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 21, 2014
Soup to Nuts: Portland restaurants ramp up for summer tourist season
Portland’s food and drink purveyors are ready and waiting for summer crowds.
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PublishedMay 20, 2014
From farms to tables, a shopper disconnect in Maine
A survey finds most Mainers want to buy local foods, but need more help finding them through clear labeling and source information.
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PublishedMay 18, 2014
Carthage woman wrote the book on keeping a family cow
Joann Grohman’s homesteading classic, first published in 1975, has been revised and updated for a new generation.
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PublishedMay 14, 2014
Soup to Nuts: Dining (way) out
Twelve miles out to sea on Vinalhaven, the new restaurant Salt focuses on local ingredients because it wants to and it has to.
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PublishedMay 14, 2014
Dressin’ up the dog
The Blue Rooster in Portland unveils a lineup of inspired wieners created by Maine chefs.
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PublishedMay 11, 2014
Brenda Erickson turns favorite recipes into watercolor art
The Round Pond resident brings fresh, local foods to (still) life.
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PublishedMay 11, 2014
You say farmer’s, and I say farmers
If you say farmers’, let’s call the whole thing off: The apostrophe apostasy, market style.
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PublishedMay 7, 2014
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 […]
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PublishedMay 7, 2014
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.
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PublishedApril 30, 2014
Soup to Nuts: Levey Day School in Portland to celebrate with kosher barbecue
A brand-new smoker and cooking implements are purified for the Jewish school’s 60th anniversary on Sunday.
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