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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PublishedMarch 19, 2013
Portland chefs win ‘Best New Chef’ contest
Chefs Andrew Taylor and Mike Wiley of Eventide Oyster Co. take top regional honors in the annual Food & Wine contest.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2013
Best Chef finalist a ‘Primo’ example of farm to table
The chef/owner of Primo is the only James Beard Award nominee from Maine this year.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2013
Author Q & A: dot.crime
A new book by York’s J.A. Hitchcock offers horror stories of cyber misdeeds.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2013
New restaurants opening in Portland this spring
Eleven new restaurants and a handful of bars are opening soon.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2013
Soup to Nuts: A peek through the new Porthole
New owner Ken Macgowan candidly addresses ‘the rat issue,’ among many other topics, as he discusses the next incarnation of the venerable waterfront eatery.
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PublishedMarch 12, 2013
Longtime Portland eatery to close
The Oriental Table on Exchange Street is expected to close at the end of March, and its future is uncertain.
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PublishedMarch 12, 2013
Portland Harbor Hotel’s Ice Bar raises $18K
The beneficiaries are The Trauma Intervention Program of Portland, the Root Cellar, and Share Our Strength of Southern Maine.
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PublishedMarch 11, 2013
Portland chefs nominated for ‘Best New Chef’
Food & Wine magazine runs the annual contest, which allows the public to vote from for one of 100 outstanding chefs from 10 different regions.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2013
Maine Restaurant Week finale? They eat it up
Maine chefs and mixologists seek honors for their choicest creations at Sunday’s Signature Event.
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PublishedMarch 9, 2013
Maine’s dairy farms in twilight
The state’s dwindling milk producers toil every day in operations that are particularly fraught with financial uncertainty. Is it any wonder some are closing the barn doors for good?
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