Massachusetts’ Tower Hill Botanic Gardens gets some restoration help from Fedco Trees and inimitable apple man John Bunker.
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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A hotel for ambitious women and their New York dreams
Immortalized by Sylvia Plath, the Barbizon offered liberation, writes Paulina Bren.
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Portland’s hard-won identity as a food city is here to stay
An abundance of local food, eager diners and ambitious chefs built the city’s restaurant scene, and they’re not going anywhere.
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Portland restaurants struggled with hiring. COVID made it worse.
After a year of double-digit declines in business that saw some restaurant workers leave for good, owners are having trouble finding summer staff, particularly for ‘back of the house’ jobs like sous chef and dishwasher.
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On Middle Street, a culinary hub embodies an industry under siege
A microcosm of the Portland food scene, the block of restaurants made bold decisions and banded together to stay in business.
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Fluffy carbonara frittata, a riff on the classic pasta
Eggs, cream and bacon – can you really go wrong?
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Who is the greatest fictional detective? A new book reminds us why it’s Poirot
Mark Aldridge’s ‘Agatha Christie’s Poirot’ offers clues – and evidence – to prove the case.
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Bedside Table: Read and relax. This book offers a fascinating escape
“My perfect pandemic book is ‘Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind,’ by Kermit Pattison. It is popular science/natural history at its finest. Cantankerous and feuding paleoanthropologists work in east Africa with the most fragile and hard-to-find evidence imaginable: ancient fossils that contain clues to human evolution. Pattinson is […]
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I made Molly Yeh’s popcorn salad, and it’s easier to swallow than all the Internet vitriol
A video from Food Network’s Molly Yeh for popcorn salad elicits immense internet criticism that it didn’t really deserve.
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Making plans for the 2021 gardening season
By now, columnist Tom Atwell can grow vegetables in his sleep. This year, he’ll focus on ornamentals.