From France’s Languedoc region, aillade combines pistachios with wine, garlic, lemon and oil – and then enriches simply cooked white beans.
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).
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Did you thank a farmer today?
Nationwide, farms are struggling to find enough farmhands to raise and pick crops. In Maine, legislators are considering a law to raise their pay.
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Run & Eat: At Dina’s Cuisine, the name has changed but the food has not
The menu at the former Ameera Bread in Portland offers a tour of the Middle East and parts of the Mediterranean.
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Green Plate Special: New UMaine program helps towns to turn food waste into ‘black gold’
At home, you can put sour milk to use in pancakes.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Plant sales have returned
And more farmers are getting in on the action, offering their own seedling sales. But take care you don’t transfer any pests — plant or insect — with your new plants.
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Grow: onions
Onions are a wonderful plant to grow because, if things go well, you can eat them beginning in June and keep eating them all the way to March. People who start their seeds inside can start them as early as February. Now is the time to plant seedlings or onion sets – which are dried […]
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Dine Out Maine: A once and future critic
What was, what is, what will be. Critic Andrew Ross ponders how to return to restaurant criticism after the pandemic convulsion.
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In helping her daughter bloom, a mother changed perceptions of autism
Clara Park successfully challenged the idea that “refrigerator” moms caused the condition.
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Bedside Table: New friendships in the Scottish countryside, depicted with gentleness and warmth
“I just finished reading ‘Winter Solstice’ by the British romance novelist Rosamunde Pilcher. I am sad to have ended it, as I loved the characters, the wonderful Scottish setting, and the peacefully meandering storyline. The book features five marginally connected characters who find themselves sharing an estate in the north of Scotland as the Christmas […]
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In ‘Margreete’s Harbor,’ midcentury America’s social upheavals reach coastal Maine
Major social and political movements of the 1950s and ’60s steer Eleanor Morse’s minutely observed multigenerational family saga.