Your choice of potato salad may spark a spirited debate, but there’s no disputing its place near the top of the Fourth of July menu.
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: Declare independence from unimaginative cocktails
Celebrate the Fourth with these all-American cocktails – courtesy of the friendly bartenders at four classic Maine seaside inns.
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Maine winery wins Double Gold
Cellardoor Winery in Lincolnville won the medal with its Artist Series Grenache.
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Soup to Nuts: It’s all Greek to ME
The ladies of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church have been toiling for months over baklava, spanakopita and all manner of ethnic delectables. Beginning Thursday, the public gets a taste at the 2010 Greek Food Festival.
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Cookbook Corner: “Making Whoopies: The Official Whoopie Pie Book”
Whoopie pies, the sweet specialty cakes once not widely found outside of New England and Pennsylvania, are suddenly hip and spreading from coast to coast. Bakeries around the country are developing all sorts of gourmet versions of the yummy confections. Instead of the classic cream-filled chocolate cakes that have put a gooey smile on so […]
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Books Q & A: They couldn’teat another bite
Andrew Caldwell’s new book dishes on the last meals of the stiff and famous.
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Cookbook Corner: ‘Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood’
Country music star Trisha Yearwood’s new cookbook, “Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood” (Clarkson Potter $29.99), won’t necessarily make hardcore cooks want to run to the kitchen and start whipping up her Cowboy Lasagne. But if you have a country music fan in the family, you probably can’t miss with this accessible cookbook that’s full of […]
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Havana South to open with Latin fare, flair
Havana South, the highly anticipated new restaurant at 44-50 Wharf St. in Portland, starts a series of invitation-only events and soft openings tonight. Workers have been scrambling the past week to put the finishing touches on the place, which is scheduled to open to the public Tuesday. The $500,000 project is bringing 60 new full-time […]
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You, sampling great food for a good cause: Gourmet Garden Crawl gets an A+
Want to feel like a kid again? Board a propane-powered school bus Sunday and you’ll be shuttled to three different elementary and middle schools. But when you get off the bus, instead of facing a crossing guard, you’ll be greeted by gourmet chefs ready to school you in the pleasures of fresh local foods. Rippling […]
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Cookbook Corner, June 9
“A White House Garden Cookbook: Healthy Ideas from the First Family for Your Family” (Red Rock Press, $24.95) by Clara Silverstein is a season-by-season account of the garden Michelle Obama had installed on White House grounds. If you’re trying to get your child to eat more vegetables, this book contains lots of kid-friendly recipes from […]