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Bixby Chocolate advent calendar

Our Favorite Maine-Themed Advent Calendar Is Filled With Amazing Chocolate

We love the sharp design of Bixby Chocolate’s new calendar — and the sweets, made in Rockland.
boxing cranberries at Birch Bog Farm

Newbie Farmers Preserve a Pick-Your-Own Organic-Cranberry Operation in Western Maine

Cranberries sold fresh need to be dry-harvested, which is how it’s done at Birch Bog Farm.
charred corn and tomato salad

Camden’s wolfpeach Restaurant is Unorthodox — and Unmissable

Simplicity is the mantra at this hyper-local (and gratuity-free) fine-dining spot.
Allen’s Coffee Brandy Taste Better Out of a Collectible Lighthouse Bottle

Allen’s Coffee Brandy Tastes Better Out of a Collectible Lighthouse Bottle

The maker of Maine’s favorite coffee liqueur is releasing six beacon-shaped bottles — the latest, Petit Manan Light.
Erin French's clam chowder is Governor Janet Mills's favorite

Governor Janet Mills’s Favorite Clam Chowder Recipe

Erin French's sweet clam chowder is “a quintessentially Maine recipe," Mills says.
fête rhubarb wine from Eighteen Twenty Wines

Can a Veggie Wine Taste Just Like Regular Wine?

By adding a bit of natural flavoring to its rhubarb wine, Portland’s Eighteen Twenty Wines says it can approximate familiar wine styles.
grain growing in a field

Maine Craft Beer Is Fermenting an Agricultural Revolution

A by-the-numbers look at craft beer and Maine-grown grains.
Chef Christian Hayes's fish chowder with bacon

Chef Christian Hayes’s Fish Chowder Recipe

The Chopped champion pairs classic techniques with flavor-bomb ingredients to create his fish chowder.

Matt Spector’s Lobster Chowder Recipe

The Harbor Cafe chef adds mirepoix and dashi for a full-flavored chowder.
Urban Farm Fermentory’s seaweed cider was a trailblazing macroalgal beverage, predating the inaugural Seaweed Week

Seaweed Week Founder Josh Rogers Wants You to Drink More Kelp

The seaweed evangelist wants to build up Maine’s seaweed economy, one sip at a time.
Sean Turley holding apple picker tool

Amazing Cider Man: The Maine Lawyer Turned Apple-Foraging Obsessive

Sean Turley knows that with great fruit come great libations.
lemon tart from Salt & Pepper and Sugar Too

Salt & Pepper and Sugar Too Fulfills a Culinary Couple’s Longtime Dream

In Wilton, Don and Mary Beane serve up comforting and creative dishes they’ve been perfecting for decades.
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