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Food & Dining
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Eight new vegan cookbooks, well-suited for summer
Our columnist takes a look at this year’s batch.
Serve grilled BLT salad with buttermilk dressing
The taste evokes the pleasing smokiness you know and love.
Pastis shrimp borrows flavors from southern France
Sop up the sauce with – what else? – a baguette.
Apple Upside-Down Cornbread a sweet idea
The apple layer keeps the cornbread moist.
Dine Out Maine: Savor homestyle Somali cuisine at Mini Mogadishu
The setting at the Portland restaurant is festive and the food modest, yet special.
Making pasta’s the new focus for Roxanne Quimby
After Burt’s Bees, after the national monument, she could take it easy. But this famous entrepreneur can’t stop doing.
From Israel, an ‘ultra-kosher’ single malt whiskey
The Milk & Honey distillers say the country’s warm climate allows for a speedier aging process.
Trattoria Fanny in Portland closes, a victim of timing and location
David Levi, who also owns Vinland, says the restaurant was too early on the Bramhall scene.
Oprah-branded soups, side dishes to hit supermarkets
The new brand is called O, That’s Good!