Tony Mantuano, chef/partner at Spiaggia in Chicago and one of President Obama’s favorite chefs, will be coming to Portland July 25 for a special dinner at Carmen at the Danforth. Mantuano and chef Carmen Gonzalez, who recently opened a new restaurant at the Danforth Inn, became fast friends when they were both contestants on season […]
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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Cookbook Corner: ‘Lobster Shacks’ by Mike Urban
If you love a steamed lobster with a view, there’s a brand new guide to New England lobster shacks – and half of the book covers lobster shacks in Maine. “Lobster Shacks: A Road-Trip Guide to New England’s Best Lobster Joints” (Countryman Press, $18.95) by Mike Urban, gives a history of each of the shacks […]
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Foodie Tours rolls out trolleys in Kennebunkport
Looking for something to do with your out-of-town guests this summer? Maine Foodie Tours has been showing tourists around Portland’s food scene for the past three years, and now it is expanding to Kennebunkport. The company did a trial run of its new Kennebunkport trolley tour with invited guests last Wednesday, then launched its first […]
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Soup to Nuts: How Maine rolls (hint: it involves lobster)
Locals and tourists are lining up for the time-tested presentation of lobster meat on a bun. Meanwhile, some purveyors are riffing on the classic recipe to appeal to more adventurous taste buds. Wasabi anyone?
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The great and powerful schnoz
The nose knows: Its ability to detect certain ‘functional odors’ may improve everything from your score at Nintendo to your diet and sex life.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘The Book of Kale’
If you’re wondering what to do with all that kale you’re growing in your garden this year, master gardener Sharon Hanna has some ideas for you in “The Book of Kale: The Easy-to-Grow Superfood” (Harbour Publishing, $26.95). Hanna includes plenty of gardening tips, but also more than 80 recipes such as kale, salmon and potato […]
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Now posting: Eater.com’s new Maine restaurant blog
Eater Maine, the local version of the popular Eater.com national restaurant blog, launched Tuesday. The Maine site is Eater National’s first statewide blog, but most of its coverage will center on Greater Portland, according to Lockhart Steele, founder of Eater.com and a part-time summer resident of Maine. “Part of why we decided to call it […]
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Soup to Nuts: On Father’s Day, treat dad to man-food groups
Whip up the guilt-inducing breakfast meats, and don’t forget some kind of greasy potato to go along with it. And ketchup.
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Food & Dining Dispatches, June 13, 2012
UNION Wineries, cheese makers team up again for dads Just as they did on Mother’s Day, Union-area wineries are holding a Father’s Day wine and cheese tasting from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Savage Oakes Vineyard and Winery will host Appleton Creamery and serve its diverse selection of goat, sheep and cow’s milk cheeses. […]
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New book looks at Maine mothers who kill their children
Sarah Whitton of Alfred chloroformed her 3-week-old infant and threw her in the river.