Lincolnville Business Group has decided to cancel the Pickles Preserves and Pies event scheduled for October 3, 2020 due to limited vendor interest, according to the Business Group, in a news…
Cooking
UMaine Extension
September brings the bounty of both summer and fall produce to Maine. Five new food preservation webinars from University of Maine Cooperative Extension focus on preserving local food with safety…
Coastal Mountains Land Trust has submitted the following:
We still have berries! Coastal Mountains Land Trust invites the public to register for a second full week of community…
Many Midcoast restaurants have had to completely re-think their seating models in the summer of 2020 due to the social distancing…
CAMDEN — Though Brooklyn native Jenna Sprafkin has worked all over the world as a professional chef, she kicked off her career 13 years ago in Maine, spending six years in the Pine Tree State…
Baking through a pandemic
ROCKLAND — The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in scores of people seeing a reduction of income, including Rockland resident Shelby Crispin.
Crispin was recently temporarily laid off from…
reduce food waste, develop healthy habits, raise money for Game Loft
BELFAST — The Game Loft has launched the Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Pantry Challenge Fundraiser. The Pantry Challenge is a quest to eat as much of the food you already have, with little…
Students in culinary arts and baking create sumptuous feast for $10
ROCKLAND—For years, the Mid-Coast School of Technology’s students in Culinary Arts and Baking/Pastry programs have been putting on a World Café, a hands-on, real life execution of their culinary…
Rockport Marine celebrates the little potato
ROCKPORT – One thing we enjoy in the Midcoast is a good festival and we certainly have our share. One of the lesser-known festivals, now in its third year, is the Tater Tot Festival that takes…
UNION—It’s been five, long years for Union herbalist Katheryn Langelier, owner of Herbal Revolution, contending with a lawsuit filed against her and two other herbalists for their use of the term…
CAMDEN — The smell of chowder wafted along the Camden Public Landing, Saturday, Aug. 31, fleshing out winning chefs and recipes, though the real winners remain the charitable recipients of an…
‘Sometimes the best way to find what you're looking for is to make it yourself’
BELFAST — Every entrepreneur sources passion for their business in a completely unique method.
For Nick Grim and Noelle Wingate, they sourced the passion behind their business,…
In business
VINALHAVEN – Robert Young was born and grew up on Vinalhaven. He married his high school sweetheart, Kristie, and they have two daughters. Young has been lobstering all his life. He started at the…
ROCKLAND — It’s at the bend at 606 Old County Road. You know it because anyone who has traveled Old County Road knows you slow down to 25 mph and watch for golf carts crossing in the spring,…
Boiling down the sap and learning how maple sugar is made
CAMDEN/ROCKPORT – It’s always a treat to watch the steam rise off the big boiling pot in the Sugar Shack at the…
Union Historical Society hosts a Come Spring Tea
UNION – The Union Historical Society hosted its first Come Spring Tea, at the Robbins House, which serves as home to the historical society, at 343 Common Road, on the Union Common. Featured with…
‘We are going to do our best and make delicious food’
ROCKPORT – After a year of renovations to the former Hoboken Garden’s building at 310 Commercial Street, in Rockport, Maine Street Meats and Provisions has opened its doors in their new location…
The small batch craft distillery will be Rhumb Line’s new neighbor
CAMDEN— The “quiet” side of the Camden harbor, the marina and boatyard owned by Lyman Morse at Wayfarer Marine, is about to bustle with more traffic this spring with the opening…
ROCKLAND — At the Lighthouse Museum, where we eagerly collected our ticket badges, maps of participating businesses, and no-waste, reusable, metal pie-eating forks to begin sampling the delicacies…
Meatless Mondays
Monday, January 28, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Rockland Congregational Church, 180 Limerock Street, Rockland, ME
Have you considered reducing how much meat you eat…
ROCKLAND — As part of the Check out Movement and Healthy Living at Your Library series, Rockland Public Library announces the availability of six new fitness kits for checkout by Rockland Library…
desciptive stories about their recipes
CAMDEN – On November 7, the Camden Rockport Middle School sixth grade had a buffet in the cafeteria, a culmination of a project that combined language arts with family and consumer science. The…
‘Eat them, don’t save them’
ROCKPORT — There is a saying that goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There’s also a saying that goes, a child’s imagination knows no boundaries. Both held true on Wednesday, December 12,…
A dash of humor, liberal sprinkling of personal stories, a splash of gorgeous cinematography featuring the Boothbay region and Mumbai, blended well … just a snippet of the recipe used for the…
Head Start 4 Hunger’s innovative meal subscription kit inspires, educates families how to cook together
BELFAST— For the past year, a bag of food and a specific recipe have come home each week with Crystal and Tai Ivers’s young sons, Noah, 3 and Gerald, 5, from the children’s Head Start program,…
For the month of December, we continue our “Shop Local” series to shine the spotlight on local craftspeople who make things by hand. It’s important to shop local and to support the innovators and…
William J. Brennan, President of Maine Maritime Academy, said a purchase and sale agreement has been signed with American Iron and Metal, owners of the former Verso paper mill in Bucksport, to…
Waldo County Technical Center’s Friday lunches will run until June
BELFAST— The kitchen at Waldo County Technical Center is fired up with activity on Friday mornings as Chef Matt Maniscalco works with high school students on preparing a simple menu. On October 26…
How to stay open year-round
Bobby Morgan, owner of El Ancla Mexican Restaurant, on the Public Landing in Camden,…
Single-man operation hopes to continue success
ROCKPORT — There’s a lot going on inside the State of Maine Cheese building at 461 Commercial St. in Rockport, and Oliver Perkins’ boutique charcuterie, “A Small Good” has taken up residence with…
The Salty Owl teams up with the Lions Club every Tuesday serving up homemade tacos
SOUTH THOMASTON— A little more than a year ago, Erin and Casey Dominguez launched their new restaurant, The Salty…
More than $17,000 will benefit KCHC
ROCKLAND —If you were anywhere near Maverick Street in Rockland on Saturday you couldn't miss the scent of grilled steak wafting through the air from the Hannaford parking lot.
Chef Kerry…
CAMDEN – Long Grain restaurant, formally of 31 Elm Street, has moved around the corner to its new home at 20 Washington Street in Camden. The move was made by staff and friends on on Sunday and…
On Eating and Loving Food
Okay, this is it. My last column in the Boothbay Register. Kind of a good thing, kind of a sad thing.
I titled it The Last Supper, not for any deep, dark reasons – merely because my first…
Chipped beef on toast represents centuries of military history
CAMDEN – Regardless of the branch of the military one may have served within, S.O.S. was a regular dish of any chow line, although there are variations. Its roots can be traced back, possibly, to…
On Eating and Loving Food
Do you order onion rings in restaurants? I don’t, unless I’ve seen some there, and I know they’re freshly made, and prepared and cooked right.
There have been too many times I’ve asked if…
meals all crafted in commercial kitchen
BELFAST — Campers and hikers have long relied on civilian MREs, the military term for Meals Ready to Eat, those self-contained, individual field rations in lightweight…
On Eating and Loving Food
Okay so I’ve written about lobster before, but it’s spring in Maine, and that means lobster season is coming.
It’s not that you can’t eat lobster in the off-season, but it’s usually far…
On Eating and Loving Food
I’ve written about tacos in general, but I’m going to get specific here: Haddock tacos. Most restaurant menus list them as simply fish tacos. If they do that, and there’s no description with the…
On Eating and Loving Food
So last week I wrote about Thai-inspired chicken soup. The next day I saw that Facebook friend Peter Ross had posted a recipe for Crispy Sesame chicken with a sticky Asian sauce, that called for a…
opening Cinco de Mayo
CAMDEN – El Ancla means the anchor and on Saturday, May 5, at 7 p.m., Camden’s newest restaurant venture, El Ancla, will open on Public Landing. The restaurant was the former home of…
On Eating and Loving Food
I have a cold.
Considering the winter and spring that I’ve just endured, this is nothing. Some day I’ll tell you all the details of the winter/spring of 2018, but it’s still too raw, and…
On Eating and Loving Food
Sometime last year I made an olive oil cake. I shared the recipe in a column. It was good, but what made it great was the ricotta, whipped up with some sugar and fresh-squeezed lemon juice, fresh…
On Eating and Loving Food
Mark Twain once wrote, "Training is everything. A peach was once a bitter almond; a cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education."
Whatever that means.
I think…
On Eating and Loving Food
No matter how you look at it, noodles are good. They’re comforting. They’re soft and chewy. They’re fattening ...
Noodles can be a base for pretty much anything. What is pasta? Noodles.…
Collection bins placed around community
The Camden Hills Regional High School Windplanners team continues an initiative started last…
Plain and unassuming, but down right homey
BELFAST – If you're not looking for it, it's easy to miss. The small unassuming location at 118 High Street in Belfast sits directly across form the Belfast Co-Op. Inside there isn't much more.…
Coffee, sandwiches, fresh bread and bagels
ROCKPORT – Rockport welcomed SeaFolk to town March 17. The coffee shop is at 22 Central Ave and had an unannounced opening. There's not even a sign up, yet. It's new, comfortable, inviting, and…
BELFAST—On Friday, March 16, for those shopping at the Belfast Farmer’s Market in the greenhouse of Aubuchon Hardware in Belfast, there were plenty of fresh, farm-grown ingredients to make a…
On Eating and Loving Food
On the day of that gorgeous, serene snowfall last week (easy for me to say – I didn’t lose power) Sue Mello sent me a link to a recipe for bread: “Slow bread.”
The headline, on Slate.com,…
