I won’t be planting much in our gardens over the next few weeks, but I will be adding something from now until the end of the year. What I’ll be adding is leaf mold, a cross between compost and mulch. When I first started gardening almost half a century ago, I used a rototiller at […]
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, Maine Gardener
A midseason update from the garden
Everything is early. The flowers have been profuse. Irrigation has been crucial.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Restaurant reviews
Dine Out Maine: The Best Policy
When the paper resumes publishing restaurant reviews, honest feedback – both positive and negative – is the way to go.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Children’s book celebrates the color brown in all its glory
‘Magnificent Homespun Brown’ is as joyful as the confident little girls it depicts.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
The list of invasive plants banned for import and sale in Maine soon to grow
A committee has been meeting to decide which plants should be on the list, the state’s second.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
What’s for dinner? Toast. Think it sounds unsophisticated? Then call it tartine
It’s fast, it’s creative, and you can use up all your leftovers.
Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
Vegan ice cream is easy to find in Maine
And with lots of people paying attention to quality, the ice cream is as good as that made with dairy.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Can you eat Maine bluefin tuna with a clear conscience?
It’s complicated, but here’s a hint to tuna lovers: the news is good.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Do the patriotic thing: Grow a garden
For a whole host of reasons, gardening is good citizenship.
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Grow: Perennial seeds
Except for succession planting – where you plant fast-developing vegetables such as lettuce and beets throughout the season so you can harvest throughout the season – there is now little to be started in the vegetable garden. But that doesn’t mean you have to stop planting. It is a good time to plant pollinator-friendly perennials […]