It’s complicated.
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 inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Local food has filled gaps in supply chains disrupted by the pandemic
Experts urge customers not to abandon local producers in favor of cheap, supermarket food once the shutdown ends.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Flash Fiction Contest
The coronavirus is bad for our health and bad for the economy, but its side effect, quarantine, could be the perfect setting for crime fiction. The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Two Minutes in Quarantine Flash Fiction contest opens Thursday. Maine mystery writer Julia Spencer-Fleming will write a “deadly” opening sentence as a starting point […]
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Let a hundred flowers bloom
Planting vegetables lets you eat locally all summer long. But don’t forget the power, and beauty, of flowers.
Posted inFood, Recipes
Peas, asparagus and pucker spell spring
Spring salad never tasted so good, thanks to a lively quick-pickle marinade.
Posted inBusiness, Food
Restaurants get creative to keep diners distant and maintain an ambience
From life-size cardboard cutouts of diners to canned customer chatter, restaurants across the world are figuring out the new normal restaurant experience.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Race, class and an island in Maine all play a role in this sprawling family saga
In ‘The Guest Book,’ the secrets and lies told by the Milton family over generations – to outsiders and to each other – begin to unravel.
Posted inFood, Recipes
Simmering chicken in chocolate milk sounds strange, but …
Turns out, it’s delicious.
Posted inNews, Source
A letter from the editor of Source
Things are slowly beginning to open up again, but doubtless you remember the cascading news in the early weeks of the pandemic, much of it summed up by a single word: “canceled.” Like every other organization in America – make that the world – we had to decide early on how to go forward with […]
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Meet the 2020 Russell Libby Agricultural Scholarship winners
A dairy farmer, a future flower farmer and an elementary school teacher who is engaging students in growing vegetables each received $1,500 to help them reach their (organic) goals.