Many people tell Meredith Goad that she has the best job in Maine, and most of the time she agrees. Maine has a crazy appetite for food stories, and it’s Meredith’s job to satisfy those cravings with juicy tales from chefs, food producers, local farms, and the state’s fast-growing restaurant scene. Her work appears in Wednesday’s Business section and the Sunday Food & Dining section, and occasionally, but not as often as she’d like, on the front page. A native of Memphis, Tenn., Meredith shamelessly flaunts her knowledge of good barbecue in front of her Yankee friends. She earned a bachelor of science degree in wildlife biology from Colorado State University, then studied science writing at the University of Missouri, where she received a master’s degree in journalism. She spent the first 20 years of her career covering science and environmental news, then switched to features in 2004, just as Portland’s food scene was taking off. Her own most memorable meal? Back in the 1980s, on assignment in Finland, she shared a dinner of reindeer and Russian vodka with Maryland’s governor and a bunch of hungry scientists. Meredith lives in Portland, but spends much of her time off back in Tennessee - either visiting family, or in online archives, researching her family’s history.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2011
Cookbook Corner: ‘The Cooking Light Gluten-Free Cookbook’
If you are one of the millions of Americans who have to stick to a gluten-free diet, there’s never been a better time for finding delicious gluten-free alternatives. There are more gluten-free cookbooks available than ever before. The latest, “The Cooking Light Gluten-Free Cookbook” (Oxmoor House, $21.95), contains more than 150 recipes, including those comfort […]
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PublishedAugust 10, 2011
Soup to Nuts:Farm to table, the Miyake way
FREEPORT — A dozen happy pigs are rooting around in their pen at the Miyake Farm.
One of them trots over to the electric fence, curious about the clicking sound coming from a camera. Another kicks up his heels cartoonishly as he plays around with his siblings. A third has a silver fish tail sticking out of his mouth. Wait. A fish tail? . . .
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PublishedAugust 10, 2011
Food & Dining Dispatches, Aug. 10, 2011
CAMDEN Tuesday Talk at Merryspring to feature natural herb teas Sarah Lambson will give a talk on natural herb teas at noon Tuesday at the Merryspring Nature Center. It’s part of the nonprofit center’s Tuesday Talk series, and is free for Merryspring members and children. There is a $5 charge for nonmembers. Merryspring is located […]
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PublishedAugust 7, 2011
Author Q&A: Wrestling with what’s right
Rushworth Kidder’s new book offers insights on how we teach – and don’t teach – our children to think about ethics.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2011
Soup to Nuts: Planting seedsin Maine for African heritage
FALMOUTH — Boulis Kodi treads lightly through a thriving garden patch, showing off a summer’s worth of hard work by Nuba Mountain refugees from Sudan.
“This is the sweet corn, and this is the tomatoes over here,” said Kodi, who is the farm manager for the Center for African Heritage garden project at Tidewater Farm, just down the road from the University of Maine Regional Learning Center.
He points to some greens that look as if they could be thrown right into a salad.
“This one that you see here, it’s an African (herb) just like spinach, but we use it for the soup,” Kodi said. “The taste is very good, and it’s (high in iron.)”
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PublishedAugust 3, 2011
Cookbook Corner: ‘The Art of Breakfast’
Are you one of those people who just love breakfast? Or maybe you’ve got a lot of visitors from away you need to feed? In either case, make your life easier by picking up a copy of “The Art of Breakfast: How to Bring B&B Entertaining Home” by Dana Moos (Down East Books, $28.95). Moos, […]
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PublishedAugust 3, 2011
Scraps – Stuff we’ve heard about this ‘n’ that, Aug. 3, 2011
• Jessica James, a school counselor, has just opened a lobster cart on Commercial Street in Portland. She sells lobster rolls with a quarter pound of fresh lobster meat for $12. The rolls are served in a toasted roll with warm butter. James also sells hot dogs and drinks. • Colleen Kelley, owner of Silly’s […]
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PublishedAugust 3, 2011
Food & Dining Dispatches, Aug. 3, 2011
PORTLAND McLellan to represent Maine at national seafood cook-off Margaret McLellan, executive chef at Morrison’s Maine Course in Portland and a resident of Boothbay, will once again represent Maine at the Great American Seafood Cook-Off in New Orleans on Saturday. This is McLellan’s fourth time entering the contest. Last year, she and her chef son, […]
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PublishedAugust 1, 2011
Otto mashed potato pizza named 1 of 50 best in U.S.
The pizza will be featured in the Food Network Magazine’s September issue, which hits stands Aug. 9.
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PublishedJuly 27, 2011
Soup to Nuts: Sipping the blues
If you can’t get enough of blueberries, you’re in luck. Now you — and sometimes your dog — can quaff them in tea, beer, vodka or coffee.
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