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 18, 2011
Cookbook Corner: ‘The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden-Fresh Cookbook’
There are more than 325 recipes in “The Old Farmer’s Almanac Garden-Fresh Cookbook” (Yankee Publishing, $19.95), but the thing I liked best about this cookbook was all the practical information it contains, from a primer on canning to a chart outlining the best baking and cooking apples in North America. You’ll also learn which flowers […]
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PublishedMay 18, 2011
A cut above in the kitchen
When David Orbeton first started sharpening kitchen knives at the Brunswick Farmers Market this winter, he was just looking to build a little side business he could do in his spare time.
“People would bring one or two knives in, and I think they were testing me,” Orbeton said. “And then the following week they’d come in with (L.L.) Bean bags of knives, whole chef rolls. It was overwhelming. We actually had to turn people away.”
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PublishedMay 18, 2011
Scraps – Stuff we’ve heard about this ‘n’ that, May 18, 2011
• Taco Trio opened Monday at 119 Ocean St., South Portland. Hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily except Sunday; dinner is served 5 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. • Francesca Bowman, the former pastry chef at Back Bay Grill, has been appointed pastry chef of the Chebeague Island Inn and Diamond’s Edge […]
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PublishedMay 17, 2011
‘Survivor’: Show’s over, so Underwood tells all
An exhausted Ashley Underwood reflects on “Survivor” and maps out her future.
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PublishedMay 16, 2011
Proud, but no survivor
After 38 days playing the game of “Survivor: Redemption Island” in Nicaragua, Mainer Ashley Underwood fell one day short of getting a shot at the $1 million prize.
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PublishedMay 15, 2011
Author Q &A: Fancy that
Catherynne Valente wins a coveted science fiction-fantasy award for her young adult novel ‘The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland.’
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PublishedMay 15, 2011
Feature Obituary: Gardner Black Jr., 72, raised family with lots of love, music
GORHAM – Gardner E. Black Jr. grew up on a farm on a hill in Baldwin, where he and his 15 brothers and sisters entertained themselves by listening to Gene Autry on the radio and sliding down the hill on cardboard. As a boy, Black didn’t much care for school. His mother gave him a […]
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PublishedMay 15, 2011
Will Maine survivor outlast? Final answer coming tonight
Former Miss Maine Ashley Underwood has a chance at the $1 million prize.
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PublishedMay 14, 2011
Former Gov. John Baldacci honored at Truman Dinner
Speakers at the event draw sharp contrasts between Baldacci and his successor.
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PublishedMay 12, 2011
Underwood proving she’s a survivor
Maine’s hardy TV contestant puts herself into the season finale with a mix of guile and puzzle-solving skill.
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