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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PublishedSeptember 7, 2011
Chefs descend on Ogunquit
The annual “East Meets West” event features themed lunches and dinners, book signings, garden tours and the extremely popular Grand Fair tasting.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2011
Cookbook Corner: ‘The Cakebread Cellars American Harvest Cookbook’
“The Cakebread Cellars American Harvest Cookbook: Celebrating Wine, Food and Friends in the Napa Valley” by Jack and Dolores Cakebread and Brian Streeter (Ten Speed Press, $35) is the kind of book that fills you with regret: Why, oh why, didn’t I chuck graduate school back in the day and move to California to buy […]
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2011
Soup to Nuts: Pie on the Fly
Reesa Kashuk and three friends, all Colby College students, lounged in the grass waiting for their hand-tossed pizza topped with organic ingredients to finish baking in Bennett Collins’ mobile wood-fired oven set up on Route 1B in Damariscotta.
Collins, who lives in Bremen, is one of four artisan pizza makers whose mobile ovens have been appearing around Maine on roadsides and at farmers markets, public events and private parties.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2011
PMA chief curator leaving for Shelburne Museum
Thomas Denenberg begins his new job in Shelburne, Vt., on Nov. 1.
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PublishedSeptember 4, 2011
Author Q & A: Fresh fare
Writer Kathy Gunst cooks up a new book that illustrates through food what it’s like to live in Maine year-round.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2011
Cookbook Corner: ‘How to Fix a Leek & Other Food from Your Farmers’ Market’
Sandra Garson’s “How to Fix a Leek & Other Food from Your Farmers’ Market” was first published 20 years ago and was, perhaps, way ahead of its time. This revised version appears as the number of farmers markets is exploding around Maine and the rest of the country. Garson, who lives in West Bath, follows […]
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PublishedAugust 31, 2011
Soup to Nuts: Healthy school lunchis in the bag (or box)
If anyone should know how to pack a healthy school lunch, it would be Dr. Dora Anne Mills, former director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention – and a recently converted “veganish” vegetarian.
Yet every year, she still struggles to find good-for-you foods that her children, ages 9 and 12, will actually eat. She has even dreamed up her idea of the perfect school lunch: It’s plant-based, as fresh as possible, very low in fat and high-fructose corn syrup, has gone through little processing, is environmentally friendly and served in a reusable container (and lunch box).
And, oh yes, it can be prepared in five minutes the night before.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2011
Scraps – Stuff we’ve heard about this ‘n’ that, Aug. 31, 2011
• Christopher Godin is re-opening an old Portland favorite, Granny’s Burritos, in the Public Market House in Monument Square. He’s planning a grand opening event for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, according to his announcement on Facebook, but says that’s a tentative date (maybe even “recklessly optimistic”), and it may take longer to get […]
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PublishedAugust 31, 2011
Food & Dining Dispatches, Aug. 31, 2011
AUBURN Food pantry asks Mainers to skip a meal for charity The Good Shepherd Food Bank is inviting Mainers to participate in Hunger Action Month in September by skipping a meal and donating the money they would have spent on that meal to a local food pantry. To participate, go to the Good Shepherd website […]
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PublishedAugust 25, 2011
Local coffee roaster places first in national contest
Dylan Hardman was on a team with other roasters from Seattle, Texas and Oregon.
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