Portland is finally getting serious about its Mexican food. Bone up on your tacos with a book that shows you hundreds of ways to savor them. “300 Best Taco Recipes” by Kelley Cleary Coffeen, a cookbook author and food consultant who lives in New Mexico, offers up such delectable creations as Grilled Jerk Chicken Tacos […]
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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Soup to Nuts: Having fun with food
Relish magazine’s top chef will bring his family-friendly approach to a cooking show in Portland.
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Food & Dining Dispatches
PORTLAND Coffee by Design gives share of sales to women’s program For the second year, Coffee by Design is selling coffee for a cause. During the month of May, the company will contribute $1 to Women, Work and Community for every 1-pound bag of “My Mom’s Coffee” sold. The coffee is available through the company’s […]
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Otto Pizza is getting its 15 minutes Tuesday
The Cooking Channel will be in town to film a segment on Otto Pizza at its 576 Congress St. restaurant.
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Underwood’s Mom visit is ‘surreal’ but ‘needed’
A generous gesture allows all of Ashley Underwood’s tribe to get a visitor from home.
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Cookbook Corner
Think you don’t have time to put together a Kentucky Derby party this weekend before they call “Riders up”? “The Half-Hour Hostess” (Oxmoor House, $24.95) by Rebecca Kracke Gordon shows you how to do it in 30 minutes, with some advance prep the day before. Gordon shares 35 menus for all kinds of get-togethers, from […]
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Soup to Nuts: Gifts from Mom
Recipes from readers share a key ingredient: warm memories of their mothers.
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Scraps
Earth, the new restaurant opening this month at the Hidden Pond resort in Kennebunkport, is a collaboration with award-winning Boston chef Ken Oringer. The menu will feature local seafoods and meats, as well as produce picked from the resort’s on-site, 800-square-foot organic farm. All of the food will be sourced within a 50-mile radius of […]
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Food & Dining Dispatches
PORTLAND New farmers markets sprouting up around state Portland’s outdoor farmers market began last Saturday in Deering Oaks. But did you know there are new markets starting up this year in Freeport, Yarmouth, Biddeford, Lewiston, Sullivan, Union, Brooks and Princeton? The Freeport markets will be held Fridays, beginning in late May, from 10 a.m. to […]
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Mainer’s got game in log-rolling event
While Ashley Underwood fails to win immunity, she stays alive in another episode of ‘Survivor.’