Crabtree’s, a popular pick-your-own blueberry spot in Sebago, opened to the public a week later than usual this year. But the early picking is good, with ripe fruit practically dripping from the bushes. “It’s almost like you put the bucket under the bush and just will the berries to fill up your bucket,” said Allen […]
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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Food is fresh and natural, but payment can be plastic
Portland’s farmers markets will begin accepting credit cards, debit cards and food stamp benefit cards on Aug. 3.
The cards can be used at the Monument Square market on Wednesdays, the market in Deering Oaks park on Saturdays and at the winter market at the Maine Irish Heritage Center.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘The Maine Summers Cookbook’
The Greenlaw women are at it again. “The Maine Summers Cookbook: Recipes for Delicious, Sun-Filled Days” (Viking Studio, $30) is the latest from swordfish boat captain and author Linda Greenlaw and her mother, Martha. There are some swordfish preparations, of course –Linda’s Blackened Swordfish with Blueberry Chutney sounds amazing – but you’ll also want to […]
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Scraps – Stuff we’ve heard about this ‘n’ that, July 20, 2011
• F. Paul Pacult of Spirit Journal has named Maine’s Cold River Vodka one of the “Top Five-Star Spirits in the World” for 2011. The 140 spirits on Pacult’s list, he writes, “capture the magic of distillation like no others in their category at present.” • Miyake moved last week to its new location at […]
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Soup to Nuts: Kneading Conference rolls up its sleeves in Maine
Mary and Bob Burr are just one example of how a small conference that brings bakers together with farmers can have an impact that reaches from small Maine communities all the way to the West Coast.
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Kneading Conference: Highlights of the schedule
KNEADING CONFERENCE
(For the full schedule, go to kneadingconference.com)
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Food & Dining Dispatches, July 20, 2011
STATEWIDE Farms welcoming visitors Sunday for displays, demos Milk a cow, take a hayride or go on a barn tour at farms across the state on the 2011 Open Farm Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Farms will have displays and demonstrations, and some will sell farm products. For a list of participating […]
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Portland’s first gluten-free bakery to open in August
The bakery will open in the space formerly occupied by Green Furniture Design on Commercial Street.
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Cookbook author to appear on Martha Stewart Radio
Dana Moos will share recipes and tips on entertaining on the “Morning Living” show.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘The Wild Blueberry Book’
It’s not quite time for blueberries, but if you just can’t wait for these late-summer treats, you can learn about Maine’s wild blueberry industry and pore over 16 mouth-watering recipes in “The Wild Blueberry Book” by Virginia M. Wright (Down East Books, $14.95). The book includes interviews with a blueberry raker and a blueberry queen, […]