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).

Food, Maine Gardener

Grow: Eggplant

by Tom Atwell June 6, 2021June 2, 2021

I never ate eggplant growing up. I think it was simply my family’s preferences. I have since grown it successfully, but not every year. Eggplants like warm weather. It takes soil temperatures close to 80 degrees for the seeds to germinate, which doesn’t happen much in Maine. So unless you started your seedlings on a […]

Food, Recipes

Pasta with artichokes, capers and toasted breadcrumbs makes for a quick, thrifty meal

by Aaron Hutcherson The Washington Post June 6, 2021May 28, 2021

Make it from items you probably have in your pantry.

Food, Green Plate Special, Recipes

The Halibut Project at Chaval restaurant brings mouth-to-tail-fin eating to diners

by Christine Burns Rudalevige June 6, 2021May 14, 2026

For the length of local halibut season, chef de cuisine Kirby Sholl is featuring halibut on the menu from head to rib to ‘wing.’

Food, Recipes

At 102, South Portland woman doesn’t hold back feelings about the food she loves, or doesn’t

by Peggy Grodinsky June 6, 2021June 14, 2021

Kareemi Atallah wanted again to eat the Middle Eastern food she grew up with. She sort of gets her wish.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment

by Ron Charles The Washington Post June 6, 2021June 1, 2021

The comedy that runs through Rivka Galchen’s “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch” is a magical brew of absurdity and brutality.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Bedside Table: How to get through tough times? This book, set in World War II, has some answers

June 6, 2021June 1, 2021

“I recently finished reading ‘Symphony for the City of the Dead’ by M.T. Anderson and winner of several awards. This book was chosen by my book club and was based on the true story of Soviet-Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who used his musical talents to bring hope to the people of his country during the […]