Food memories often anchor our picture of home. For cook Elaine Alley of Jonesport, and perhaps her son, that means brisket.
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Heaven scent: Holiday aromas emanate from Bates College’s tourtières
For decades, the dining commons kitchen at the Lewiston school has baked and sold fragrant meat pies for the school community, a tradition that links the college with city’s French Canadian heritage.
Climate change is already affecting your grocery bill
And it’s only getting worse. Expect to pay more for items from olive oil and coffee to wheat.
Home Plates: The Whatever School of Cooking
Cape Elizabeth resident Elaine Kahaner believes if you can read, you can cook.
Home Plates: A father’s ‘rite of succotash’
The son of a plain-eating Mainer doctors his dad’s simple recipe.
Ireland is testing an aquaculture system that grows 10 species at once
Will it work? And what could it mean for aquaculture efforts in Maine?
Winging it: Home cooks, pros share their out-of-the-box chicken wing recipes
And they tell us about the smart tricks that make the difference.
Home Plates: The tale of Snow the Goat and the Gingerbread Cookies
The day a hungry, adventurous goat helped himself to a plate of cookies.
Home Plates: Speedy fish stew among the many miracles of cooking
A Scarborough home cook has put his own twists on the Brazilian dish.
Here we come a-brambling
The Irish countryside is awash in blackberries, which Irish bakers have cleverly learned to pair with apples.