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.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Bedside Table

June 21, 2020June 18, 2020

“Confessions of a Bookseller” by Shaun Bythell, 324 pages, Godine. $29.95

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

Stephen King’s latest, a collection of novellas, is scary in unforeseen ways

by Michael Berry June 21, 2020June 19, 2020

The title story, ‘If it Bleeds,” reprises Holly Gibney, King’s current favorite recurring character.

Food, Vegan Kitchen

Vegan Kitchen: The new ‘Maine Bicentennial Cookbook’ reveals the state’s vegetarian flavors

by Avery Yale Kamila June 21, 2020June 18, 2020

While by no means a vegetarian cookbook, a number of the recipes have a vegetarian or vegan bent.

Food, Maine Gardener

Maine Gardener: It’s not too late. Plant now, eat later

by Tom Atwell June 21, 2020June 18, 2020

Borrow a technique from farmers called succession planting.

Food, Recipes

Here is a spring lover’s grain dish

by Joe Yonan The Washington Post June 21, 2020June 18, 2020

An aromatic pilaf topped with two types of peas.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

The elusive truths of Melania Trump

by Jane Eisner Special to The Washington Post June 21, 2020June 18, 2020

Unearthing the First Lady’s history took years, journalist Mary Jordan writes in In “The Art of Her Deal,” as her reporting was stymied by the Trumps’ aggressive attempts to erase Melania’s past.