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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Things to Do
Tap Lines: Surprise, brown ales don’t have to be boring
Maine breweries are playing with the old style in new ways.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
In a new year, new beekeepers get new bees and vow to make some changes
Plus, they make the best of a bad situation by extracting honey. A lot of honey.
Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
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.
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining
This spring, many new food trucks are taking to the streets
From upscale grilled cheese to banh mi, from lobster rolls (both vegan and fish) to tacos, our guide to what’s on the menu and where you can find it.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Grow: potatoes
Potatoes are a a major industry in Aroostook County and a good vegetable to grow anywhere in Maine. I prefer growing unusual, specialty potatoes rather than the Kennebec and Katahdin varieties you can buy at any store. Varieties I’m growing this year include Charlotte, a French variety new to Wood Prairie Farm this year; two […]
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Saving a heritage orchard, one apple tree at a time
Massachusetts’ Tower Hill Botanic Gardens gets some restoration help from Fedco Trees and inimitable apple man John Bunker.
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining, Nation & World
Your fried chicken obsession is causing a nationwide poultry shortage
Chicken, the most popular meat in the United States, is finding a new level of demand after Popeyes introduced a sandwich in 2019 that went viral and sold out in weeks.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘things seemed to be breaking: visual poems’
A new book by former poet laureate Stuart Kestenbaum