Rambler Irish Bistro is taking over the former Owl & Elm space.
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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Sparta Sips & Subs set to open in Freeport Thursday
The sandwich shop is owned by a local oyster and kelp farmer.
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Il Leone on Peaks Island to open a spot in Brooklyn
The seasonal outdoor pizza place will re-open next summer as usual, the owner promises.
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Music may feed the soul, but Maine concert venues have to feed the band
Visiting artists aren’t getting cheeseburgers in paradise. Here, it’s more like lobsters in Vacationland.
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Learning an Italian tradition with the ‘pasta queen’ and owner of Rockport’s Nina June
Eating pasta comes naturally; making it at home takes practice. It helps to have the best imaginable teacher.
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Maine Grains is a finalist in first ever ConsciousCPG Awards
The new award recognizes “Purpose, Passion, Planet, People, and Prosperity.”
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What’s for dessert? Tomatoes. For real
Step outside your comfort zone and try a tomato in a dessert. It’s a fruit, after all.
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Onigiri may be a simple snack, but making it takes a little skill
I’ve loved onigiri, a Japanese snack made from rice and seaweed, for 4 decades. But when I tried to make them for the first time, it wasn’t pretty.
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How will Trump’s tax breaks on tips affect Maine workers?
Experts weigh in on how this provision of President Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ will work.
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With time and a goat, you too can make cajeta, Mexican goat’s milk caramel
Food editor Peggy Grodinsky put cajeta on a list of things she wanted to cook in 2025 that she’d never made before. Ya know what else she’d never done before? Milked a goat.