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Leslie Bridgers
Columnist
Leslie Bridgers is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald, writing about Maine culture, customs and the things we notice and wonder about in our everyday lives. Originally from Connecticut, Leslie came to Maine by way of Bowdoin College and never left. She joined the Portland Press Herald in 2011 as a reporter and spent seven years as the paper’s features editor, overseeing coverage of arts, entertainment and food.
Posted inFood
Cheap kitchen tools we use all the time
Doing what I do means my kitchen is stocked with a variety of big-ticket pieces of equipment, whether that be my beloved stand mixer or colorful enameled cast-iron Dutch ovens. But as any cook will tell you, some of the best, most functional tools are the ones that cost a fraction of the price. I […]
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Art review: The age of irony lives on at Cove Street Arts
Two shows at the Portland gallery, ‘Repartee’ and ‘Dance Me To the End,’ both juxtapose works to convey broader messages.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘Bel-Air’ is ‘Fresh Prince’ without any of the things that made it special
Unlike the popular 1990s sitcom, this reimagined version gets bogged down with gloomy, self-serious themes.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
The real story of ‘Inventing Anna,’ Netflix’s show about the fake heiress who scammed the rich and powerful
Netflix’s limited series mostly stays faithful to the actual details of a scam orchestrated by Anna Sorokin, who pretended to be a wealthy German heiress.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
With ‘Death on the Nile,’ Kenneth Branagh humanizes Hercule Poirot
The latest Agatha Christie adaptation includes a top-notch cast and an entertaining plot twist.
Posted inRecipes
This stunning radicchio and grapefruit salad is pleasingly bitter
Color compelled me to create this salad – I was drawn in by the variety of red winter produce at the market and had the urge to bring it together. But while the resulting dish turned out as beautifully as I had hoped, I was surprised to realize that the element that made it so […]
Posted inRecipes
Roast sausages over cabbage and sauerkraut for a hearty, tangy sheet-pan meal
It can take a cabbage anywhere from 40 to 150 days to grow to full size. Smaller cabbages, like bok choy, mature rather quickly. But larger ones, such as quintal d’alsace, the massive green and white cabbages that thrive in Alsace in Northeastern France, spend many months in the ground. They grow so large that […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine, Review
Concert review: In return to folk roots, Anaïs Mitchell finds friendly crowd at Merrill
The singer-songwriter from Vermont, joined Thursday by her backing band and trio Bonny Light Horseman, mostly performed songs from her new self-titled album.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Indie Film: Buxton filmmaker’s fantasy series is based on her unsettling dreams
Brooke Grondin is raising money to film the pilot for ‘The City of Children.’