With its pungent mix of capers, olives and prunes, it was popular 25 years ago.
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 inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
Looking for a new Maine read? Consider these 3
Portland bookseller Josh Christie summarizes two novels and a memoir due out this summer.
advertisement
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
May is the perfect month to explore Flying Pond in Vienna
It’s a lovely spot, and most of the summer cottages haven’t yet opened for the season, so you’ll have it to yourself – except for the loons and the kingfishers.
Posted inFood, Recipes
For California fire survivors, a stranger’s handwritten recipe scrapbook offers a chance to rebuild
It’s filled with re-created instructions for well-loved dishes that had been passed down through generations.
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Life & Culture
Green Plate Special: With vegetable scraps in your freezer, you have liquid gold
And with the resulting homemade vegetable broth, you have the foundation of a tasty, sustainable soup.
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Hunting: Getting a turkey in heavily hunted areas often requires a different approach
When other ideas fail, there is always Plan C.
Posted inFood, Recipes
This one-bowl tea bread from Mary Berry is tender, fragrant and simple to assemble
Customize it to suit yourself.
Posted inFood, Source
Drink craft beer, eat ancient grains and other ways to respond to the planet’s loss of biodiversity
Address climate change, pollution, land management and more one forkful at a time.
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
Explore nature and history along the flat, paved Mountain Division Trail
Running through Standish, Gorham and Windham, it is one of two existing sections on the proposed Portland-to-Fryeburg trail.
Posted inFood
Chef Max Brody of Buxton Common on the other cook in the family
Back in the day, Lora Brody was a well-known cookbook writer and food personality. On Mother’s Day, her son tells us about her influence on him.