But the recipes don’t always work perfectly.
Peggy Grodinsky
Staff Writer
Peggy Grodinsky has been the food editor at the Portland Press Herald since 2014. Previously, she was executive editor of Cookโs Country, a now-defunct national magazine that was published by Americaโs 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 โBest of Food Writingโ (2017) and โCornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writingโ (2008).
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