Experts urge customers not to abandon local producers in favor of cheap, supermarket food once the shutdown ends.
Recipes
Homefront: Blueberry Pie
A treasure trove of last year’s wild Maine blueberries is put to good use during the pandemic.
Green Plate Special: Put a little spring in your soup pot
Brighten up root vegetables to stretch soup into another season.
Look to a cookbook’s margins for secret recipes and the stories behind them
Scribbles in cookbooks can tell us a lot about the recipes – and about ourselves.
Gretchen’s table: An easy, fresh-tasting chicken dish for spring
Lemon chicken takes advantage of a citrus staple that is a cook’s secret weapon.
Green Plate Special: BEE happy, BEE useful, BEE kind and BEE careful
A new bee “mom” worries about, and delights in, her new responsibilities.
Green Plate Special: Separated by a pandemic, a mom and her son steal virtual time to cook
Plus a gnocchi recipe that will transport you to Italy.
Homefront: Home-baked bread is within your grasp
Editor’s Note: We have been asking readers (and the occasional Press Herald writer) to tell us what they are cooking, and why, during this time of self-isolation. This week, MEGAN GRAY, who cover courts for the Press Herald, tells us about attempting homemade bread. Bonus: she threw in a recipe for an Italian-esque white bean […]
Homefront: Kidney bean and mushroom bourguignon
A library book yields a delicious – and healthful – dinner.
Green Plate Special: Nervous about cooking with seaweed?
These products from Atlantic Sea Farms make it easy, and now is a good time to start.