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, Maine Gardener

Maine Gardener: Beautiful flower arrangements spring from fall’s bounty

by Tom Atwell November 3, 2019October 31, 2019

Think beyond the blossom. Seed pods, dried hydrangea and alliums, and many others are naturals in a vase.

Green Plate Special: There’s no time like the present to buy local charcuterie

by Christine Burns Rudalevige November 3, 2019October 31, 2019

Thinly sliced local salami and fennel can really dress up a pizza.

Food, Maine Gardener

Maine Gardener: Gardening is really time spent hauling stuff around

by Tom Atwell October 27, 2019October 23, 2019

You’ll need proper tools to expedite the work.

Outdoors, Sports

Hunting: When is the best time to hunt deer?

by Bob Humphrey October 27, 2019November 2, 2019

There’s no simple answer.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

A woman is brutally murdered in the aisles of a big box store

by Frank O Smith October 27, 2019October 23, 2019

Jack McMorrow witnesses the seemingly senseless murder, and as clues pile up in ‘Random Act,’ the 12th in Gerry Boyle’s McMorrow series, he begins to wonder if it’s as random as it seemed.