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Eats: Lewiston’s Cowbell brings the beef
Lewiston’s newest restaurant is all about the burger.
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Eats: Flux Restaurant pushes the limits in Lisbon
From the classics to cutting edge, the LaVerdiere brothers are pulling in diners with their locally sourced offerings. Portland, Portland, Portland. It’s Maine’s holy city of food and restaurants. Bon Appetit magazine named it 2018’s “Restaurant City of the Year.” If you’re one of the huddled masses living outside the boundaries of this food mecca, […]
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Eats: Hold on to summer with these fruit soups
These three examples of fruit soup offer a welcome, and decidedly different, addition to dinner. (Karen Schneider photo) Cold soups are the perfect beginning or ending to those sweet September picnics, barbecues, fancy company dinners on the deck, or just when you’ve become Desperate for Something Different. Recently, I made three fruit soups in my […]
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Mexico's delicacy is my childhood monster
I’m about to confront my darkest demon, and it looks just like a plate of delicious corn risotto. On the surface, there wouldn’t seem to be a problem. I love corn. I love rice. I love cheese. But also on the surface, quite literally, are little gray dots. The server explains that they’re made from […]
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Serving up a dynamite sandwich in Madison, Maine
Madison’s Dynamite sandwich is considered the bomb in these parts, but was it really born in Rhode Island? Don’t even try. Steve DeSanctis isn’t about to give up his family’s secret recipe for the Dynamite, a sandwich known to only two communities on the planet. One of those is his hometown of Madison, Maine, population […]
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Eats: Moxie reduction is secret to taste bud bliss
On the evening of Friday the 13th, I had the auspicious honor of once again serving as a judge in the annual Moxie Recipe Contest at Lisbon’s wonderful Moxie Festival. My fellow judges, Garrett Mason and Jonathan Jones, were just as excited as I was to taste 2018’s Moxie-laced offerings and pronounce the winners. Interestingly, […]
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A new chef takes Nezinscot Farm’s well-known variety of local, fresh food and boosts its unique vibe
If you’ve never ventured east off Route 4 at the intersection of Route 117 in Turner, you are missing some great food, a bit of bliss and maybe even some magic. Nezinscot Farm has covered a lot of ground in the more than 30 years Gregg and Gloria Varney have owned this third-generation family farm. […]
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Eats: Foil packets make cooking easier
Whether you want more relaxing and less cooking during your summer stay-cation, you’re camping at one of Maine’s gorgeous state parks or you want to make a perfect, no-fuss, Dad-style meal on Father’s Day, flavor-packed foil packets are the answer to the age-old question “What’s for dinner?” You former Scouts out there most likely learned […]
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What a s’more-gas-bord!
Cookies, peanut butter and fruit are just a few ways to shake up this sticky summer classic. Since it’s the beginning of barbecue-picnic-camping season, let’s talk about everyone’s favorite summertime treat: s’mores. As you may already know, s’more is a contraction of the phrase “some more” — as in “Give me s’more!” I mean, who […]