Writer Mira Ptacin skillfully blends history, contemporary storytelling and memoir in ‘The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna.’
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.
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Green Plate Special: Maine’s fishermen are counting on you to eat local flounder
Trust us, this is no hardship.
Posted inFood, Restaurant reviews
Dine Out Maine: Contrasting ideas are at the heart of Miyake
Go for the high-end sushi. Stay for the more casual dishes. Together, they add up to four stars.
Posted inFood, Recipes
Get the bold flavors of a Jamaican beef patty with these collard leaf wraps
The recipe will make you blanch – but just go with it.
Posted inCookbook Reviews, Food, Recipes
A vegan diet definitely doesn’t translate to deprivation
‘Vegan Everything’ makes that clear from the cover to the last page.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Now’s the time to prune your shrubs and small trees
In March, the plants are still dormant, the weather isn’t (usually) too bad, and you have an unobstructed view of the branches.
Posted inFood, Recipes, Uncategorized
Canned tomatoes are pantry all-stars
Here’s how to choose and use them.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
All the presidents’ books
In ‘Author in Chief,’ Craig Fehrman tells little-known stories about how presidents, or their ghostwriters, produced, published and sold their books.
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Ask a Naturalist: Doesn’t that red-winged blackbird realize it’s February?
Wildlife questions from real Mainers answered by Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox