Unfussy, informal and comparatively carefree, they are becoming more popular, and it’s easy to understand why.
Food & Dining
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
It’s high time to modernize Chicken Marbella. Here’s how …
With its pungent mix of capers, olives and prunes, it was popular 25 years ago.
Price points: Hungry for lobster? Pick what you can afford in Maine
Here are some cheap, moderate and expensive ways to indulge in Maine’s iconic seafood.
Price points: Hungry for lobster? Pick what you can afford
Here are some cheap, moderate and expensive ways to indulge in Maine’s iconic seafood.
With vegetable scraps in your freezer, you have the making of liquid culinary gold
And with the resulting homemade vegetable broth, you have the foundation of a tasty, sustainable soup.
Summertime, and the eating is exciting
Here’s our annual look at the new restaurants due to open in southern Maine this summer.
The Wrap: A rum toast, food trucks for Fido, and pastries
Get ready to celebrate Portland’s liberation from Prohibition.
Chef Max Brody of Buxton Common on the other cook in the family
Back in the day, Lora Brody was a well-known cookbook writer and food personality. On Mother’s Day, her son tells us about her influence on him.
Gross Confection Bar in Portland’s Old Port defies expectations at every turn.
And for this dessert-only restaurant and bar, that’s excellent news.
Do you know who’s actually running the kitchen at your favorite restaurant?
It’s often the chef de cuisine, technically the second in command. We learn what it’s like to do a lot of the work with little of the (public) credit.