Reporting Aside: Tom Nale of Waterville created a cookbook featuring his mother’s Middle Eastern cuisine recipes and is giving all the proceeds to the Waterville Area Soup Kitchen.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
On The Edge: Preparing for Christmas without the one who loved it most
Is there a Santa’s lap for widowers to sit on and whisper in his ear, “I want my wife back?” J.P. Devine asks.
On the Edge: Guacamole, por favor
As a boy from St. Louis, I had never tasted an avocado.
Reporting Aside: Embracing the holiday season
Remember to slow down and embrace the holidays, as they are fleeting, Amy Calder writes.
In the Field: My high school served moose meat
In 1965, four schoolboy hunters helped transform a tragedy into a food bonanza for their fellow students.
On the Edge: The last doctor
I was at the time, a strapping figure of a semi middle-aged fellow, a retired actor/writer who, at the behest of She, came here to grow old. And now we’re talking about doctors?
Reporting Aside: Front & Main chef leaves Waterville with a gift
The executive chef at a Waterville restaurant who is moving out of state wanted to leave a “parting gift” — one that was key to his own survival while growing up, Amy Calder writes.