The flowers are striking, the plants can live for 100 years, and with four types, it’s easy to find one that suits your gardening needs.
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, Source
How to turn a weed into a winner
The essentials of nettles are simple: Wear gloves to protect yourself from the sting, and blanch.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Concert review: Bach’s breadth, secular and sacred, on display at Maine festival’s opening program
A top-flight ensemble of Baroque music specialists demonstrates their ample strengths.
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Life & Culture
Learning to love lovage
Though it was a cure-all in ancient Rome and Greece, Americans today rarely use lovage. It is strong but tasty and has many excellent uses in the kitchen.
Posted inFood, Life & Culture, Recipes
Rhubarb lovers unite! (And everyone else can eat dirt)
As a wise food writer once said, ‘In my world there is no such thing as too much rhubarb!’
Posted inFood, Restaurant reviews
Dine Out Maine: A celebrated Manhattan chef comes home, which is excellent news for diners
Nina June’s Sara Jenkins has deep ties to Italy and Maine and both are deliciously evident on the plate at her Rockport restaurant.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
In ‘Now You See the Sky,’ Catharine H. Murray writes of loss and grief between 2 very different worlds
As a young woman working in a refugee camp in Thailand, she meets, and marries, a Thai man. But when their son gets sick, everything changes.
Posted inCookbook Reviews, Food, Recipes
‘Farmacy Kitchen Cookbook’ is on a mission to get you to think about what you eat
The vegan cookbook offers recipes, yes, but also a philosophy of healing, balance, good intentions and kindness to animals.
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Now that you like rhubarb, right? Get in the kitchen and bake
The combination of rhubarb and roses is unusual and wonderful. Tosca Cake is a Swedish classic.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
A pepper plan for a Maine garden
In truth, bell peppers would like a longer, warmer growing season than Maine offers. (And so might we humans.)