Plus, Nosh changes hands, Slab’s frozen pizzas hit Hannaford shelves, volunteers at St. Peter’s pump out 7,000 cookies for its annual Italian Bazaar this weekend, and more.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining
Demand for grocery delivery cools as food costs rise
Grocery delivery saw tremendous growth during the first year of the pandemic.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
Vegan Kitchen: More plant-based foods partner with pop culture icons
Younger generations are more interested in vegan foods, and marketing professionals have taken notice.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine Authors
Book review: Honoring Maine’s organic farming past and embracing the future
A book about 50 years of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association offers many perspectives on the organization’s history – and its potential future.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: If it’s good enough for Kurt Vonnegut, it’s good enough for us
Book recommendations from readers.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Strategic weeding can help make it a manageable, even mediative, chore
Keeping weeds from going to seed and always having a trowel on hand are starters.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘The Midcoast,’ ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inFood & Dining, Kennebec Journal, Maine, News
Keeping it wild for Wild Blueberry Weekend in Maine
Dresden organic blueberry farm hosts visitors, bees.
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘Maiden Cove: A Novel’
One of the most carefully detailed fictionalizations we have of lobstering on the Maine coast, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inFood & Dining
This brewer is determined to make the world’s 2 best lagers in Biddeford
Brienne Allan, who accidentally started a movement after posting about sexism in the brewing industry, is starting fresh in Maine with her niche brewery, Sacred Profane, opening this month.