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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).
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Tackle invasive plants now, as they are easy to spot
The never-ending job: Tips on removing honeysuckle, multiflora (and sadly many more) from your garden.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Book review: Lucy Barton returns in Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel
In ‘Oh William!,’ Lucy and her ex-husband travel to Maine together and uncover a family secret that changes everything.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: Bedtime reading that couldn’t be more apt
“If you ever needed convincing that you should get your eight hours of sleep, this is the book! ‘Why We Sleep,’ by Matthew Walker, is both thoughtful and witty, and filled with very interesting scientific evidence to encourage us to make getting our sleep a major Public Health movement.” — MISCHA SCHULER, Portland Mainers, please email […]
Posted inFood, Recipes
Quince evokes mystery and magic as heat turns the fruit from woody to luscious
While poaching, the fragrant fruit turns a sunset palette of rose-orange shades.
Posted inFood, Recipes
Skillet lasagna with spinach and zucchini delivers a rich, cheesy supper in 40 minutes
You whip up this lasagna on the stovetop in much less time than it takes to make a traditional version.
Posted inFood, Recipes
This white chili with butternut squash brings comfort and balance
Here’s comfort food that you can feel good about.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Can you skip the raking this year? Should you?
Whatever you do, please skip that noisy, noxious, polluting leaf blower.
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Upcycle Halloween candy into truffles, pudding and cake
Employ these baking tricks to turn unpopular Halloween leavings into real treats: Butterfinger Truffles, Whopper Bread Pudding and Almond Joy Bundt Cake.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: Fact and fiction, present times and past blend in this New England mystery
“‘Point of Graves’ is a great work of fiction. Facts are bent, and the outcomes will grip readers and draw them in. Mark Twain knew that playing fast and loose with facts makes for great storytelling: ‘Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please,’ he famously said. Writer J. Dennis Robinson’s […]
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