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rhubarb squares

Make Amanda Beal’s Grandma’s Yummy Rhubarb Squares

The Maine cabinet member’s family recipe is one of more than 200 in the new volume of the Maine Community Cookbook.
The Four Maine Craft Vodkas Your Cocktail Cabinet Needs

The Four Maine Craft Vodkas Your Cocktail Cabinet Needs

Big hat-tip to sugar kelp, organic horseradish, Oxford Hills spring water, and good old-fashioned Maine spuds.
Portland’s Leeward Might Be America’s Best New Restaurant

Portland’s Leeward Might Be America’s Best New Restaurant

The Arts District Italian eatery is on the James Beard Awards short list.
University of Pittsburgh graduate student Mason Unger and a team of research assistants on their way to identify and count bees pollinating wild blueberry flowers at Wyman’s.

The Sweet Science Behind Maine’s Wild Blueberries

Wyman's commitment to forward-looking research ensures wild blueberries continue to thrive.
Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family cover

In a New Anthology, Heavy-Hitting Maine Writers Focus on Food

With essays by Lily King, Richard Ford, and others, Breaking Bread raises funds to fight hunger.

Fill Up at Station 118, Thomaston’s Gas Station Turned BBQ Joint

Smoked meats and homemade hot sauces are the focus on a menu of crowd-pleasers.
knish from BenReuben’s Knishery in South Portland

There’s Something Knish-y Going On at BenReuben’s

A South Portland takeout spot riffs on a classic nosh.
Adam West, 36, began raking wild blueberries before he was old enough to attend kindergarten. Now, he helps lead Wyman's, one of Maine’s oldest family businesses.

Working for Wyman’s: Four Generations, One Maine Company

For more than a century, wild blueberries have been a way of life in Downeast Maine. For four generations of the West Family, that legacy is personal.

Dolce Amici Brings a Taste of Italy to Downtown Norway

Part cocktail bar and part gelateria, the multipurpose restaurant serves up everything from meatballs to panini to tiramisu.
Topsham blacksmith Nicholas Downing is bringing back the loggerhead, an old-school cocktail tool.

If You’re Not Heating Your 19th-Century Flip with a Maine-Made Loggerhead, What Are You Even Doing?

Topsham blacksmith Nicholas Downing is bringing back an old-school cocktail tool.
perfectly salted chocolate-chip cookies from Sullivan House Bakery in Gorham, Maine

Sullivan House Bakery is the Carb-y Hangout Gorham Needed

And its inch-thick, perfectly salted chocolate chippers are pure bliss.
Jen Levin, founder of True Fin Seafood

Can True Fin Buoy Maine’s Floundering Groundfish Fleet?

The Portland specialty seafood dealer is trying to change the paradigm of Maine groundfishing.
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Doughnuts from the Cookie Jar Pastry Shop.

Doughnuts in Maine: From Inception to Perfection


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