But the recipe for tandoori chicken is worth the price of admission.
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.
Posted inFood & Dining
How one woman set out to cook her way to being a true Mainer
An out-of-stater prepares chowder and blueberry pie, and she invites a group of Mainers to find out whether she passes muster.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Politics, Recipes
For Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins, meatloaf serves as political metaphor
She shares her ‘bipartisan’ recipe in a new cookbook celebrating the widely loved comfort food.
Posted inChop-Chop, Food & Dining, Recipes
Annie Mahle is back with her second ‘Sugar & Salt’ book
Mahle cooks at home and, when it’s summer, in the galley of a schooner plying the waters of Penobscot Bay.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Three ways to add lobster to your Super Bowl party
No matter who you’re rooting for Sunday, you should be loyal to lobster.
Posted inCookbook Reviews, Food & Dining, Recipes
‘Sweet Sugar, Sultry Spice’ offers unusual, delicious recipes
But Malika Ameen’s cookbook has too many recipes that are overly complicated or imprecisely written.
Posted inSource
Editor’s Letter: Nominate your sustainable hero for our Source Awards
Nominations are due by Feb. 27 for the April awards ceremony.
Posted inFood, Recipes
‘So bovine’: Maine singer-songwriter Denny Breau’s pot roast strikes a chord
Breau, whose family is music royalty in the state, has been preparing the meal since his 20s. It inspired his only song about food.
Posted inChop-Chop, Food
Don Lindgren shares his thoughts on rare, old cookbooks and what they can teach us
Rabelais, Lindgren’s shop in Biddeford, holds its annual sale in mid-November.
Posted inFood, Politics
At Portland polling places, voting is sweetened by homemade treats
The Italian Heritage Center offered an elaborate spread of sweets and dinners to go. At First Baptist Church in North Deering, tray after tray of homemade cookies – all free.