The growing demand for local and sustainable food brings Americans back to the lean, versatile meat.
May 2014
Cool drink alternatives can replace pricey limes
Other fruits, and even vegetables, imitate the sweet and sour of cocktails made with the traditional citrus.
The Maine Ingredient: Crab quiche well worth the whisk
Add a Greek salad, cookies and strawberries for a Mother’s Day meal you’ll relish.
Soup to Nuts: Kitchens open for food comfort tour
A quintet of cool cooking corners will be on view for the Portland Kitchen Tour to benefit the Center for Grieving Children.
Wine: Exceptional arneis neither myth nor oxymoron
There’s a subtle sort of exoticism to Malvira wines, produced in Italy’s Roero subregion.
Drinking your fruit and vegetables
Despite big claims about the benefits of juicing, some nutritionists caution it is no cure-call.
Food Dispatches
PORTLAND Sweetgrass gives moms taste of treats and wines Sweetgrass Winery & Distillery in Union is bringing its annual Mother’s Day event to its new Old Port shop on Sunday. The event pairs chocolates made by Maine chocolatiers with this year’s vintage wines and spirits from Sweetgrass. The tasting will run from 11 a.m. to […]
Gardiner man charged with murdering dad
RICHMOND The son of the man found dead in Richmond Monday morning has now been charged with murder, state police say. According to a press release issued Tuesday night by Steve McCausland of the Maine Department of Public Safety, 24-year-old Leroy Smith III was notified of the murder charge at the Cumberland County Jail, where […]
Cleanup is slow, but store hopes to reopen in June
FREEPORT Gone in a puff of smoke — Ryan and Michelle Doherty learned the true meaning of this expression when they lost their Freeport store’s entire inventory after a March fire. Ryan said he arrived at Doherty’s North Freeport Store — a mom-andpop store built by Ryan’s father 40 years ago — at 5 a.m. […]
Landlord facing charges
BRUNSWICK A complaint of a theft has led to a man being arrested and accused of pointing a shotgun at his tenant Tuesday in Brunswick. Peter Davis, 57, is being charged with one count of criminal threatening and terrorizing; both are class C felonies, according to Brunswick Deputy Police Chief Marc Hagan. Hagan said that […]