Ashley Underwood, a former Miss Maine and basketball star who’s now playing the rough-and-tumble game of “Survivor,” discovered in Wednesday night’s episode that her tender sensibilities simply couldn’t tolerate another contestant’s weird personality and nasty underwear. “Phillip, I cannot stand him,” Underwood said, describing her feelings toward her tribemate Phillip Sheppard, a strange character who […]
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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These are a few of Maine chefs’ . . . favorite things
Saveur magazine has its Saveur 100: Chefs’ Edition. Here, in honor of Maine Restaurant Week, we present the “Maine 20.”
We asked 20 southern and midcoast Maine chefs who are participating in Restaurant Week to write a little about their favorite new ingredient, food product, book, kitchen tool or trick, restaurant dish — anything they have discovered during the past year and now can’t live without.
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The Incredible Breakfast Cook-off
Nobody minds getting up early for this benefit’s sweet and savory dishes.
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The Good Table Wins Incredible Breakfast Cook-Off. Again.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That was Lisa Kostopoulos’ strategy going into the Second Annual Incredible Breakfast Cook-off Friday morning. Kostopoulos, owner of The Good Table Restaurant in Cape Elizabeth, won the contest last year with her “sticky and sweet, bring you to your knees delicious” Creme Brulee French Toast. So she decided […]
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Dining and Drink: Hurricane Warning
It’s Mardi Gras – time for the fruity drink with the fearsome punch.
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Mainer holding immunity idol for her tribe
Ashley Underwood endures another week, while one of the best players falls.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘Slow Cooker Revolution’
Yes, it seems like we just reviewed an America’s Test Kitchen cookbook, but it’s nasty outside, we’re still cold to our bones, and there’s a slow cooker cookbook on the desk begging us to make some last-days-of-winter comfort food. The test kitchen ran 30 slow cookers a day over several months to develop more than […]
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Food & Dining Dispatches, March 2, 2011
The dispatch datelined Scarborough was changed on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 1:38 p.m. to clarify that the Meat House will donate money to the St. Clair family for meat sold on Tuesdays, not every day of the week. ROCKLAND Lily Bistro chefs, owners set to feed New Yorkers Lily Bistro, 421 Main St., has […]
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It’s the bartenders’ night to mix it up
It will be Portland bartenders’ night to shine Monday when they showcase their talents at two splashy events. The second annual Cold River Bartenders Bash will pit 20 cocktail slingers against each other from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at Ocean Gateway on the waterfront. Their challenge: Create “The Ultimate Cold River Cocktail” with the Freeport-based […]
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Maine’s ‘Survivor’ keeping a low profile
But Ashley Underwood speaks up by calling a tribe member’s bipartisan moves ‘not cool.’