In some ways, the ’90s was to gastronomy what ‘Jersey Shore’ is to Shakespearean drama. Now pass the SnackWells, yo.
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: ‘Feeding the Dragon’
If you’ve ever wondered how to eat chicken feet, you’ll find the answer in “Feeding the Dragon: A Culinary Travelogue Through China with Recipes” (Andrews McMeel, $24.99) by the brother-sister team Mary Kate Tate and Nate Tate. (Yes, those are their real names. Their parents apparently had a sense of humor.) Nate Tate, who lived […]
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Local chefs to be on Food Network’s ‘Chopped’
In “Chopped,” chefs use ingredients in “mystery baskets” to create a meal that is judged by a panel of three experts.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘Scallops: A New England Coastal Cookbook’
If you love scallops but you’re used to eating them only in chowder or pan-seared, let mother-daughter team Elaine Tammi and Karin A. Tammi rock your world with their new book, “Scallops: A New England Coastal Cookbook” (Pelican Publishing, $39.95). How about Applewood Bacon-Wrapped Scallop Tournedoes with Summer Succotash and Orange Pecan Butter (a favorite […]
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Seafood makes a splash
This year, Harvest on the Harbor celebrates some of the food world’s lesser known and underappreciated fish.
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Food & Dining Dispatches
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Author Q &A: Compulsive gamboling
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Dining and Drink: Vinfest
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Cookbook Corner: ‘Cake Ladies’ by Jodi Rhoden
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Soup to Nuts:Maine’s infusionistas raise the bar
OGUNQUIT — Tourists will try lobster in just about anything. (Remember lobster ice cream?)
Even so, when Charles Nedzbala, a bartender at the Meadowmere Resort, asked his boss if he could try making a lobster vodka infusion for a lobster martini, “she thought I was crazy.”