A crop of local (and a couple regional) cookbooks lets you explore ingredients in both new and traditional ways.
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Old Port restaurants remain closed in fire’s aftermath
City inspectors will visit Flatbread Co. and Ri Ra Irish Pub and Restaurant over the next 2 days to discuss reopening dates.
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Gelato Fiasco switches to paper packaging to reduce plastic waste
The Maine-based gelato maker says the switch to paper should keep 3 million plastic containers out of the waste stream annually.
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‘The New England Catch’ has its ways with seafood
Summertime calls for meals based on fresh fish and seafood, accompanied by garden bounty and a little bit of adventurous spirit.
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Learning to bake bread gives meaning to prisoners’ days
Inmates at Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston bake nutritious goods, while learning responsibility – and saving the prison money.
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‘A heck of a year’ makes Maine blueberries late – but it’s a good crop
Some pick-your-own farms delay opening their fields to the public this year.
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Touchdown! Maine ice cream company teams up with Patriots
Just in time for National Ice Cream Day on Sunday, Gifford’s announces a cool new partnership with the six-time champions.
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Districts digesting new school nutrition laws, and their costs
Several new laws that affect school nutrition programs will have Maine school districts retool the way they feed students to avoid ‘food shaming’ while providing nutritious meals.
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New apprenticeship program lets aspiring cooks ‘earn while they learn’
Sponsored by HospitalityMaine, it aims to help ease the state’s restaurant labor shortage.
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Bison find home on Western Maine range
Ted and Doretta Colburn own Beech Hill Farm & Bison Ranch in Waterford. Each day they spend with their 35-member herd is a lesson in patience, hard work and self-sustainability.