One ethnic food that is always safe for vegans to eat out or at home is Indian food. A dish that we made last week that just rocked is Indian curry with chickpeas and mango. Just hearing the name and looking at the ingredients, many people would not give it a shot. But look, if […]
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Top these salads
Even well-dressed salads can benefit from a little bling from time to time.
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The strawberry edition
Red, ripe and just about ready for picking, Maine berries bring their sweet something to food and drink.
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The Maine Ingredient: Plain and simple, focaccia lends itself to rosemary-red pepper topping
Focaccia is similar to pizza but is eaten as a snack or an accompaniment to a meal, and is especially delicious with soups and chowders. Since focaccia is not meant to be a meal in itself the toppings (if any) are kept simple and are added in a single layer so they incorporate into the […]
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One cook’s foolproof chicken Caesar
You’ll regularly find chicken Caesar salads, but that doesn’t mean you’ll find them all done well. Common flaws include too much dressing and clunky pieces of chicken. Here’s how I have approached the dish: A roasted-garlic marinade flavors chicken cutlets that are then grilled and cut into bite-size pieces. Chopped garlic and fresh oregano mix […]
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Appel on wine: Let’s add ‘freshness’ to ‘sweet’ and ‘savory’
A couple of years ago, Eric Asimov wrote an article in The New York Times asserting that there were two metacategories for the character of a wine — sweet and savory. Zinfandel, Grenache, California Pinot Noir and Viognier are sweet. Muscadet, Rhone reds, Chablis and traditional Barolo are savory. It’s a useful distinction, because with […]
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Rolling billboards must yield to Maine’s ban
But enforcement action against the ad trucks, like the one roving through the area this month, is unusual.
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Using cattle as cash cows
At a bank in Zimbabwe, owners deposit their animals as collateral against monetary loans.
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Knox’s acquittal for murder faulted by Italy’s high court
ROME – Italy’s high court on Tuesday harshly faulted the appeals court that acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, saying its ruling was full of “deficiencies, contradictions and illogical” conclusions. It ordered a new appeals court to consider all the evidence to determine whether Knox helped kill the young woman. In March, […]
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Historian of Nazi atrocity dies at 84
William Slany, a top State Department historian who helped oversee a study in the 1990s that exposed Nazi looting of Jewish property and that led to $8 billion in belated compensation for Holocaust victims and their families, died May 13 at his home in Reston, Va. He was 84. The cause was heart ailments, said […]