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Food & Dining
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
More Maine restaurants are sharing their kitchen spaces with bakeries, food trucks
Eateries like Bernie’s Foreside and Esidore’s in Falmouth have found the arrangements have both benefits and challenges.
Who wrote ‘The Turmeric Cookbook’? It’s a mystery
But who cares? The book offers helpful tips, a nice balance of recipes, and one very delicious Carrot-Turmeric Soup.
The Maine Ingredient: If you pickle local produce, be ready for grateful puckering up
Our recipes for pickles and chutney update a beloved tradition.
Make fig brandy for gifts, and get brandied figs as a bonus
Figs are sweet enough on their own to stand up to a boozy bath.
Leeks are the star in this quick, simple chicken dinner
This meal involves just a few ingredients that work in concert to produce a lot of flavor.
Don’t be intimidated by tarte tatin
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the premade puff pastry.
Chopped salad might sound mundane, but let me convince you otherwise
This type of salad is too often overlooked.
Apple Culture: True beauty of Maine’s wild apples is in their ‘crazy flavors’
The state is full of unique fruit trees that often are free to pick from.
Bite: Good pho is hard to find
And Portland, Maine, is not the first place our columnist expected to find it.