When I arrived in Portland in the early ‘80s, the culinary landscape was bleak. We had Valle’s for steak and Boone’s for seafood. For variety, there was Hollow Reed, Hungry Hunza and Hu Shang. Then, slowly but surely, talented chefs and taste-shapers – both native and...
This delectable recipe that’s as beautiful as it is tasty comes from Ellen Barnes, author of A Taste of Taber: Classic Maine Coastal Cooking. Ellen is also the innkeeper of Captain Lindsey House Inn, a Maine Coast inn on Rockland, ME, that celebrates both...
Among my favorite Italian expressions is, “Anni e bicchieri di vino no si contano mai,” or “Years and glasses of wine should never be counted.” Here at Enoteca Athena in Brunswick, Maine, I am eager to begin a relaxed, uncounted evening of...
Editor’s note: Our friend and fellow traveler.com, Libby Margolis-Pineo, who spends many weeks each year shopping for products for her import business, sends us musings on sipping and noshing and recipes from a recent trip to Italy. She writes: It’s late afternoon...
