It’s been almost a year since my first food column. After a year you start getting short on ideas – for headlines, and food.
But somehow they keep on coming to me. Either from my own…
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On Eating and Loving Food
On Saturday, Jan. 21, I took a walk down Cross Point Road in Edgecomb. It was a warm-ish (for January) day, and I wanted to take some pictures for a short, sweet…
On Eating and Loving Food
I love waking up on a Saturday or Sunday morning. My first thought is about what I'll have for breakfast.
My weekend breakfasts can be a little (or a lot) less healthy than weekday…
On Eating and Loving Food
Okay, so last week I wrote about curried chicken. That contains apples and raisins, making it a savory AND sweet dish. Who doesn't like that combo? Not me, that's for sure. (It could also be…
On Eating and Loving Food
I used to call it Czechoslovakian curried chicken. I Googled Czechoslovakian because I wasn't sure how to spell it. Try finding that word on the internet. You can, but…
Hidden gems wait to be discovered in the Boothbay region, like sudden views of a twinkling sea, shingled cottages on little islands, and shops and general stores that stock the usual…
Every year for a few days sometime before Christmas, Jon Lewis takes over the kitchen at his home in Boothbay. He’s a good cook, and normally shares the cooking with…
On Eating and Loving Food
Have you had the Scottish cast iron roasted salmon with toasted sesame oil and tamari glaze at the Carriage House Restaurant in East Boothbay? Have you had the white and black sesame encrusted,…
On Eating and Loving Food
So, it’s the day after Christmas.
I woke up this morning and resolved to stop eating crap for the foreseeable future.
I headed to the kitchen and started dictating this column to the…
Originally, I wrote this complete piece as a rant against fruitcake, and a large part of it will remain a rant. I judge, I know, but I'm willing to bet a lot of us don't like fruitcake, and the…
A new non-profit cooking school is in the works in Midcoast Maine.
Isabella Mastroianni, just back from Ireland, where she attended a…
On Eating and Loving Food
Polar vortex, cold, wind chill, chilly: All references to the weather last weekend, when the polar vortex descended in full force. Temperatures hovered around zero,…
On Eating and Loving Food
Fall is when I start thinking about apples and apple pie. I rarely have either in the summer.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t care less about eating an apple. A fresh, crunchy cold apple just…
On Eating and Loving Food
Speaking of comfort foods (soups and chowders over the past couple weeks), have you had a chicken pie from Wiscasset General Store lately? No? Okay, don't say I didn't warn you. If you're trying…
Join local baker, cook, and farmer Peter Kraus Thursday, Dec. 1 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Morris Farm kitchen for a fun evening of baking, tasting and discussion.
Peter will be…
On Eating and Loving Food
Turkey. Now there's an interesting subject. Wonder what made me think of that. Just kidding.
CNN reported that last Thanksgiving an…
His name is Kevin Kiley, and his official title at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor is technical director. At this time of year he is also known as the Holiday Wizard for his remarkable ability…
On Eating and Loving Food
It's that time of year. Time for chowders like the one I made last week, and soups like the one I made last night — curried cream of butternut squash soup.
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Moratorium on Northern Shrimp Commercial Fishing continues for 2017
In response to the depleted condition of the northern shrimp resource, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Northern Shrimp Section extended the moratorium on commercial fishing for…
Join us for a hands-on workshop on making homemade rustic pasta from freshly milled Maine Grain flours. Class participants will use…
On Eating and Loving Food
Hot chowder on a cold day: The ultimate comfort food. Seriously. Imagine taking a long walk — like 10,000 steps — on one of these cold days. Like Angie McLellan, Julie…
On Eating and Loving Food
I used to pick mussels off the rocks in front of the cottage in Cushing at low tide.
We had them way too often when I was a kid. They…
The Morris Farm continues its 2016 series of cooking and food preparation classes with Making Soup from Leftovers on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in the Morris Farm Kitchen…
On Eating and Loving Food
Okay, so a couple weeks ago I told you about my favorite choco, or chocolate cookies. At some point in my ramblings about those I mentioned my other favorite cookies: Ginger. I never shortened it…
On Eating and Loving Food
I know I've mentioned salads with hot pan fried sliced steak thrown on top — maybe more than once, but I haven't really stressed how good it is.
A hot steak salad is my go-to dinner —…
Central Lincoln County Adult Ed
Join Stonewall Kitchen cooking instructor, Chef Chris Toy for a one night course and experience the fresh flavors of Greek cooking. The course is being offered through Central…
On Eating and Loving Food
Choco cookies: That's what I wrote on the recipe card 30 years ago, when I was into shortening any word that could be shortened: lobs, spags and balls and choco were…
Shorter days and cooler nights mean Maine’s gardening season is rapidly coming to an end. So what do you do with all of those tomatoes that never ripened?
You might make green tomato relish…
The Morris Farm begins its 2016 series of cooking and food preparation classes with two timely sessions: Seasonal and Simple Meals on Friday, Oct. 21 and…
On Eating and Loving Food
Remember Crepes Suzette? I think back when I first heard the word “crepe” it was never mentioned without the last name, Suzette.
…
“Hands across the water, heads across the sky.”
Remember those words from Paul and Linda McCartney's song “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey?” I always thought it was “hands across the sky,” too.…
On Eating and Loving Food
Back in the mid ’70s I was a soda jerk at Mitchell's Drug Store on Townsend Ave. It was during my first winter in Boothbay Harbor after I came back from sailing to the Caribbean with my first…
Over 100 people attended a cookout at Barrett Park Sept. 17 hosted by the Boothbay Harbor Republican Committee.
State Representative Stephanie Hawke and Lisa Orne-Hallinan were at the grills…
Chef Delroy “Dice” Bennett from the Rocktide Inn in Boothbay Harbor won the first place judges award in the fifth annual Claw Down competition held by the Boothbay Region Chamber of Commerce at…
Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce
The Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce announces two additional chefs, Chef Fabrizio Ventricini, executive chef at Ports of Italy and Chef Delroy “Dice” Bennett, will be participating in…
Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce
Now in its fifth year, Claw Down, the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce ‘s annual lobster-bite competition will be held Thursday, Sept. 15 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Ocean Point Marina in…
On Eating and Loving Food
“For decades we've been trucking our super fresh, delicious scallops to out of state processing centers where they're mixed in with the stuff from the Federal fishery…
On Eating and Loving Food
OK, so as I said last week this column has been dragging on for half a year now. I just counted 25 food columns! Yikes! Time flies.
I’…
The Kefauver Studio & Gallery, Damariscotta, presents the first in its series of “Writers’ Workshops” on Saturday, Oct. 22 and Sunday, Oct. 23. The workshop will include presentations, hands-…
Okay so I cheated you out of a recipe last week. I'm sorry, but every time I started writing about the one I'm going to give you this week, my ADD kicked in and I got…
On eating and loving food
So, on the off chance any of you were freaking out because my food column didn’t appear in last week’s Boothbay Register, Wiscasset Newspaper and Penbay Pilot, relax, I…
Elizabeth Evans has rubbed elbows with some celebrities.
These days she can usually be found at the East Boothbay General Store, at…
“Welcome to my table.” That’s what Christine Schweighauser will greet you with when you go to her new restaurant at 1 Taco Alley in Damariscotta. That’s because the main table in the dining area…
There’s a new fast food joint on Route 1 in Wiscasset, beside Twisted Iron Customs, a custom shop for anything having to do with motorcycles.
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On eating and loving food
I like fast food joints.
That's not to say I'm a fast food junkie, but I'm not above stopping at a McDonald's or a fast food takeout…
Healthy Lincoln County
The free summer meal program in Lincoln County continues to be a success, according to Patricia Buck-Welton, program coordinator for Healthy Lincoln County. The program is a U.S.…
The new executive chef at Linekin Bay Resort has an impressive resumé.
And he makes his own salt.
Brian Hough began his restaurant career as a dishwasher to pay his way through college…
Okay I know I’ve said this so many times you’re probably sick of hearing it but I really do love food, and eating. As I say in my disclaimer at the bottom of each of my columns I’m not a chef and…
