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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PublishedSeptember 6, 2015
What’s That?
A fruit fly, make that flies – as where there is one, there are many.
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2015
Hard-to-find lingonberries find a place on one Down East farm
The berries with Scandinavian roots are making a go of it – accidentally – alongside wild blueberries.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2015
What’s that? A pollinator garden
As honeybees vanish, University of Maine researchers plant a bee buffet at an old town dump.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2015
Return to writing lands renowned author in New England
Sarah Leah Chase publishes her first new work in 20 years, ‘New England Open-House Cookbook.’
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PublishedJuly 22, 2015
Patti Hamilton makes really terrific cole slaw – for 900 hungry people
The food director for the Bicycle Coalition of Maine chops all that slaw by hand.
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PublishedJuly 16, 2015
Abigial Smith, community college student
When she was 5 years old, Abigial Smith asked her parents for the present of a pig, of the pet pot-bellied sort. They produced one for her, but things didn’t end well. The tiny pig sickened with tetanus, a common pig malady, and soon died. The heartbroken Smith, who was growing up in Durham, asked […]
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PublishedJuly 16, 2015
Abigail Karter, high school senior
Abigail Karter grew up on a small hobby farm in Winslow. At least so she says. It doesn’t sound all that hobbylike to us, frankly. The family has more than a dozen beef cattle. There are pigs and goats. They tap trees for maple syrup and “do blueberries,” more than 600 bushes, Karter says. There’s […]
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PublishedJuly 16, 2015
Late MOFGA leader’s passions shared by Maine scholarship winners
We’re pleased to introduce the three winners of the first-ever Russell Libby Agricultural Scholar Awards. As part of our first annual Source Awards last spring, Source partnered with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, MOFGA, to grant scholarships in honor of the late, much-loved Russell Libby. Until his untimely death from cancer, Libby served […]
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PublishedJuly 16, 2015
Michael Hayden, MOFGA journeyperson
Michael Hayden has a big heart. While operating a vegetable farm in Milbridge, Folklore Farm, he somehow finds time to tutor migrant workers in math. And to volunteer at a weekly community dinner. And to teach kids yoga, another volunteer gig. He works with Incredible Edible, a project in Milbridge that has placed gardens in […]
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PublishedJuly 5, 2015
Green Plate Special: Use stone fruit pits to give desserts a haunting almond flavor
The French call it noyaux. We call it delicious.
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