It’s simple to do. If you have a box grater, a food processor or even just a knife, you’ve got the tool you need.
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).
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‘Locust Lane’ is as perceptive as it is compulsively readable
Stephen Amidon’s new novel tells the story of a young woman killed in an affluent suburb and the ugly truths that emerge about several elite denizens.
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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.
Posted inFood, Vegan Kitchen
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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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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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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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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Bedside table: Maybe the future is now?
Book recommendations from readers
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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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Bedside table: A happy discovery
Book recommendations from readers.