The nectar chosen by the insects, which varies by season and region, determines how different honeys taste.
Peggy Grodinsky
Staff Writer
Peggy is the editor of the Food & Dining section and the books page at the Portland Press Herald. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a Boston-based national magazine published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle. Peggy has taught food writing to graduate students at New York University and Harvard Extension School. She worked for seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York and spent a year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” in 2017 and in “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” in 2008.
Green Plate Special: Foolproof Hollandaise keeps you from wasting precious local eggs
Goodbye anxiety in the kitchen, hello luscious Hollandaise on the plate.
Dine Out Maine: Standout side dishes for Labor Day – let others do the cooking for you
And they’ll work for Thanksgiving, too.
Grow: Radishes
Radishes are generally considered a spring vegetable. They can be planted as soon as the soil is dry enough to work, and three to five weeks later, you get a sharp-tasting, pretty vegetable to add to your salads or otherwise eat. But radishes also can be grown in the fall. Plant them now and you’ll […]
Maine Gardener: Plant some late-season eye-catchers
Here’s what to look for: height, color and pollinator attractions.
Maine Gardener: Invasion of the jumping worms
It sounds like the title of a horror film, but these invasive Asian worms are very real, and they are very bad for your garden.
Green Plate Special: Eat locally, seasonally – and take a page from Persian kitchens
Cookbook writer and eco-conscious chef Louisa Shafia is visiting Rockport this week to cook and teach.
Dine Out Maine: Summer sparklers to last all year
Stored memories of foods that capture sunshine on a plate will help tide our critic over through the long winter to come.
A mother’s chocolate cake brings up the kitchen confessions of writer Monica Wood
The cake appears in her memoir, and at many a family occasion. But don’t ask Wood to bake it.
Tap lines: Enjoy its easy-going style, but whatever you do, don’t call it Kölsch
Many Portland-area breweries make a Kölsch-style ale, but no surprise the Germans have rules around the name.