“I just finished reading ‘Winter Solstice’ by the British romance novelist Rosamunde Pilcher. I am sad to have ended it, as I loved the characters, the wonderful Scottish setting, and the peacefully meandering storyline. The book features five marginally connected characters who find themselves sharing an estate in the north of Scotland as the Christmas […]
Peggy Grodinsky
Staff Writer
Peggy is the editor of the Food & Dining section and the books page at the Portland Press Herald. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a Boston-based national magazine published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle. Peggy has taught food writing to graduate students at New York University and Harvard Extension School. She worked for seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York and spent a year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” in 2017 and in “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” in 2008.
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In ‘Margreete’s Harbor,’ midcentury America’s social upheavals reach coastal Maine
Major social and political movements of the 1950s and ’60s steer Eleanor Morse’s minutely observed multigenerational family saga.
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The mothers of the baking world, sourdough starters worth celebrating too
Meet the cultures, also known as ‘mothers,’ that are behind the local breads you love.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside Table: A 100-plus-year-old book proves illuminating
“I recently made a foray to the upstairs library in our old family farm, where generations have left their favorite books behind. I picked up ‘The Enemies of Women’ by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, printed in 1920, just after World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic. Interestingly, the latter isn’t mentioned in the book. The […]
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
In a new year, new beekeepers get new bees and vow to make some changes
Plus, they make the best of a bad situation by extracting honey. A lot of honey.
Posted inFood
Go green with your wine
Choose cans or boxes, drink local and consider farming practices.
Posted inFood, Vegan Kitchen
The controversial Seaspiracy documentary may make you rethink your dinner choices
The film, which charges the global fishing industry is “at war with the oceans,” has angered the fishing community.
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A grandmother, mother and daughter are trapped in a cabin by a violent sociopath
In Jen Waite’s first novel, the scary setup allows many family secrets to be revealed. And the tension ratchets up and up.
Posted inFood, Recipes
Chickpeas, tomatoes and za’atar are the stars of this fun pizza on a pita
Just 20 minutes of prep work and a bit of oven time results in a healthful, untraditional pizza.
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Wrestling with the strategy – and morality – of the firebombing of Japan
A single raid on Tokyo on a March 1945 night, led to a fire that killed 100,000 people.
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