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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PublishedJanuary 21, 2015
You’ve read about Google’s awesome cafeteria. Idexx has Maine’s version
Idexx hopes the way to healthy, productive employees’ hearts is through food – think brick-oven pizza, creative salad toppings, a bake shop, even sushi prepared by a chef on site.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2015
Full Belly Deli, Portland’s only Jewish delicatessen, closes
Oy vey! The restaurant is a victim of high rents and competition from chain restaurants.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2015
Homegrown: Different Drummer ducky
This little wooden duck is as simple as it gets, but you should have heard the “awwwws” it elicited at a baby shower last week. The duck is handmade by Frank Ridley at Different Drummer Workshop in Solon. It’s a small family business that’s been making wooden toys, mostly from white pine, since 1973. Ridley […]
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PublishedJanuary 14, 2015
Ice cream when it’s 11 below out? Are you kidding?
Intrepid reporter Meredith Goad searches out the hard-core ice cream eaters.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2015
Homegrown: Basil flower vinegar from The Maine Accent
The small family business sells what it grows in its gardens just outside Hallowell
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2015
Signature Dish: Long Creek chaplain has raised 13 boys on love and chicken
Dan Mercer’s Champagne Chicken is a beloved favorite in his Scarborough home.
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2015
Homegrown Raspberry-Chocolate Jam
Open a jar of raspberry jam, and you expect to smell raspberries. Open a jar of Above the Dam Jam’s Raspberry Chocolate Jam, and it’s chocolate that comes singing through with the strongest notes. This little family-owned company, based in Dayton, takes seasonal ingredients and develops interesting flavor combinations for its products. Think strawberry-basil jam, […]
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2015
All it’s cracked up to be, Cook’s Lobster House for sale
Market price for the iconic Maine restaurant, which closes for the season Sunday, is $1.79 million.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2014
Mainers, take a bite out of 2015 with these must-tries
Make this the Year of the Stomach with these ‘food experiences’ worth seeking out.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2014
Homegrown: Dill pickles offset season’s excessive sweetness
Maine Homestead’s product has a spicy kick.
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