This year, vegan ‘meats’ are a big trend.
Food & Dining
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Ri Ra goes Whole Hog with plans for barbecue spot
The Irish pub and restaurant in Portland is getting in on the business, with plans to open a Congress Street restaurant in November.
Beloved blueberry cake shows why Marjorie Standish is Maine’s home cooking icon
The 1950s recipe for Melt-in-Your-Mouth Blueberry Cake still holds up today.
Pop-up Uncle Billy’s will become a neighborhood bar and grill
Get your pulled pork, but burgers and fried chicken too
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Members of Maine’s congressional delegation criticized President Trump on Monday after his much-anticipated summit with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during which Trump again downplayed Russia’s role in interfering with the 2016 election. Appearing side-by-side at a press conference following their closed two-hour meeting, Trump and Putin both cast doubt on what virtually all intelligence agencies […]
Food trucks serving state workers on Augusta east campus
The new food trucks are open to passersby, but their main target audience is the roughly 750-strong state workforce on the site.
Dine Out Maine: Overly complicated preparations mar some dishes at Walkers Maine
The components are all there. But sometimes there are just too many of them.
Ri Ra restaurant group to open barbecue restaurant in Portland
The restaurant will focus on North Carolina-style barbecue
Cousins Maine Lobster’s co-founder finally lands his own TV show
Sabin Lomac, who grew up in Scarborough, is the host of Cooking Channel’s ‘Seaside Snacks and Shacks,’ which makes its debut next week.
Hunter who died 5,300 years ago ate a well-balanced last meal
Oetzi the Iceman, discovered frozen in the Italian alps, had just eaten the fat and meat of an ibex, a deer and some whole wheat seeds before he died.