The new award recognizes “Purpose, Passion, Planet, People, and Prosperity.”
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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What’s for dessert? Tomatoes. For real
Step outside your comfort zone and try a tomato in a dessert. It’s a fruit, after all.
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Onigiri may be a simple snack, but making it takes a little skill
I’ve loved onigiri, a Japanese snack made from rice and seaweed, for 4 decades. But when I tried to make them for the first time, it wasn’t pretty.
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How will Trump’s tax breaks on tips affect Maine workers?
Experts weigh in on how this provision of President Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ will work.
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With time and a goat, you too can make cajeta, Mexican goat’s milk caramel
Food editor Peggy Grodinsky put cajeta on a list of things she wanted to cook in 2025 that she’d never made before. Ya know what else she’d never done before? Milked a goat.
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Meet the workers who make Portland’s treasured Fore Street restaurant tick
It’s usually the marquee chef who gets all the attention. We profiled some of the many, many other behind-the-scenes people who make your night out memorable.
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‘Among Friends’ captures the joy and danger of intimacy
Hal Ebbott’s novel unpacks the aftermath of an interaction that threatens a decades-long friendship between two men.
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Baking my own pop-tarts took me unexpected places
This childhood treat has grown up and gone to finishing school.
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‘Circular Motion,’ a debut both wildly imaginative and deeply emotional
Alex Foster’s first novel is about a futuristic high-speed travel system with troubling global consequences.
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Jewel Box bar in Portland faces uncertain future
The owner of the quirky, highly regarded cocktail bar says he is looking for investors or buyers.