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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PublishedFebruary 4, 2011
Food Network show looking for Portland chefs
“Chopped” gives professional chefs a mystery basket of ingredients from which they must cook something special for the judges.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2011
Soup to Nuts: Super (Bowl) eats
PORTLAND — Every year, as the Super Bowl draws near, football fans start trotting out game-day recipes that are sure to make their spreads the talk of the town.
Some Super Bowl party hosts like to impress their guests with fancy hors d’oeurves or buffet tables groaning with lots of choices. But sometimes the middle road is best. Why spend all your time in the kitchen when you could be enjoying the game with friends?
We asked two of Portland’s newest restaurants for their take on Super Bowl food, and both had great suggestions for keeping the menu uncomplicated but still delicious.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2011
Food & Dining Dispatches, Feb. 2, 2011
PORTLAND City No. 4 on ’10 Top Foodie Cities’ list Portland has once again garnered accolades for its robust food scene. CNBC.com and Sperlings Best Places recently released a list of the nation’s 10 Top Foodie Cities and pegs Portland at No. 4. To come up with the list, Sperlings used the metro-area population (513,373 […]
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PublishedJanuary 27, 2011
Portland Trails seeks recipes for gourmet trail grub
Just because you’re out hiking or cross-country skiing doesn’t mean you have to limit your eats to granola bars and gorp. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Portland Trails is launching a “Trail Gourmet” recipe contest, searching for the best on-the-go, meal-worthy snacks that can be carried in a backpack and eaten on a Portland trail. […]
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2011
Cookbook Corner: “Sweet Chic”
Rachel Schifter Thebault, author of “Sweet Chic: Stylish Treats to Dress Up Any Occasion” (Ballantine Books, $28), views devil’s food cake as the “little black dress” of desserts. Serve it as a casual treat, “dressed down” as Mini S’mores Cupcakes, or dressed up as Rich Chocolate Ganache cake. Thebault, confectioner to celebrities such as Cameron […]
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PublishedJanuary 26, 2011
Parting shots from Maine’s top bartenders
It’s a cocktail-hour conflict that may leave sippers shaken and stirred – two major bartender contests on the same day at the same time. What to do?
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2011
Author Q&A: The survivors’ stories
Ron Franscell’s new book answers the question ‘Whatever happened to …’ people who lived through some of the nation’s notorious mass murders.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2011
Soup to Nuts: Chicken soupand other cures for what ails
Have you been getting sick a lot this winter?
You’re not the only one.
I rarely get sick, and when I do it’s usually just a cold during winter. This year, I went through a string of three nasty colds that lasted from early November well into the New Year.
Occasionally I’d start feeling better, but it didn’t last long, thanks to crowded airplanes crawling with viruses at the holidays and the fact that newsrooms are, by their very nature, as germy as daycare centers.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2011
Cookbook Corner: “How to Squeeze a Lemon”
“How to Squeeze a Lemon: 1,023 Kitchen Tips, Food Fixes, and Handy Techniques” (Taunton Press, $19.95) isn’t exactly a cookbook, but it’s a good reference to have in the kitchen. It’s the sequel to the award-winning “How to Break an Egg.” Who doesn’t love learning tidbits like this one about preparing kale: The secret to […]
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2011
Scraps – Stuff we’ve heard about this ‘n’ that, Jan. 19, 2011
• The East Ender, a project of Mitch Gerow and Megan Schroeter (both formerly of Evangeline), is now open with a full menu at 47 Middle St., Portland. Hours are 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday. For more information, call 879-7669. • We dug up some fresh details about the new Portland […]
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