SOUTH PORTLAND – Near the end of the Incredible Breakfast Cook-Off on Friday, it became clear that there was going to be a showdown. Reed Gordon, the 15-year-old son of Sea Dog Brewing Co. chef Chris Gordon, moseyed up to The Good Table’s display, dozens of colorful beaded necklaces around his neck. Each necklace was […]
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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Good Table wins Breakfast Cook-Off by 4 votes
With their creme-brulee French toast, The Good Table restaurant in Cape Elizabeth won the Incredible Breakfast Cook-Off today for the third year in a row.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘150 Best Indian, Thai, Vietnamese & More Slow Cooker Recipes’
If you love Indian and Southeast Asian food, chances are you’ve wished there were an easier way (besides takeout) to get those flavors on a day when you have to work late, shuttle the kids around, and generally deal with your busy life. Sunil Vijayakar’s “150 Best Indian, Thai, Vietnamese & More Slow Cooker Recipes” […]
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Soup to Nuts: ‘Gurt alert, yo
Walking down the yogurt aisle at the supermarket has become the same kind of overwhelming, mind-numbing experience as the dizzying stroll down the cereal aisle. …
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Food & Dining Dispatches, March 7, 2012
Natalie’s chef Deconinck in running for Best New Chef Geoffroy Deconinck, chef at Natalie’s restaurant at the Camden Harbour Inn, has been nominated a second time for “The People’s Choice Best New Chef” by Food & Wine. Deconinck worked at Cafe Boulud, Daniel and Bouley in New York City, and at Alain Ducasse au Plaza […]
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Maine restaurant week launches with sips and sweets
About 600 people attend The Signature Event on Thursday, a cocktail-and-dessert competition in Portland.
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Otto Pizza opening new restaurant in Mass.
The new full-service restaurant in Brookline will have 60 seats and serve pizza, salads, desserts, beer and wine.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘Marshmallow Madness’
If you’re used to getting ordinary white marshmallows in a plastic bag at the grocery, Shauna Sever’s new cookbook will expand your consciousness like a marshmallow in the microwave. The sugary confections she makes in “Marshmallow Madness” (Quirk Books, $16.95) – look for the cute puffy cover – go way beyond the little pillows of […]
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Soup to Nuts: Maine stovetop entrepreneurs share and share alliance
Small operators looking to make it on a larger scale are getting a hand from a group of experienced veterans who have been there, done that.
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Food & Dining Dispatches, Feb. 29, 2012
PORTLAND Restaurants fight hunger Four Maine restaurants will offer specially priced menus in March and donate a portion of their sales to fight childhood hunger. Miyake, Pai Men and Restaurant Grace in Portland and The Foreside Tavern in Falmouth are participating in Share Our Strength’s Dine Out: No Kid Hungry program. Miyake, 468 Fore St., […]