Trips to the grocery store are limited. Even when we can go, we may not find what we need. Keep this useful list of substitutions on hand.
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 inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
The Portland went down in 1898. More than a century later, it still fascinates
The latest book to examine the maritime disaster, ‘The Wreck of the Portland’ does a reasonably good job, but how about giving other lesser-known wrecks a little attention?
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside Table
‘Confessions of the Fox’ by Jordy Rosenberg, One World, 352 pages. $27
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
‘The Red Lotus,’ a new novel with a pandemic plot, is both prescient and diverting
At the start of Chris Bohjalian’s latest book, the boyfriend of an ER doctor disappears while the couple is vacationing in Vietnam. He’s found dead, with mysterious wounds, leaving behind a series of puzzling lies.
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Birding: Stuck inside? Take a virtual trip around the world
The online Birds of the World project, available by subscription, includes thousands of videos and sound recordings.
Posted inFood, Recipes
With gatherings discouraged, Jewish families figure out how to celebrate Passover
Among the many casualties of the coronavirus this spring? An important Jewish holiday. Maine’s Jewish community scrambles to gather virtually.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Gardens can be our salvation right now
Yes, we must stay home to keep ourselves and our communities safe. Luckily, our gardens are contained in the word “home.”
Posted inFood, Recipes
Homefront: A delicious, healthful one-bowl meal
Examine your pantry, figure out what to cook, and then please tell us about it.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Book review: Race, privilege and toilet duty: Life at Harvard for a black freshman in 1959
In ‘The Last Negroes at Harvard,’ Kent Garrett recalls his undergraduate days, and not fondly.
Posted inFood, Vegan Kitchen
Vegan Kitchen: A meat-free diet in Maine is nothing new
In the first half of the 19th-century, some Mainers promoted a vegetarian diet. One doctor wrote that it did for “the wretched invalids what the best medical treatment had utterly failed to do.”