The lines at the popular South Portland bakery will grow shorter this summer when Scratch moves its bread- and bagel-baking operation into a former gas station at Sawyer Street and Broadway.
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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Separated from her husband by war, Congolese woman makes his favorite dish as a reminder
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Temperatures rise at Portland restaurant over minimum wage debate
While some employees at Five Fifty-Five appear to be at odds with the owners over the issue, workers at other restaurants say there is either lively discussion or it’s business as usual.
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Sugar houses adjust to Maine Maple Sunday falling on Easter
Some will open both Saturday and Sunday, some Saturday only, while others picked a different weekend to avoid conflicting with the holiday.
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New, ‘low-profit’ cafe and retail store opens at Brunswick Landing
The New Beet Market serves locally grown foods from its nonprofit partners and local farmers.
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Scales tests the waters before opening in Portland
The much-anticipated dining destination of chef Sam Hayward and restaurateur Dana Street is now serving up re-envisioned New England seafood.
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Some Portland chefs take the leap to new cuisines
Here’s how, and why, local chefs have left their comfort zones.
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Five new charges filed against singer-songwriter Don McLean
The charges stem from the domestic violence investigation that started when he was arrested at his home in Camden on Jan. 18.
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Doctor prescribes cheese with a little something extra
New Hampshire-based Dr. Mark Windt and partner Roxanne Barnes team up with a Vermont creamery to create a pasteurized cheese containing probiotics, now available at Whole Foods in Portland.
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Consumers love probiotics, but do they work?
A doctor says there isn’t enough data to support prescriptions but people flock to products containing probiotics.