Doodling a new idea can help chefs envision a dish and explain its components and plating to their staff.
Meredith Goad
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 Food & Dining section and the Sunday Source 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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As interest in local apples soars, so does passion for good cider
Good cider is often compared to good wine. As Maine cider makers diversify their product and celebrate the flavor and variety of local apples, could our state become the Napa of hard cider?
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Restaurant dedicated to ‘plant-based power foods’ coming to Old Port
A Portland franchise of Copper Branch will be located in Canal Plaza.
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New barbecue restaurant coming to Portland’s West Bayside
The founders of Ri Ra’s Irish Pub are opening a new restaurant that will feature Eastern North Carolina-style barbecue.
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Mexican burrito restaurant to open in Old Port
Jefe Juan’s is a new project from the owner of Mash Tun, a restaurant and bar in the Old Port.
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The Wrap: New ramen shop coming to Portland, JP’s Bistro moving, and ‘Truck or Treat’
Would you be willing to lock away your cellphone while you eat? That’s what 1 chef wants you to do at the ramen shop he’s set to open on Washington Avenue.
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JP’s Bistro moving to Falmouth
The popular Portland neighborhood restaurant needs to expand and add more equipment, the chef/owner says.
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Cooking with cannabis has come a long way since your parents’ pot brownies
Once retail sales of marijuana begin in Maine, probably next year, home cooks will have a new ingredient to play with in the kitchen. Here’s advice from people who have been making edibles for years.
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As Maine’s climate warms, what’s on the menu likely will change
Chefs and scientists offer opinions on what we’ll be eating in 50 years.
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Dysart’s restaurant won’t be open 24/7 anymore
The popular pit stop off Interstate 95 in Hermon known for classic diner food will close for 5 hours overnight starting Oct. 1.