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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: “A Dash and a Dollop”
Senior living centers are not the first sources you think of when searching for new recipes. But where else can you find dishes like Iguana Stew, the creation of Chuck Ohler, who fought in the Philippines in World War II and was held in a Japanese prison camp for more than a year? Atria Senior […]
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Food and Dining Dispatches, Jan. 11, 2012
BRUNSWICK Wine pairing dinner celebrates Robert Burns The Tavern at the Inn at Brunswick Station, 4 Noble St., is hosting a wine pairing dinner Jan. 25 in honor of poet Robert Burns’ birthday. The dinner will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m. featuring traditional Scotch eggs. There will be a recitation of “The Ode […]
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Havana South closes its doors
Havana South, the Old Port restaurant that called its cuisine “American fine dining with a Latin flair,” has closed permanently.
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Havana South closes its doors
“We worked long and hard, but in the end it just wasn’t possible to continue financially.”
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Elevation Burger coming to South Portland
The chain serves grass-fed, free-range, 100 percent-certified organic burgers made from meat that is ground fresh in the restaurant.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘Deliciously G-Free’ by Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Elisabeth Hasselbeck parlayed her stint on the Australian Outback season of “Survivor” into a gig as co-host of “The View,” and now as a pitchwoman for gluten-free foods. Hasselbeck was diagnosed with celiac disease about a decade ago, and promotes her own line of gluten-free protein bars on “The View.” She already has one bestseller […]
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Cookbook Corner
“Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook: 2,000 Recipes from 20 Years of America’s Most Trusted Food Magazine”
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Feeling lucky?
Some say what you eat on Jan. 1 can have a bearing on whether the next 12 months will be filled with good fortune … or not.
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It’s a very full menu of dining-out options for New Year’s Eve/Day
Looking for something to do to celebrate New Year’s? Lots of Maine restaurants are hosting special dinners, parties and other events both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. BACK BAY GRILL, 65 Portland St., Portland, will have a four-course dinner NYE for $85 per person. 772-8833; backbaygrill.com BAR LOLA, 100 Congress St., Portland, […]