Set in a fictional Maine town, Joseph Souza’s latest thriller is well-meaning but clumsily done.
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 inOutdoors, Sports
Birding: Saltmarsh sparrows are exceptional, but in steep decline
The species has been reduced by nearly 80 percent in the last 15 years, down to about 30,000 birds.
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Posted inFood
Seasoned diner has a plea for restaurateurs: Please turn down the volume
The dining scene in Maine has never been more exciting – or noisier.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Midseason, a columnist takes stock of the garden
Blooms and vegetables are late but plentiful.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
‘Lady in the Lake’ is Laura Lippman’s love letter to Baltimore and its people
Her ambitious novel weaves some 20 points of view into a seamless, vivid whole, adding up to an intricate quilt of the city in the 1960s.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
‘Elvis in Vegas’ is a gem of pop culture history
It tells a fascinating tale of how America’s adult playground helped the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll get his groove back.
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Take the pledge: MOFGA wants you to eat local and organic in August
Support farmers and farm animals, pollinators, Maine’s economy and good health – both the soil’s and your own.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
In Roxana Robinson’s latest novel, her great-grandparents are embroiled in struggles of Reconstruction
Part real, part fiction, ‘Dawson’s Fall’ traces a principled couple as they try to navigate the moral complexities of the post-Civil War South.
Posted inOutdoors
What’s Up in August: Jupiter and Saturn continue to rule the night sky
The Perseid meteor shower peaks in August, but the approaching full moon means the show won’t be as good as usual.
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Berries past their peak? Not to worry
Whatever you do, don’t throw them out. Terrific ways to transform mushy berries abound.