The menu at the former Ameera Bread in Portland offers a tour of the Middle East and parts of the Mediterranean.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Kennebec Journal, Life & Culture, Local & State
Summer entertainment season returns to central Maine
With the loosening of public health restrictions across Maine, many communities plan to reignite traditional events while others say they will wait another year before welcoming people to their festivals.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
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.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Grow: onions
Onions are a wonderful plant to grow because, if things go well, you can eat them beginning in June and keep eating them all the way to March. People who start their seeds inside can start them as early as February. Now is the time to plant seedlings or onion sets – which are dried […]
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
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.
Posted inFood & Dining, Restaurant reviews
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.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
The mothers of the baking world, sourdough starters worth celebrating too
Meet the cultures, also known as ‘mothers,’ that are behind the local breads you love.
Posted inFood & Dining, Nation & World
Republicans are pulling out the steaks as they turn culture war into a food fight
Already, in farm states, meat eating has joined abortion, gun control and transgender rights as an issue that quickly sends partisans to their corners.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘simple cells’ and ‘Bashō in Acadia’
Former Puckerbrush Review contributor Mark Rutter’s words at play
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining
The Wrap: Openings, reopenings and renovations
Camden pop-up serves smoked eel dirty rice, Portland restaurants reopen, and a second helping of Maine recipes.