Besides talks and demonstrations, including cooking tricks like mushroom reduction, there are more veg-friendly food offerings than at most fairs.
Food & Dining
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Bread and Butter: Joys and sorrows of the staff revolving door
Mike Wiley of Eventide Oyster, et. al, enjoys the privilege of working with dedicated, talented cooks, and gets used to losing them.
Trying to get to the essence of wine with a final, goodbye column
After writing about it for five years, Joe Appel reminds readers that wine is more than numbers and buying guides.
What saved the 1970s from a purely polyester legacy? Culinary breakthroughs
Though the era had dreadful clothes, we at least got some iconic restaurants and cookbooks out of it.
Grilled greens – and reds – gain silky texture and deeper flavor
And oh, what cherries can do for radicchio charred on the grill.
The Maine Ingredient: Do yourself a flavor and roast tomatoes
Now that native Maine tomatoes are here, bask in the glory.
For healthy, forgiving cooking, try a foil pack in the oven
Easy tacos with fresh or frozen fish and veggies are an excellent way to fix dinner in heavy-duty foil.
In ‘Cooking with Loula, Greek Recipes from My Family to Yours,’ the recipes satisfy
The prose, on the other hand, isn’t so satisfying.
Dine Out Maine: Is Five Fifty-Five having a temporary lapse or a bigger problem?
The service and food range from excellent to inconsistent.
Skin contact – in wine-making – turns an ordinary white into a tantalizing orange
Good skin-fermented wines boast extraordinarily distinctive flavors and an amber color.