Deboullie Public Lands unit in Aroostook isn’t easy to reach, but that’s probably why you’ll have it to yourself.
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, Recipes
A salad with figs, prosciutto and sweet-sour dressing hits all the right notes
The pleasant pepperiness of the greens offsets the bold tang of the figs.
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Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Hunting: A brief history of sporting guns
With every war, the technology improves and eventually makes its way to the woods and fields.
Posted inFood, Restaurant reviews
Dine Out Maine: You can’t go wrong with pizza and cocktails at Yarmouth mainstay Gather
But the family-friendly, farm-to-table restaurant can wobble when it stretches to global cuisine.
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: An empty nester brushes up on cooking for 2
How to avoid overeating, over-shopping, wasting food, wasting money and eating a joyless diet of leftovers.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Enjoy leaf-peeping season in your own backyard
These shrubs produce beautiful fall colors and berries, extending the garden season.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Cathleen Schine’s captivating new novel is about word-obsessed twins
‘The Grammarians,’ is ‘written with the tender precision and clarity of a painting by Vermeer.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
A chronicle – in words and pictures – of life above the Arctic Circle
Though Greenland is imperiled by climate change, nature photographer and Maine resident Wilfred Richard finds hope in the resilience of the people of Uummannaq.
Posted inCookbook Reviews, Food, Recipes
Cookbook review: Please give us more of the excellent writing in ‘Extra Helping’
Along with the prose, Janet Reich Elsbach’s new cookbook contains recipes intended to sustain new parents, new neighbors, ill and recovering patients and the grief-stricken.
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Before you recycle that jar, reuse it
Rather than waste water to wash used food jars and tubs, first make vinaigrette, dessert sauce, sweetener for tea and more right in the containers.