Sustainable recipes like this Muhammara and Chickpea Stew also suit busy lives.
Peggy Grodinsky
Staff Writer
Peggy is the editor of the Food & Dining section and the books page at the Portland Press Herald. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a Boston-based national magazine published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle. Peggy has taught food writing to graduate students at New York University and Harvard Extension School. She worked for seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York and spent a year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” in 2017 and in “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” in 2008.
Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
Surveys, studies and reports this year point to an increasingly vegan world
And some newly uncovered information even shows that humans historically ate less meat than we thought.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Chores are barely done, but never too early to shop for next year’s gardening season
Some great local catalogs encourage buying and daydreaming on cold winter days.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
‘Twas a greener night before Christmas
Out with the sugar plums, in with the recycled wrapping paper. (But we do like that renewable-energy-powered reindeer vehicle.)
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Decorate cookies for a sweet, festive Hanukkah
Camden resident and expert baker Elinor Klivens offers a recipe.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Efforts to restore American chestnut tree raise burning question for food lovers
When do we get to eat the chestnuts? Experts say they are tastier than the Asian and European nuts we import.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
New biography of Jefferson makes this case: To know the man, read his writing
‘His Masterly Pen’ tackles head-on one of the former president’s central contradictions: How could he declare that all men are created equal and that slavery is immoral and still be a slaveholder?
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
A petite kabocha squash developed in Maine wins an award
Johnny’s Selected Seeds’ Sweet Jade is an All-America Selection. It’s the first such award for scientist Lindsay Wyatt, who bred the plant.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Mustard is easy to make and customize to different tastes
Personalized mustard makes a great gift, and a grainy version goes great in a creamy sauce for chicken thighs.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Lynn Steger Strong turns her lens to sibling tensions amid grief in new novel
‘Flight’ is set at a family’s first Christmas gathering since their mother died. Resentment and love are intertwined.