As some farms lose the fight, others urge consumers to read labels and ensure the product is from operations that follow idyllic practices such as free-range grazing.
Food & Dining
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Westbrook’s Legends Rest Taproom now has brew with a view
A new Maine law allows restaurants to serve alcohol in unattached outdoor dining areas.
Rather than steaming it, a Portland restaurant returns ‘cotton candy’ lobster to the sea
Scales’ executive chef says, ‘It was just too interesting to cook it.’
Yes, you can fail a drug test by eating a poppy seed bagel
You can plead bagel but ‘the poppy seed defense’ doesn’t always work.
Tomato salad a fresh take on a Southern specialty
But rather than use green tomatoes, the recipe calls for ripe ones.
Grits make a tasty pillow for a pile of Cajun shrimp
The Southern side won’t disappoint.
Cake. Healthy. Two words you don’t normally see together
But that’s the subject of “Nourish Cakes: Baking with a Healthy Twist.”
The Wrap: Allagash introduces sour peach beer, making use of surplus
Also, a potato bar and a new pizzeria join the ranks of Portland restaurants.
Heavenly cookies await at St. Peter’s Italian Bazaar
For 93 years, church parishioners have been baking and selling the soft, anise-flavored treats.
Garlic-flavored mayonnaise: When did we all become aioli eaters?
A cursory online survey of Greater Portland restaurants finds it on nearly 20 menus.