Lobster stew, in all its simplicity, is a total celebration, a glamor dish reserved for Christmas Eve or for special guests arriving from away who want their first taste of…
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Not everyone in Maine celebrates the year-end holidays with lobster, but in my family, my mother considered a bright red lobster a proper commemoration of the feast, whether Christmas or New Year’s.…
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I found butterfish in my local fish market, Jess’s Market in Rockland, Maine—a fine source for fresh seafood as well as solid information about where it comes from and how to cook…
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June, my friend Peggy says, is Maine’s great secret. Long before the tourist hordes have descended, when you can still avoid a line at Red’s Eats in Wiscasset, when the J boats…
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The Craft of Writing Food: New Dates, New Material, New Guests I’ll be back at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine, for the second edition of this popular food writing worshop. June 23-29…
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I lived in Cyprus off and on in the early ‘70s before the Turkish invasion that split the island into two irreconcilable political entities, one Turkish, one Greek. Our village, on the…