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Baking
What’s for dessert? Tomatoes. For real
Step outside your comfort zone and try a tomato in a dessert. It’s a fruit, after all.
Annual Maine bread festival in Skowhegan celebrates local grains, artisan bread and community
The Maine Artisan Bread Fair offers workshops, dozens of vendors and live music.
Baking my own pop-tarts took me unexpected places
This childhood treat has grown up and gone to finishing school.
Maine has a thriving industry of home bakers
The state has fewer restrictions than most others on selling foods made at home.
A cook and baker from Boothbay Harbor devises the perfect bagel for Maine
She adapted the classic flavors of New England anadama bread to a bagel, a humble bread that originated in Poland.
For 2025, stock your kitchen with 25 items from Maine’s incredible array of local foods
From maple syrup to mustard, farro to furikake, here’s a list of some of our columnist’s must-have Maine ingredients.
An old farmhouse on the Kennebec River, and the former owner’s date bars, get their due
When Hallie Flint Gilman signed on to restore a 19th-century farmhouse in Somerset County, little did she know the previous owner’s ‘legendary’ old-fashioned date bars would help to make it a home.
When her oven broke, she turned to the toaster oven
It turns out you don’t need a deluxe Wolf or Bertazzoni stove to make first-rate dinners and desserts.
Appetite for bagels and schmear is on the rise in Sebago-land
Colby grad ditches desk job to work with his hands, and the result is highly edible.