Peggy is the editor of the Food & Dining section and the books page at the Portland Press Herald. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a Boston-based national magazine published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle. Peggy has taught food writing to graduate students at New York University and Harvard Extension School. She worked for seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York and spent a year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” in 2017 and in “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” in 2008.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2023
Grief stole my joy for cooking. This soup helped me begin to heal
A brothy seafood soup with coconut milk and soba noodles helped me get back into my cooking habit after my mom died.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2023
Maine was once home to a pioneering U.S. tofu expert
In the late 1970s, Peter Golbitz began making tofu in his home kitchen in Bar Harbor. He went on to an illustrious career in the soybean field.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2023
Tok seel, a seared bean recipe, showcases the breadth of Mexican food
This healthful, nutritious recipe from the award-winning television host and cookbook author Pati Jinich packs loads of flavor in so few ingredients.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2023
How will climate change destroy us? ‘The Deluge’ imagines the scenarios
Stephen Markley’s new novel is part thriller, part horror, part all-too-real. It’s scary, instructive and also entertaining.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2023
Poems of female agency and survival anchor Cate Marvin’s fourth collection
Amid the harrowing themes, several poems center on loving mother-daughter bonds.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2023
Bedside table: Maybe the future is now?
Book recommendations from readers
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2023
An old, monied family unravels in Anne Whitney Pierce’s latest novel
Set during the turbulent 1960s and early ’70s, ‘Down to the River’ beautifully depicts the dwindling of a family fortune, brothers drinking to excess, and inseparable cousins leaving childhood behind.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2023
Bedside table: A happy discovery
Book recommendations from readers.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2023
The spirit of E.M. Forster hangs over Tom Crewe’s ‘The New Life’
Crewe’s lyrical, piercing debut lends a contemporary urgency to an exploration of same-sex intimacy and social opprobrium.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2023
4 strategies for eating more vegetables: Start by not overthinking it
There’s no need to overhaul your life to incorporate more vegetables into your diet; simply toss them into what you are already making.
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