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It's cookout weather!

Fending off the picnic “fruitcake”
If you’re attending (or hosting) a cookout, then have a heart and offer your guests something besides the obvious norm. Here are a few ideas.

By TODD RICHARD | July 23, 2008

What to eat in a bikini

Brazilian fried chicken + potato salad + rice
Brazil isn’t all about major wax jobs and itsy-bitsy bikinis.

By LINDSAY STERLING | July 02, 2008

Backyard barbecue basics

Blake Smithson shares smoky secrets
The intricacies of barbecue as a method, a meat, and a meal are several. Thankfully, Smithson is generous with his seasoned advice.

By TODD RICHARD | June 25, 2008

Origami appetizers

Otherwise known as Somalian samboosas
Welcome to a tasty morsel of Somalian life.

By LINDSAY STERLING | June 04, 2008

Fiddling with fiddleheads

A seasonal treat, explained
The fiddlehead is Maine’s simplest, and quite possibly Maine’s most revered, delicacy.

By TODD RICHARD | May 28, 2008

Written in English for the first time
In a wind-bound seaside cottage rental where she’s been living this year, Sasha Prygoniuk, a 25-year old Ukrainian, has volunteered to teach me (and you) how to “kook,” (as she so charmingly pronounces it).

By LINDSAY STERLING | May 07, 2008

Gastronomic stimulus package

Splurge a little at the Cheese Iron
This, coupled with the thaw and other natural stimulus packages, write a recipe for the spoils of spring: maturing cheeses, bright wines, green garlic ramps, and outdoor eating.

By TODD RICHARD | April 30, 2008

On the nature of things

Two Greek perspectives on traditional food
Too often we seek just the wrong thing in the legacy of Greece, looking for something deep, weighty, and purifying, when the lesson of the Hellenic way of life should be just the opposite.

By BRIAN DUFF | April 23, 2008

Teach me your beans

Whatever they may be called
I had assumed the choice of beans — black, pinto, or refried — was a Latin American thing.

By LINDSAY STERLING | April 09, 2008

Fishing for filmmakers

Maine struggles to attract the movie industry
When you can make Shreveport look like Bridgton for less money, what’s the bottom-line allure of filming in Maine?

By DEIRDRE FULTON | April 02, 2008

Home-cooked satisfaction

Southern-style cooking needs self-rising cornmeal
Trips to my mom’s house always involve her spoiling me and my friends with Georgia-born home cooking.

By TODD RICHARD | April 02, 2008

Changing your world view

One Pad Thai at a time
Real wealth doesn’t have anything to do with having granite countertops.

By LINDSAY STERLING | March 12, 2008

Jump right in

Food to answer leap year's questions
Leap year should remind us that the arbitrary and chaotic lurk even in the monotonous tick of the clock and turn of the calendar page.

By BRIAN DUFF | February 27, 2008

From Mangoland to Portland

Venezuelan arepas bring the tropics to Sleetville
It’s a particularly wonderful experience to eat Venezuelan food in the middle of a sleet storm in Maine.

By LINDSAY STERLING | February 13, 2008

Wrap it up

Eating sandwiches makes a bad economy better
As the economy slides into recession it is time we started to think more seriously about the sandwich.

By BRIAN DUFF | January 30, 2008

Vibrant and crunchy

Home-cooked Turkish delights
In the shadow of the Maine Mall is a residential street lined with duplexes that all look alike.

By LINDSAY STERLING | January 16, 2008

The iPhone of markets

Fat Baxter’s mealtime offerings
Residents of Munjoy Hill got a Christmakwanzakkah present early this year in the form of Fat Baxter’s East End Market.

By TODD RICHARD | January 02, 2008

Linked cuisine

Portland's food scene steps online
A year ago the Portland online food community was stuck in the Golden age.

By BRIAN DUFF | December 19, 2007

Curing boredom

Leave it to the Chinese to solve the riddle
If you asked me the secret to Chinese food a couple weeks ago, I might have guessed: MSG?

By LINDSAY STERLING | December 12, 2007

That’s amore

Indian pizzas — and others — tempt Portland with sultry spice
The invention of pizza in the 17th century coincided with a turning point for the most enduring sex-adverse culture in history — Catholicism.

By BRIAN DUFF | November 28, 2007

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