Now that he’s gone, cookbooks fill in the gap.
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.
Fluffy grated egg delivers a pop of color and protein to this creamy cucumber salad
Salting and draining the sliced cucumbers helps keep them crunchy.
In Bruce Robert Coffin’s latest whodunit, the beautiful maitre d’ of a gourmet restaurant in Portland turns up dead
The answer to the mystery may be ‘Within Plain Sight,’ but it takes the debonair Det. John Byron to unravel it.
Homefront: A hot summer day calls for a chilled beet soup
Bonus: The magenta soup is beautiful.
Vegan Kitchen: Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the veganist city of all?
Our very own Portland ranks high in national vegan surveys of all sorts.
Book review: What does it mean to be an American? ‘Union’ looks at the answers
Colin Woodard’s newest eye-opening history delves into the struggle to answer the question through the writings of five Americans.
Bedside Table
Reader Elizabeth J. Bachelder Smith keeps a stack of diverse books, fiction and non, on her nightstand.
At Action Park, danger was the main attraction
The New Jersey amusement park was the site of disembodied teeth, wipe-outs and even fatalities.
A middle school teacher from Freeport wins crime flash fiction contest
Need an escape from the bad news about the pandemic and the economy? Er, try this?
Maine Gardener: True compost is hard to create, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try
How to put your table scraps, leaves and grass clippings to use.