Jane Manchester has been cooking her late mother’s recipes for her elderly father as a way to share memories.
Peggy Grodinsky
Staff Writer
Peggy Grodinsky has been the food editor at the Portland Press Herald since 2014. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a now-defunct national magazine that was published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle, seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York, and a (magical) year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” (2017) and “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” (2008).
Posted inBooks, Food, Life & Culture
For children, the pages of books hold menus of tasty comforts
We asked a few experts why so many children’s books feature food.
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Maine restaurateur Dana Street wins James Beard Award
The founder of Fore Street, Scales, Standard Baking Co., and Street and Co., all in Portland, took home the Outstanding Restaurateur award.
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Portersfield Cider in Pownal to close after this season
David Buchanan has been producing artisanal hard cider since 2017.
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Beat the Maine heat with cold soups
These three recipes from Mainers can get you started.
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Cartoonist Roz Chast’s donated prints raise money for Portland food nonprofit
Food for All Services will use the donation to deliver food to Maine’s immigrant and low-income communities.
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Freeport writer compiles 25 botanical projects you can do, too
In a new book, Kerry Michaels makes art from her garden.
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Taj Indian Cuisine recognized for giving
The Maine Public Health Association is to name the South Portland restaurant a Public Health Business Champion.
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All-day restaurant and bar opens in Searsport
Scullery Made Deli serves breakfast and lunch sandwiches by day, then morphs into a bar with small plates in the evenings.
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This 1,500-mile running of the bees brings 21 million workers to Maine’s blueberry barrens
After spending the winter in Florida, millions of bees from Maya’s Apiary join the snowbirds journeying to Maine, to pollinate the state’s wild blueberry crop.