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Good To-Go

Good To-Go


By Will Grunewald
Photograph by Michael D. Wilson
[dropcap letter=”A”] decade ago, Jennifer Scism was running a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York. But along the way she married a Mainer, got tired of the grind, moved to York, and started backpacking. For overnight eats, husband David Koorits’s specialty was Annie’s mac ‘n’ cheese with tuna. “I was like, wait, I’m a chef,” Scism recalls. “I can do better.” In 2014, she and Koorits started Good To-Go. Now, their Kittery-based company makes up to 80,000 dehydrated meals a month, sold everywhere from local groceries to REI. East Coast hikers, Scism notes, have more traditional tastes — chili, say — than West Coasters — bibimbap. Except for the chicken gumbo, dishes are vegetarian. Indian korma, for instance, has carrots, parsnips, green beans, and chickpeas in gently spiced tomato-yogurt sauce — a taste of the subcontinent for a North Woods trek.

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