Wholesalers are yet to receive new stocks since India, the world’s largest exporter of rice by far, said last month that it would ban some rice shipments.
Food & Dining
Food, dining and restaurant news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine’s peach crop this year is a total loss
Frigid temperatures and high winds in February doomed the fruit, which grows on trees that are sensitive to the cold.
Make halloumi the star of your next vegetarian burger
Use grilled slabs of the cheese in place of meat patties for these hearty burgers.
Vegan food businesses thrive in Kittery
Maine’s southernmost town has more plant-based businesses per resident than anywhere else in Maine.
Girl Dinner is everything, so Girl Dinner is nothing
The Girl Dinner trend started off with curated plates, but the wheels have come off.
Dining out with the kids? These aren’t your grandparents’ family restaurants.
Today’s family-oriented restaurants offer expertly crafted, carefully sourced food to discerning young families – a welcome change from the cookie-cutter chains and generic venues of the past.
Guide to growing shallots
Shallot be an unfamiliar allium it the garden this year? The Atwells say yes.
Hummus turns into a sauce for this fast one-pot pasta
Using hummus instead of chickpeas saves time, helps avoid waste, and puts a sometimes-pasty store-bought product to good use.
Home Plates: Eat, love, remember
A showstopper dessert evokes the beloved dessert maker.
Give your garden that certain je nais se quois with topiary
Snug Harbor Farm in Kennebunk sells topiary and teaches classes in how to train and prune plants into stylized shapes.