The all-important morning meal takes center stage at the Incredible Breakfast Cook-off, one of many tantalizing events cooked up by the organizers of Maine Restaurant Week 2010.
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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Maine has full serving of nominees for Beard’s ‘best chef in Northeast’
Chefs in Camden, Ogunquit, Portland and Belfast are best-chef nominees
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Dispatches
Lincolnville winery owner named president of guild, Tuscan wine tasting/dinner will be held at Cinque Terre.
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What’s old is new again with holiday potluck gatherings at which only cookies are invited to sit at the table
When it comes to holiday cookies, there are three types of bakers. The first type sticks to an old family recipe like Taylor Swift trying to hold onto the microphone at the VMA Awards. The second type is more like Adam Lambert at the American Music Awards – always pushing the envelope with something new […]
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Roe by roe: A caviar primer
There’s wild or farm-raised, foreign or domestic, in a wide range of prices … so no need to put all your eggs in one tin.
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Happiness is an extremely full stomach and a fat check
Mainer Tim Brown to compete in Costa Vida World Burrito Eating Championship in South Portland as he chews his way through competitive eating ranks.
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Shrimp is served
The abundance of the shellfish at market affords home cooks a rare opportunity – to prepare gourmet cuisine at bargain prices. Hugo’s chef Rob Evans and readers share some creations.
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School-break ritual fades as potato pickers dwindle
But the students in Aroostook County who do work the fields learn lessons to ‘last a lifetime’