Those eager to wean diners off their carnivorous ways face an uphill task in a city with the world’s highest per capita meat consumption.
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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Book review: ‘Wait: Poems from the Pandemic’ reveals our anxieties, longings and loneliness
In a ‘landscape transformed,’ Maine writers and artists describe pain, hope and ‘the boring parts of keeping us alive’ in these extraordinary times.
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Neal Stephenson’s ‘Termination Shock’ is another prescient page-turner
In his latest thriller, a geoengineering scheme to save the planet goes awry.
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Maine Gardener: To best support native wildlife, grow these five keystone tree species in your yard
Or just maybe you have a little leeway.
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An edible 2021 holiday gift guide: From Maine, to away
So how do we get on this guy’s Christmas list??!
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Green Plate Special: What to do with all the brown paper bags you accumulated at the height of the pandemic?
With stamps, ribbons and pine cones, you can repurpose them into beautiful holiday wrapping paper.
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Let Mexican molletes, the cheesy open-faced refried bean sandwiches, be your weeknight hero
For a thrifty, easy dinner, try molletes, a tried and true Mexican comfort food that will warm you on a chilly night.
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Romance cut short amid Cyprus chaos
Turkish writer Elif Shafak’s new novel weaves the tumultuous history of Cyprus into a story of young lovers split apart.
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Dairy’s unlikely new champion is a centuries-old Indian cheese
An under-the-radar cheese that’s been around since the 1500s is making inroads in the U.S. Americans may know paneer, a staple of Indian menus, as the central ingredient in saag paneer.
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Bedside table: A muse of another species
“I bought ‘Mozart’s Starling’ by Lyanda Lynn Haupt at Bull Moose in Waterville. It thrilled me to read about the ordinary starling being a pet for Mozart for three years in his Vienna apartment. The author experienced the same in her home in order to write her bird facts and music facts. Star was Mozart’s […]