David Buchanan has been producing artisanal hard cider since 2017.
Peggy Grodinsky
Staff Writer
Peggy Grodinsky has been the food editor at the Portland Press Herald since 2014. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a now-defunct national magazine that was published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle, seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York, and a (magical) year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” (2017) and “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” (2008).
Beat the Maine heat with cold soups
These three recipes from Mainers can get you started.
Cartoonist Roz Chast’s donated prints raise money for Portland food nonprofit
Food for All Services will use the donation to deliver food to Maine’s immigrant and low-income communities.
Freeport writer compiles 25 botanical projects you can do, too
In a new book, Kerry Michaels makes art from her garden.
Taj Indian Cuisine recognized for giving
The Maine Public Health Association is to name the South Portland restaurant a Public Health Business Champion.
All-day restaurant and bar opens in Searsport
Scullery Made Deli serves breakfast and lunch sandwiches by day, then morphs into a bar with small plates in the evenings.
This 1,500-mile running of the bees brings 21 million workers to Maine’s blueberry barrens
After spending the winter in Florida, millions of bees from Maya’s Apiary join the snowbirds journeying to Maine, to pollinate the state’s wild blueberry crop.
What to eat when it’s too hot to use your oven or stove
A collection of some of our favorite recipes for hot days.
Fresh Approach market in Portland’s West End will close
Chet and Peggy Knights say they weren’t able to overcome the loss in business after their SNAP license was revoked.
In contentious times, Maine restaurants ponder how, and whether, to take a stand
Food businesses must weigh their responsibilities to staff, customers and themselves.