bounty Creamery, was the finalist in the lunch/dinner category and won $500. The $10,000 grand prize […]
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Something big is brewing for Portland Beer Week
Now in its second year, the celebration of the local sudsculture has grown by hops and bounds.
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Now that’s a straw poll
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Two Maine lobster vendors go swimming in ‘Shark Tank’
They survive, and end up getting $55,000 for their business.
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Maine cousins headed to primetime TV
The two young entrepreneurs from Maine will be wading into dangerous waters Friday when they make an appearance on the popular ABC show “Shark Tank.”
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Soup to Nuts: Exploring the cuisine of the deep South
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