I love, LOVE, to cook, but as the pandemic has gone on and on, this three-meal-a-day-seven-days-a-week cooking routine has gotten old. Food writer Jessica Battilana (who moved from San Francisco to Falmouth last summer) gets it. She has been cooking three meals a day for her family of four since the pandemic began. “I’m good […]
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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How to prep, cook and enjoy stuffed artichokes
Memories of – and a craving for – a mother’s Sicilian dish inspired her daughter to try to replicate it.
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Brockmeier depicts 100 possibilities of afterlife
Each of the stories in Kevin Brockmeier’s story collection can be read in less than 2 distressing minutes.
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A new book called ‘The Healing Garden’ sounds like exactly what we need right now
Deb Soule writes about her garden and herb harvesting at Avena Botanicals.
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In the pandemic, takeout containers are everywhere
What are their impacts on the waste stream?
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How to make your own kashk, a creamy, tangy staple of Iranian cuisine
Before refrigeration, a way to preserve milk, today kashk – a creamy, sour, fermented cousin to sour cream – adds depth and body to many Iranian dishes.
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Bedside Table: Why don’t we know their names? We’ll give you one guess
“I have been reading about women achieving success despite the obstacles that were supposed to hold them back – women who were told they wouldn’t succeed because they were women, books such as “Fly Girls,” “Code Girls,” “Rise of the Rocket Girls, “Code Name: Lise,” “D-Day Girls” and “A Woman of No Importance.” My current […]
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Bedside Table: Moving and profound, this book’s time is now (and always)
“I have the most amazing book to recommend. I have been following Mark Nepo for years now after seeing him interviewed. I bought his “The Book of Awakening” at that time and have since given out 40 copies. The book is one very moving and profound paragraph for each day of the year and absolutely […]
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In Russell Banks’ ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean
The novel shifts in time as protagonist Leo Fife, a fictional Canadian Ken Burns, assesses his past harshly.
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Homefront: An uitsmijter sandwich for pandemic times
“One of my favorites for a hearty breakfast, brunch or lunch is an uitsmijter sandwich. My family is Dutch and this is a traditional item found on the menu at many breakfast and lunch establishments in the Netherlands. Uitsmijter translates as “forcibly throw out,” which is what eating an uitsmijter does to your hunger. A […]