Looking for a great way to spend a Saturday? Join Central Lincoln County Adult Education on a day trip to Boston’s Chinatown and the Museum of Fine Arts from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 5…
Cooking
Brooke Spaulding loves cooking and designing, so she has come up with a plan to combine these interests to start a business.
Spaulding, a 2007 graduate of Boothbay Region High School, is…
“Food can make the world bigger. It can change lives.”
Award-winning chef and author Kerry Altiero made this statement in the introduction of his book, “Adventures in Comfort Food.” He…
Nicholas Krunkkala of The Thistle Inn has won the Judges’ Choice Award in the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce’s Claw Down Chef of the Year blind judging competition held Sept. 17.
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Pemaquid Oyster Festival
David Seybold, coordinator of the Maine Champion Oyster Shucking Contest, has issued a challenge to oyster…
Boothbay Region YMCA
With a new school year upon us, the Boothbay Region YMCA is seeking to expand offerings for its members, including middle and high school students enrolled in the after-school program.
“We…
Are you looking for a gorgeous late-summer menu to wow some special friends or family members who will be visiting?
Noted local chef Chris Sprague (whose cooking and menu ideas have been…
There's a place over the harbor in Wiscasset to get a good lobster roll, a lobster dinner, or other seafood delicacies, that sometimes gets passed by because of a…
For anyone looking for something a little out of the ordinary to do while visiting Boothbay Harbor, Cabbage Island Clambakes is a destination that defies the mundane.…
A limited number of tickets are still available for the fourth annual Claw Down, a chef's lobster bite competition, where 19 Boothbay region chefs will compete with their best lobster “bite” for…
Sarah Leah Chase, well-known author of “Nantucket Open House Cookbook” and “Cold-Weather Cooking,” will be at the Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta on Wednesday, Aug. 5 at 11a.m. She will…
Judy and Roger Milinowski’s granddaughter, Elizabeth Szele, comes to Boothbay Harbor for four to six weeks each summer with her…
Boothbay Region Community Television
Maine Lobster Chef of the Year Stephen Richards and Boothbay Region Community Television have teamed up to host a premiere party for new cooking show “Catch ’N‘…
Joe Lane is a multi-generation lobsterman. He said his lobstering ancestors probably date back to when fishermen started fishing for lobsters.
Lane said his father’s family came from England…
Anna Jansen just wants to make bread, and she hopes people will buy it.
A classically trained chef and baker, Jansen graduated first…
Sandra L. Oliver, noted food historian and celebrated author of “Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and their foods at sea and ashore in the nineteenth century,” will present a mini-workshop in…
For anyone who has been to the Trevett Country Store lately (or maybe ever), the lobster and crabmeat rolls are already well-known.
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There's a new kitchen in town. It’s not in a restaurant, it’s not in a take-out concession stand, and it’s not in someone's home.
This…
There's a little bistro in Damariscotta facing the waterfront, just a ways down from the back entrance of Reny's. It has been there for…
The Carmolli family have experienced the sweet taste of success for four decades making fudge and taffy. Dave and Pat Carmolli began Downeast Candies in 1974 almost as an afterthought.
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“Elegant.” That was a word that kept making its way into a conversation during an event at The World is Mine Oyster in Boothbay Harbor one recent June evening.
Chef Stephen Richards, the…
The Lobster Dock, on the East side of Boothbay Harbor, is celebrating its 15th season in business.
Dawn and Mitch Weiss, originally…
On three early summer evenings, June 24 to June 26, FARMS will host cooking classes at the Community Kitchen (above the Rising Tide Community…
A cookbook sale, featuring 140 books in the late Lynne Crink's collection, will be held on Wednesday, June 24 on the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library lawn during the Windjammer Days celebration.…
Fred Munro bought the Blue Moon Cafe from Wendy and Paul Johnson (who now run nearby Red Cup Coffeehouse) in 2006.
Before running Blue…
Patricia Moroz of Starlight Custom Cakes in Boothbay has been selected to make a wedding cake for a $100,000 wedding.
“I have made…
Talking to Ralph and Elena Smith, you get the feeling they just don't know the meaning of “spare time.”
The Smiths are the owners/…
A fifth “What’s Cooking, Doc?” class organized by LincolnHealth will be offered on…
In April, FARMS began a series of morning cooking classes to be enjoyed with Popovers and Tea, at the Community Kitchen (above the Rising Tide…
“With every ebb tide there brings a wave of change.”
Ian Ronan, 26, and Jie (Jenny) Chan, 22, waxed philosophical as they talked about…
On Tuesday, April 28, 5-8 p.m., the FARMS Community Kitchen (upstairs over the Rising Tide Market) in Damariscotta will welcome noted local baker Debra Arter, who will share tips and rules of…
As April draws to an end, the FARMS Community Kitchen (upstairs above the Rising Tide Market) in Damariscotta invites the public to find out what’s cooking in the…
A class on cooking with hearty and flavorful beans will be offered on Thursday, April 23, 6-8 p.m., at the FARMS Community Kitchen, 323 Main Street, Damariscotta (…
There will be a few changes at the Thistle Inn in Boothbay Harbor this summer, according to owner Max Ross.
Ross and his wife, Jennifer, have owned the inn and…
Cooking delicious, mouthwatering southern food with soul can be somewhat difficult for some cooks. While for others, cooking food from the soul comes naturally yet…
Focus on Agriculture in Rural Maine Schools (FARMS) will begin a series of morning cooking classes, to be enjoyed with popovers and tea, at the Community Kitchen above the Rising Tide Community…
Tony Bickford, formerly the chef at the Thistle Inn in Boothbay Harbor, is opening his own restaurant in Wiscasset.
Bickford, who is…
Chef Bennett Collins of Harvest Moon Pizza, whose organic wood-fired pizza is familiar to shoppers at the Rising Tide Market in Damariscotta, as well as to patrons…
What’s Cooking
Tuesday, March 17 is the day to dress from head to toe in green to celebrate St. Patrick's Day! When we think of this Irish holiday, corned beef and cabbage,…
Stacey McLellan was in her restaurant, Capers, on Monday, March 2, when Lori Higgins poked her head in the door and asked if she was open. She didn’t see the “Open”…
FARMS, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing area students and their families closer to local agriculture and healthy eating, has recently hired Youth…
The FARMS Community Kitchen “Leafy Greens” class is the first in a series of vegetarian cooking classes to be offered on…
With one snowstorm after another, the complaints about the piles on our roofs, the shoveling of walks, and the time we're spending cleaning off cars have become…
The smell of fresh bread baking is almost irresistible and so is the upcoming Central Lincoln County Adult Education course Bake the Night Away offered, Tuesday, Jan. 27 from 5 to 8 p.m. at…
Anyone who has driven into the Boothbay Harbor Hannaford's parking lot lately has noticed that a large part of the lot is closed off to parking.
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A festive cooking celebration was enjoyed by the fifth grade students of Bristol Consolidated School last week at the FARMS (Focus on Agriculture in Rural Maine Schools) Community Kitchen in…
Russell Pinkham knows seafood. He's been selling it since the early '80s when his parents opened a wholesale clam business on River Road in Boothbay.
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McSeagull’s manager Alyssa Allen and co-worker Jeff Stoddard presented checks to local charities on Dec. 16 at the Boothbay Region Elementary School.
A total of $5,790 was raised from the…
The boys from the south who ran the Lighthouse Lobster Shack at the Heritage Village in Wiscasset are at it again.
Robert Harris and…
