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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PublishedAugust 24, 2011
Cookbook Corner: ‘The Herbal Kitchen’
“The Herbal Kitchen: 50 Easy-to-Find Herbs and Over 250 Recipes to Bring Lasting Health to You and Your Family” by Kami McBride (Conari Press, $18.95) will be most helpful to people who are already knowledgeable about herbs or perhaps grow their own. Let’s face it, the average person isn’t going to have oatstraw-calendula tea lying […]
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PublishedAugust 24, 2011
Soup to Nuts: Tequila is finallya hot shot in Maine
For a lot of people, sitting in front of a line of three shots of tequila might conjure some flashbacks involving a pinch of salt, a lemon wedge and a pounding headache. But the shots that come in a flight of tequila at Zapoteca, a new Mexican restaurant and tequileria in Portland, are meant to be sipped and savored like a fine single malt Scotch, not downed in one gulp by a drunken college student.
Sergio Ramos, managing partner and resident tequila expert at the restaurant, stops customers in their tracks before they shoot back their tequila and explains to them how they should be drinking it.
“I think the tequila industry is doing a really good job of focusing on quality versus quantity,” Ramos said, “and they’re putting a really good product out there now.”
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PublishedAugust 24, 2011
Food Dining Dispatches, Aug. 24, 2011
DAMARISCOTTA Documentary series to appear at market, co-op Perennial Plate, an online weekly documentary series, will make a stop at the Rising Tide Community Market and the Pemaquid Fishermen’s Co-op on Sept. 3. Rising Tide, 323 Main St., is a sponsor of the 2011 Perennial Plate “Real Food Road Trip,” in which chef/activist Daniel Klein […]
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PublishedAugust 24, 2011
Tequila: Who is serving what in Maine
ZAPOTECA IN PORTLAND serves almost 90 kinds of tequila. Some of the tequilerias in Boston sell more than 100 varieties (and one claims to sell 300), but Sergio Ramos, managing partner at Zapoteca, said the restaurant deliberately limits its stock because he doesn’t want to offer lower-quality brands. ZAPOTECA HAS BROUGHT in four or five […]
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PublishedAugust 17, 2011
Cookbook Corner: ‘Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One’
Single-person households are the fastest-growing census category in the United States, even though clueless politicians and cookbook publishers continue to ignore us. But not Joe Yonan, the food editor for the Washington Post who writes an award-winning food column called “Cooking for One.” In his new book “Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One” […]
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PublishedAugust 17, 2011
Food & Dining Dispatches, Aug. 17, 2011
BRYANT POND Cooperative Extension chosen for food program The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is one of 10 national organizations selected to participate in a new Food Corps program designed to improve access to healthy, affordable food and train young people for careers in food and agriculture. FoodCorps is a national AmeriCorps school garden and […]
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PublishedAugust 17, 2011
Soup to Nuts: YOU be the judgefor ‘Top of the Crop’ contest
If you like food shows on television, odds are you’ve watched “Top Chef,” “Iron Chef” or “Master Chef” and wondered what it would be like to be one of the people tasting the dishes that the contestants create under the watchful eyes of judges like Tom Colicchio and Gordon Ramsay.
Well, here’s your chance . . .
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PublishedAugust 14, 2011
Postal workers won’t go quietly
Unions react furiously to a proposal to lay off 120,000 employees by breaking labor contracts.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2011
Feature Obituary: Rocco DiSanto, 52, consummate fixer of things; movie buff
Rocco DiSanto was born on Christmas Day in 1958. His mother went into labor while the Christmas lasagna was still in the oven. In later years he would say he always felt cheated on Christmas until the end of the day, when his mother brought him out a special birthday cake and a present wrapped […]
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PublishedAugust 11, 2011
Eenie, meenie, miney, MMM
Help choose the winner from a tasty array of cocktail contenders at Friday’s DivaTini2 Gala.
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