After the panic, home cooks face down their pandemic stashes
Remember when everyone was hoarding canned goods, pasta, dried beans, and all kinds of grains? What happened to all that stuff?
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Lowering the bar: Baking through the pandemic with an 11-pound chocolate bar
The ritual provides several comforts during a difficult year.
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Maine Gardener: An argument for annuals
Yes, you need to buy them and plant them every year. But there are a few good reasons to do so.
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Food
Run & Eat: If you spot Lucky Lou’s at lunchtime, lucky you
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Food
Tap Lines: Wood-aged ‘clean’ beer styles put new spin on old practice
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Food
This diner-style ‘patty’ melt is full of caramelized onions, mushrooms and cheese
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Food
This ricotta gnocchi recipe with leeks and peas will cure your fear of making pasta
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Food
Vegan food on their dinner plates, vegan philosophy on their license plates
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Maine Gardener
Grow: Beans
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Food
A garlicky pistachio puree turns beans into an irresistible topping for toast, salads and more
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Green Plate Special
Green Plate Special: Did you thank a farmer today?
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Local & State
Taco Trio moving to Big Babe’s Tavern space
Dine Out Maine: Best of 2020
Even in the midst of a pandemic that has felled many restaurants, points of light remain.
Dine Out Maine: A once and future critic
What was, what is, what will be. Critic Andrew Ross ponders how to return to restaurant criticism after the pandemic convulsion.
Green Plate Special: New UMaine program helps towns to turn food waste into ‘black gold’
At home, you can put sour milk to use in pancakes.
Maine Gardener: Plant sales have returned
And more farmers are getting in on the action, offering their own seedling sales. But take care you don't transfer any pests — plant or insect — with your new plants.
The controversial Seaspiracy documentary may make you rethink your dinner choices
The film, which charges the global fishing industry is "at war with the oceans," has angered the fishing community.
Run & Eat: At Dina’s Cuisine, the name has changed but the food has not
The menu at the former Ameera Bread in Portland offers a tour of the Middle East and parts of the Mediterranean.
