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.

Food, Restaurant reviews

Dine In Maine: Restaurants are forced to reinvent themselves

by Andrew Ross April 12, 2020April 11, 2020

Said one restaurateur: “When they said you couldn’t have anybody in the store, it was basically like coming up with a whole new restaurant in a matter of hours.”

Food, Vegan Kitchen

Vegan Kitchen: Coronavirus Diary

by Avery Yale Kamila April 12, 2020April 11, 2020

Vegan Kitchen columnist Avery Yale Kamila cooks, grocery shops, records — and takes the pandemic day by day.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

When Thoreau went to walk in the Maine Woods

by Thomas Urquhart April 12, 2020April 9, 2020

Scholars, conservationists and Penobscot Nation members retrace the famous transcendentalist’s route in this book of essays about his sojourns in the state.