The owner of Bixby & Co. in Rockland wins $10,000 and a trip to New York to meet the designer.
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.
Posted inFood
Life on the backburner: Chefs who quit Maine’s simmering food scene
The stress of running a restaurant can ruin marriages, they say, and it’s worth changing careers to follow their passions.
advertisement
Posted inFood
Maine chef wins the opportunity to create a three-part Web series
Erin French, owner of The Lost Kitchen, took second place in the Create Cooking Challenge.
Posted inFood, Local & State, News
No Maine winners in the James Beard Awards
Three Maine chefs and one brewmaster were nominated, but none earns the coveted medal.
Posted inFood
Maine native Matthew Kenney plans new restaurant in Belfast
Arata will open Memorial Day weekend and serve plant-based cuisine.
Posted inFood
Maine native Matthew Kenney plans new restaurant in Belfast
Arata will open Memorial Day weekend and serve plant-based cuisine.
Posted inSource
Going green in the golden years
Environmentally friendly retirement communities are sprouting up around the country as retiring baby boomers get serious about sustainability.
Posted inHomegrown, Source
These lobster buoys feed birds rather than marking traps
Suet feeders from the Lobster Buoy Birdhouse Co. attract woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches and other hungry birds – and they’re environmentally friendly.
Posted inFood, Local & State
Maine Fare food festival in Belfast canceled for 2016
Organizers say they can no longer handle the logistics of putting on such a large event, but they hope to bring it back in some form.
Posted inBusiness, Food, Local & State, News
New pub-style restaurant coming to Whole Foods’ Portland store
Beginning next week, customers will be able to enjoy a beer or a glass of wine and a sit-down dinner at the Somerset Tap House before or after they do their shopping.