GARDINER Harvest potluck to help launch natural food store The Kennebec Local Food Initiative will host a harvest potluck and auction from 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at Oaklands Farm, located at the end of Lincoln Avenue. Local foods, home-brewed beers and live music will be featured at the rain-or-shine event, which costs $10 […]
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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Celebrity scavengers find Mainer has the goods
The hosts of ‘American Pickers’ buy items from Mario Binette during a filming trip to the state.
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Soup to Nuts: For Maine grocer,a bright future is in store
That’s the early buzz on a ‘kinda cool’ new country market in Waterboro, where customers stumble across never-heard-of items that become pantry must-haves.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘The Cookie Jar Cookbook’ from Good Housekeeping
“The Cookie Jar Cookbook” (Hearst Books, $12.95) from Good Housekeeping, edited by Susan Westmoreland, is the perfect little cookbook for these economic times. It’s half the price (at least) of most modern cookbooks, and it’s filled with 65 recipes for classic, chunky and chewy cookies that will provide edible comfort while combing the want ads […]
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Online voters send compliments to the chef
The Harraseeket Inn wins the Top of the Crop ‘People’s Choice’ award.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘The Apple Lover’s Cookbook’ by Amy Traverso
Amy Traverso, food editor at Yankee magazine, has your apple obsession covered in her new book, “The Apple Lover’s Cookbook” (W.W. Norton, $29.95), which will be released Sept. 26. There’s even a chapter on John Bunker, the heirloom apple expert who is the subject of today’s Soup to Nuts column. The recipes include everything from […]
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Soup to Nuts: Maine flexesits (apple) core values
Not so long ago, an apple was just an apple. As long as our fruit was colorful and crisp – and maybe organic – that was all we cared about. We went apple picking in the fall, made our pies, and called it good until next year. In recent years, however, the public’s apple IQ has soared.
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Details on Maine apple festivals
SUNDAY, SEPT. 18 Second Annual Rosalyn Baston Apple Festival, 1 to 4 p.m., North Yarmouth Congregational Church, 3 Gray Road. Enjoy homemade apple crisp, apple pie, apple jelly, apple butter, apple sauce with ice cream, and fresh apples. Proceeds benefit the church. Free. SEPT. 24 Apple Pumpkin Festival, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Livermore Falls […]
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Racing to the scene, with friends in mind
For firefighter Michael Clarke of Bath, scouring the rubble of the twin towers was deeply personal.
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It’s show time
Michael Barna has been getting ready for you, Augusta. Barna, a chef with Taste of Home magazine (circulation 3.2 million), does 45 cooking shows a year, some in the fall and some in the spring. His show Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center will be his first for the autumn series, so he’s been at […]