What is the most energy-efficient pot for cooking dried beans?

The electric pressure cooker – maybe.

Shrinking the waste of food packaging begins with baby steps

Plus a recipe for Homemade Cinnamon and Brown Sugar Instant Oatmeal.

Tagine becomes essential cookware for kitchen – or desert isle

A Brunswick cook discovers she can use the North African import to make almost anything.

Sharpen knives to maximize flavor and cut waste

Culinary school grads know the benefits of good knife care.

Follow in footsteps of smart chefs who know whey

Use the byproduct of making cheese in drinks, bread, cakes or poached vegetables.

Give your daily bread delicious uses when it grows old

Easy-to-make bread crumbs add homemade goodness to comfort food and desserts.

Green Plate Special: If life gives you a lemon craving, make it count

Tangy ways to use the juice, pith and peel give those shipping miles more purpose.

Cabbage doesn’t have to be boring

In this recipe for kimchi ramen, it's anything but.

Fish and chips – made with Maine brews – hit the road

A classic combo gets the local treatment by food truck entrepreneurs.

Grilled Maine goat and lamb burgers