For you surgical-strike holiday shoppers (or are you just procrastinators?), Meredith’s quick-hit list of what’s hot in the kitchen.
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: Kitting around
Can you make a charming, even tasty gingerbread house from one of the many kits on the market? Our investigator presents the evidence to a panel of judges.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘Soups, Stews & Chilis’
If you’re like me, you practically live off of soup during the winter in Maine. The combinations of ingredients seem endless, yet somehow it’s still easy to get stuck in a rut making the same old soup over and over again. This winter, I’ll be poring through “Soups, Stews & Chilis” from the editors of […]
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Soup to Nuts: A taste for painting
ROUND POND — It may sound like a clich?but Brenda Erickson’s paintings really do look good enough to eat.
That’s because they’re watercolors of favorite family recipes.
With titles like “Mom’s Spaghetti,” “MaryLou’s Fish Chowder” and “Merriam Family Camp Apple Pie,” Erickson’s work preserves memories of holiday dishes, grandmothers’ treats and just good old home cooking.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘Winter Harvest Cookbook’
After you visit one of the winter farmers’ markets that are popping up around Maine, well, then what do you do with all that produce? The 20th-anniversary edition of the “Winter Harvest Cookbook” by Lane Morgan (New Society Publishers, $24.95) has plenty of ideas. The book has been revised and updated with more than 200 […]
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Cookbook Corner: ‘Fine Cooking Appetizers’
Thanksgiving marks the launch of holiday party season, and that means trying to climb out of the onion dip-and-scallops-wrapped-in-bacon rut. How about switching it up with some Greek feta and olive oil dip instead, or prosciutto-wrapped shrimp with rosemary oil? You’ll find plenty of options in “Fine Cooking Appetizers: 200 Recipes for Small Bites with […]
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Food & Dining Dispatches, Nov. 24, 2010
PORTLAND Whoopie pie throwdown will air on Dec. 8, 10 and 11 Cranberry Island Kitchen’s whoopie pie throwdown with Food Network star Bobby Flay will air at 9 p.m. Dec. 8, according to Carol Ford, one of the owners of the popular Portland bakery. If you miss it the first time, the whoopie pie episode […]
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Whoopie Pie Throwdown airs Dec. 8
Cranberry Island Kitchen’s whoopie pie throwdown with Food Network star Bobby Flay was filmed a few weeks ago at Grace Restaurant.
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Free Thanksgiving meal for Freeport, Pownal
The Azure Cafe teams up each year with Freeport Community Services to put on the event, which last year drew 120 people.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘At Home with Madhur Jaffrey’
If you like Indian food but don’t like spending hours shopping for spices or tracking down hard to find ingredients, Madhur Jaffrey makes it easy for you. Her new cookbook, “At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, & Sri Lanka” (Alfred A. Knopf, $35), starts with simpler recipes and uses […]