Many people tell Meredith Goad that she has the best job in Maine, and most of the time she agrees. Maine has a crazy appetite for food stories, and it’s Meredith’s job to satisfy those cravings with juicy tales from chefs, food producers, local farms, and the state’s fast-growing restaurant scene. Her work appears in Wednesday’s Business section and the Sunday Food & Dining section, and occasionally, but not as often as she’d like, on the front page. A native of Memphis, Tenn., Meredith shamelessly flaunts her knowledge of good barbecue in front of her Yankee friends. She earned a bachelor of science degree in wildlife biology from Colorado State University, then studied science writing at the University of Missouri, where she received a master’s degree in journalism. She spent the first 20 years of her career covering science and environmental news, then switched to features in 2004, just as Portland’s food scene was taking off. Her own most memorable meal? Back in the 1980s, on assignment in Finland, she shared a dinner of reindeer and Russian vodka with Maryland’s governor and a bunch of hungry scientists. Meredith lives in Portland, but spends much of her time off back in Tennessee - either visiting family, or in online archives, researching her family’s history.
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PublishedMay 17, 2016
Salty Sally’s Bar & Grille will open in June on Congress Street
The restaurant will feature upscale pub food, with some dishes that pull from chef Dave Mallari’s Filipino heritage, plus a full bar.
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PublishedMay 16, 2016
Brea Lu Cafe closes on Forest Ave. after ‘devastating’ fire
But the owner says he plans to reopen soon in a new spot outside Portland, but ‘very close.’
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PublishedMay 15, 2016
Heirloom rattles shake, rattle and roll
Infants love to play with these wooden ‘heirloom rattles’ handmade by a pediatrician in Augusta.
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PublishedMay 10, 2016
New York chef to open oyster bar and restaurant in Kennebunk
Rebecca Charles of Pearl Oyster Bar, the Manhattan restaurant that introduced New Yorkers to lobster rolls, has purchased the former Abbondante Trattoria.
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PublishedMay 9, 2016
Snack bar maker Kate McAleer named Tory Burch Foundation Fellow
The owner of Bixby & Co. in Rockland wins $10,000 and a trip to New York to meet the designer.
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PublishedMay 8, 2016
Maine man makes baskets for bicycles out of old lobster traps
The baskets are quick release, so you can unlatch them when you arrive at your destination, and your belongings won’t become bait for a thief.
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PublishedMay 4, 2016
Chef burnout: Some find new life outside Maine’s all-consuming food scene
The stress and hours of running a restaurant can ruin marriages, they say, and it’s worth changing careers to get marriages, weekends, holidays – their very lives – back.
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PublishedMay 3, 2016
Maine chef wins the opportunity to create a three-part Web series
Erin French, owner of The Lost Kitchen, took second place in the Create Cooking Challenge.
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PublishedMay 2, 2016
No Maine winners in the James Beard Awards
Three Maine chefs and one brewmaster were nominated, but none earns the coveted medal.
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PublishedMay 1, 2016
Prepare for the harvest with Pike’s Original Maine Garden Hod
This handy wire basket allows you to clean your vegetables outdoors, sparing your kitchen from the dirt.
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