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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, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Upcycle Halloween candy into truffles, pudding and cake
Employ these baking tricks to turn unpopular Halloween leavings into real treats: Butterfinger Truffles, Whopper Bread Pudding and Almond Joy Bundt Cake.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: Fact and fiction, present times and past blend in this New England mystery
“‘Point of Graves’ is a great work of fiction. Facts are bent, and the outcomes will grip readers and draw them in. Mark Twain knew that playing fast and loose with facts makes for great storytelling: ‘Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please,’ he famously said. Writer J. Dennis Robinson’s […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
In ‘Hide and Don’t Seek,’ the stories are short, but the creepiness lingers
A Deer Isle native’s new book for children could prove ‘a gateway drug to Stephen King.’
Posted inFood, Vegan Kitchen
An annual Halloween transformation, and no we don’t mean small children turning into ghosts
This mom makes her child’s candy disappear and magically replaces it with vegan versions of the sweet treats.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden
Solnit’s ‘Orwell’s Roses’ is the story of a life that doesn’t read like a typical biography.
Posted inBusiness, Food, Local & State, News
Bypassing the ‘headache of downtown,’ food businesses gravitate toward Forest Avenue
Space for production, commuter traffic and a community of customers are among the draws for food shops and restaurants moving to the strip between Woodfords and Morrill’s corners.
Posted inDo This, Food
Eat & Run: Cong Tu Bot is the way breakfast should be
The restaurant has transformed itself, and it just might be better than ever.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Another gardening season draws to a close
The weather was weird, very dry, then very wet, and often unusually warm. But by and large, the plants didn’t complain.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Book review: In an unusually told biography, writer Rachel Field lives again
Biographer Robin Clifford Wood has an unusual advantage in telling her subject’s life story – she lives in Field’s former house on an island in Maine. That house, Wood argues, had an outsize impact on Field.
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