Acclaimed chef Carmen Gonzales and The Danforth Inn owner Kimberly Swan – a couple of admitted perfectionists – are cooking up something special at the historic Federal-style mansion.
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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Greener postures
Your Maine neighbors are taking a variety of steps – worm composting, recycling, green cleaning – to make their lives more environmentally friendly.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘Fine Cooking Comfort Food’
“Fine Cooking Comfort Food: 200 Delicious Recipes for Soul-Warming Meals” (Taunton Press, $19.95) isn’t fancy. It doesn’t have loads of extras scattered throughout the book, although you will find tips for things like cleaning and storing Swiss chard or making the perfect mashed potatoes. This is the kind of book you lazily skim through, pausing […]
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Soup to Nuts: Spring things(food and events) come to Maine
Sure, summer’s coming, but don’t overlook the culinary opportunities that bloom before Memorial Day.
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Food & Dining Dispatches, April 18, 2012
CUMBERLAND Recipes wanted for HART of Maine cookbook The HART of Maine no-kill adoption center and shelter for cats is asking animal lovers to submit a favorite recipe for a new cookbook that will help support the cats and kittens living there. Recipes will be accepted until June 15. To submit something, go to hartofme.com […]
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Author Q&A: Humor ME
John McDonald’s latest book is the distinctly droll ‘Maine Trivia.’
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Portland cook wins $10,000 on ‘Chopped’
Melissa Corey of Duckfat is the second Portland chef to win on the Food Network show.
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Soup to Nuts: Middle Eastern fare is heaven scent in Portland
The intoxicating aromas of baking fill the small Forest Avenue kitchen of Audai Naser, who is cultivating a loyal and growing following for his Middle Eastern breads and sweets.
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Food & Dining Dispatches, April 11, 2012
PORTLAND Whole Foods family food drive begins Thursday Whole Foods Market, 2 Somerset St., will hold its Spring Food Drive for Families from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. All non-perishable foods collected will be donated to the Wayside Food Programs and distributed to 42 food pantries, soup kitchens and social service agencies […]
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Seven Maine restaurants named New England’s Best
The list compiled by the blog “Opinionated About Dining” includes four restaurants in Portland.