We asked Portlanders what food, drink and dining habits would make them say no to a second date.
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).
University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Falmouth: Students get pragmatic lessons
A Cumberland County class on savory pies has many takeaways for the home kitchen.
A tiny but delicious crop of Asian pears is growing in Maine
Will the fruit take root here? A few farms are experimenting to see what varieties might thrive.
Hard-to-find lingonberries find a place on one Down East farm
The berries with Scandinavian roots are making a go of it – accidentally – alongside wild blueberries.
Return to writing lands renowned author in New England
Sarah Leah Chase publishes her first new work in 20 years, ‘New England Open-House Cookbook.’
Patti Hamilton makes really terrific cole slaw – for 900 hungry people
The food director for the Bicycle Coalition of Maine chops all that slaw by hand.
Green Plate Special: Use stone fruit pits to give desserts a haunting almond flavor
The French call it noyaux. We call it delicious.
Four foods that make one Mainer proud to call herself an American
What foods do the same for you?
Packed with clippings, recipe book stirs sweet memories of Dad
He didn’t cook, but he sure liked to think about food.
Portland exhibit re-examines the pickle fork
A 19th-century implement gets a fresh look.