The cake appears in her memoir, and at many a family occasion. But don’t ask Wood to bake it.
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).
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Creamy cognac mushroom sauce adds a little luxe to weeknight pasta bowls
The beauty of the sauce is that you can throw it together fairly quickly, and then mix and match to create a meal.
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Two easy tricks to making the best potato salad of your life
Surprise! It’s vegan.
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Tap lines: Enjoy its easy-going style, but whatever you do, don’t call it Kölsch
Many Portland-area breweries make a Kölsch-style ale, but no surprise the Germans have rules around the name.
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Discussions about farm succession plans can be complicated and fraught
A spoonful of sugar – in the form of chocolate-carrot snacking cake with vanilla yogurt glaze – and help from a regional nonprofit can ease the pain.
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How the long-dead public-television painter Bob Ross became a streaming phenomenon
and kicked up plenty of dirt in the process.
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Three-ingredient blueberry muffins from TikTok’s favorite grandma are a true delight
This easy muffin recipe comes from Barbara Costello, or Babs, as she’s known to her nearly half million TikTok followers.
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A mysterious and twisty street full of mysterious and twisty kids
Eccentricity has its charms for ‘The kids of Cattywampus Street.”
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Maine Gardener: Growing a gardener
With the help of MOFGA, a one-time black thumb has become a gardener.