Broken Arrow, Maine Street Steak & Oyster and Old Port Sea Grill take on a labor shortage and COVID surges during what’s always the slowest season with nothing to lean on but their will to survive.
Peggy Grodinsky
Staff Writer
Peggy Grodinsky has been the food editor at the Portland Press Herald since 2014. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a now-defunct national magazine that was published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle, seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York, and a (magical) year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” (2017) and “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” (2008).
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Dine Out Maine: Can you separate the recipe from the recipe creator?
The Good, the Bad and the Umami.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Douglas Tallamy would like you to help build a Homegrown National Park
Use your backyard to plant species that will help slow Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Don’t call it mud season. March in Maine is spinach season
Even if you buy a very large bag, you won’t run out of delicious ways to use it.
Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
Vegan Kitchen: Making maple syrup the old-fashioned way in Naples
At Little Farm, Joe and Nancy Foran eschew defoamers and fancy equipment to produce intensely flavored syrup that communicates their particular patch of trees, sun, earth and water.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: This year’s Maine Garden + Marketplace a scaled-back version of the usual show
Blame lingering impacts of the pandemic, and don’t look for display gardens. With luck, next year…
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Dine Out Maine: Best food and drink this month
From non-alcoholic aperitifs to bagel sandwiches, our restaurant critic is back with another installment.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: A tad early, the gardening season gets off to a gentle start
Plant vegetable or flower seeds, prepare your tools, grow lettuce.
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Green Plate Special: Coffee and maple live together in perfect harmony
Add maple to your morning coffee or flavor cookies with the delectable combination.
Posted inLocal & State, News
The pandemic effect: Personal stories of change
So much has changed during the two years since the COVID-19 pandemic officially reached Maine on March 12, 2020. And many of those changes will last far after the pandemic ends. Some are permanent. More than 2,100 Maine families and communities have lost loved ones. Businesses have closed. Careers have ended. Some who survived the […]