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

Maine Gardener: Let a hundred flowers bloom

by Tom Atwell May 24, 2020December 16, 2020

Planting vegetables lets you eat locally all summer long. But don’t forget the power, and beauty, of flowers.

Food, Recipes

Peas, asparagus and pucker spell spring

by Ellie Krieger Special to The Washington Post May 24, 2020May 20, 2020

Spring salad never tasted so good, thanks to a lively quick-pickle marinade.

Business, Food

Restaurants get creative to keep diners distant and maintain an ambience

by Emily Heil The Washington Post May 24, 2020May 20, 2020

From life-size cardboard cutouts of diners to canned customer chatter, restaurants across the world are figuring out the new normal restaurant experience.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

Race, class and an island in Maine all play a role in this sprawling family saga

by Frank O Smith May 24, 2020May 21, 2020

In ‘The Guest Book,’ the secrets and lies told by the Milton family over generations – to outsiders and to each other – begin to unravel.

Food, Recipes

Simmering chicken in chocolate milk sounds strange, but …

by Ann Maloney The Washington Post May 24, 2020May 20, 2020

Turns out, it’s delicious.

News, Source

A letter from the editor of Source

by Peggy Grodinsky May 24, 2020June 2, 2020

Things are slowly beginning to open up again, but doubtless you remember the cascading news in the early weeks of the pandemic, much of it summed up by a single word: “canceled.” Like every other organization in America – make that the world – we had to decide early on how to go forward with […]

Source

Meet the 2020 Russell Libby Agricultural Scholarship winners

by Peggy Grodinsky May 24, 2020May 21, 2020

A dairy farmer, a future flower farmer and an elementary school teacher who is engaging students in growing vegetables each received $1,500 to help them reach their (organic) goals.