If you’ve seen those fancy buches de noel – yule logs – in high-end food catalogs and neighborhood bake shops, you’ve probably fantasized about making one yourself. But you never seem to get around to it, because it looks so… difficult.
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: ‘The Tipsy Vegan’ by John Schlimm
Just when you think they couldn’t possibly come up with any more ideas for cookbooks, along comes “The Tipsy Vegan: 75 Boozy Recipes To Turn Every Bite into Happy Hour” by John Schlimm (Da Capo, $17). The recipes all contain some form of alcohol, and they all have cutesy (and sometimes tasteless) names like “Three […]
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Soup to Nuts: Holiday stress? Have some fun with the food
The five weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s are typically packed with a whirlwind of activities that can leave you exhausted.
But there’s lots of food-related events on the horizon that can help you de-stress and put a little joy back into the season. Here’s a sampling…
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Cookbook Corner: ‘Perfect Pies’ by Michele Stuart
In case you haven’t heard yet, pies are the new cupcakes. You’ll find more than 80 recipes for your holiday table in “Perfect Pies” (Ballantine, $25), a new cookbook by Michele Stuart, owner of Michele’s Pies in Norwalk and Westport, Conn. Stuart has won 26 National Pie Championship awards for her creations, including her key […]
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Food & Dining Dispatches, Nov. 30, 2011
HOLLIS Community Heritage Alliance to host benefit The Community Heritage Alliance of Rural Maine will hold a benefit supper from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Dec. 10 at the Hollis Lions Club on the corner of routes 35 and 202. The menu will include roast pork, baked beans, pasta dishes, vegetables, casseroles, salads and desserts. Admission […]
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Author Q&A: Peak experience
Donn Fendler, who famously was lost for days on Mount Katahdin as a young boy, co-writes his story in graphic novel form.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘The Cookiepedia’
Foodie culture can sometimes take a simple, really delicious thing and make it a total pain in the neck. You know, sometimes you don’t need to construct an entire edible Santa’s village to enjoy the holidays. Sometimes, you just want a good cookie. It’s in this spirit that Stacy Adimando has given us “The Cookiepedia: […]
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Soup to Nuts: T-Day
It’s the day before Thanksgiving.
Most people have already done their shopping. The menu is planned and assignments have been doled out – you’re making the squash, cousin Sue is bringing the corn casserole.
But we all know the problem with holidays. The unexpected always happens.
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Wounded Iraqi girl to undergo procedure to cover bald spot
This is Noora Afif Abdulhameed’s third trip to Maine for medical treatment since 2008.
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Food & Dining Dispatches, Nov. 16, 2011
Whole Foods floats loan to Maine milk cooperative Maine’s Own Organic Milk Company has received a $25,000 low-interest loan from Whole Foods Market. The loan is part of Whole Foods’ Local Producer Loan Program, which is granting up to $10 million in low-interest loans to farmers, food artisans and small businesses. MOOMilk is sold in […]