When you are busy and hungry, four adjectives plus two ingredients add up to kitchen magic: quick, simple, satisfying, versatile, potatoes and herring.
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.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
A riveting blend of reportage and memoir reveals the secrets of a paper mill town
In ‘Mill Town,” Mexico native Kerri Arsenault wrestles with the personal and public toll of toxic pollution from the mill that “smelled like money.”
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Posted inBusiness, Food
Harvest on the Harbor is canceled
The event, which normally attracts crowds to Portland for a food-and-drinks festival in October, will be back next year, organizers say.
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Yes, there is a correct way to cut the cheese
Plus, a recipe for crackers that are not Cheez-Its, but are just as addictive.
Posted inBusiness, Food
Dine Out: Maine restaurants warm up to prepaid tickets
Some local restaurant chefs are experimenting with a prepaid, ticket-based model for dinners, which hold special appeal during a pandemic.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
How to turn annuals into perennials – of sorts
Some annuals in your garden have monetary or sentimental value. Here’s how to keep them for another year.
Posted inFood, Recipes, Vegan Kitchen
You can’t go to the Common Ground Fair, but you can enjoy its vegan food
These recipes should hold you until 2021.
Posted inFood
Dine Out: The restaurant industry is forever changed, for worse and for better
There will be no returning to ‘normal’ after the pandemic.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Virtual doesn’t suffice. Tina Ingraham’s paintings must be experienced in person
Behind the unabashed romanticism of her work lies serious skill and technique.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
The mysterious lives and enduring allure of whales
In the lyrical ‘Fathoms,’ Rebecca Giggs writes about marine mammals that survived centuries of intensive hunting, yet are now again under threat.