Joseph Schafer will take the reins from Justin Walker, who recently purchased the Cape Neddick Inn.
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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Purple House, popular Montreal bagel baker, taking the summer off
The owner says the North Yarmouth business will reopen in October.
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Cremation jewelry – holding remains of people, pets – becoming more popular
Limington jewelry designer Amy Richardson fuses ashes into glass jewelry to help ease her customers’ grief.
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Starving for Father’s Day food ideas? We’ve got some
Here’s our list of things you can do with your foodie dad.
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Schooner Hesper resurrected as a public drinking fountain
Local artist Nick Dalton just completed a public sculpture honoring the four-masted schooner that once lay abandoned in the Sheepscot River.
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Oatmeal crumb tarts from Oats Any Time are bursting with fruit and as satisfying as oatmeal
And they have a great backstory, too.
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Specialty doughnut shop opens in Monument Square with 400 giveaways
HiFi Donuts sells three styles of dunkers, artisan coffee roasted by entrepreneur George Howell, and other drinks.
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When can you start picking strawberries?
The rain has probably not harmed the crop, farmers say, but cooler spring weather means the berries may ripen a little later than usual.
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Maine food festivals serve up more than lobster this summer
Of course, there are options for purists such as the Down East Lobster Roll Festival – but others offer up less traditional fare.
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Taking wood from derelict schooners becomes the ultimate recycling project
What happened to the wood scavenged from the Hesper and Luther Little nearly 2 decades ago?