It might be boring, but so will next spring if you’re housebound with nothing to do.
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.
Bedside Table: A Maine Spiritualist camp drew thousands in its early 20th-century heyday
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Think dining out has gotten difficult? Consider it from your server’s point of view.
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During the pandemic, direct sales to customers of veggie burgers are booming
Maine manufacturers of veggie burgers changed their business strategies – and the shift seems to be working.
The simple hack that will guarantee cool, refreshing gazpacho
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