Yes, it is an easy one to solve, but the barrage that goes with being housebound is an issue we didn’t see coming.
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, Recipes
A breezy barley risotto gets a boost from goat cheese and cider
Once the barley is cooked, dinner is about 10 minutes away.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
A daughter goes in search of her late mother’s true identity
In Ilana Masad’s ‘All My Mother’s Lovers,’ protagonist Maggie Krause is in for a big, unsettling surprise.
Posted inFood, Recipes
Homefront: Moroccan chicken offers housebound diners a little taste of Africa
Trips to Morocco may be off the table for now, but we can still cook, eat and dream.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside Table
‘The Pioneers: The Heroic Story Of The Settlers Who Brought The American Ideal West,’ by David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, 352 pages. $30.
Posted inFood, Recipes
Shrimp burgers are easy to prepare, full of flavor
Thank the kimchi, ginger and scallion, and the bag of shrimp in the freezer.
Posted inMaine, Outdoors
BikeMaine cancels its annual cycle around the state
The organization said it was impossible to host the event safely in the middle of a pandemic.
Posted inFood, Restaurant reviews
Dine In Maine: What does a prestigious award nomination mean when your doors are closed?
It’s complicated.
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Local food has filled gaps in supply chains disrupted by the pandemic
Experts urge customers not to abandon local producers in favor of cheap, supermarket food once the shutdown ends.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Flash Fiction Contest
The coronavirus is bad for our health and bad for the economy, but its side effect, quarantine, could be the perfect setting for crime fiction. The Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Two Minutes in Quarantine Flash Fiction contest opens Thursday. Maine mystery writer Julia Spencer-Fleming will write a “deadly” opening sentence as a starting point […]