Peggy is the editor of the Food & Dining section and the books page at the Portland Press Herald. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a Boston-based national magazine published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle. Peggy has taught food writing to graduate students at New York University and Harvard Extension School. She worked for seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York and spent a year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” in 2017 and in “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” in 2008.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2021
Dine Out Maine: Behind the scenes of a coronavirus scare
Restaurants complain they aren’t getting enough guidance on what to do when staff test positive for COVID-19.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2021
A Georgetown professor trades her classroom for a police beat
Assigned to a D.C. police district with the highest concentration of Black residents, poverty and reported crime, Rosa Brooks tells stories of Black citizens with few choices, their Black victims and the police who are caught in the middle.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2021
Bedside table: One way to take your mind off the pandemic? Read about a very different disaster
‘In Harm’s Way’ tells of the USS Indianapolis, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in World War II, which lost three-quarters of her crew, many to shark attacks.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2021
Forced by poverty to retreat to the Maine woods, a spirited young girl comes into her own
In ‘Echo Mountain,’ the remarkable Ellie gains new skills and undertanding.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2021
For a mother forced to give up her child, decades of grief, shame and secrets
Though ‘American Baby’ chronicles a forced adoption in the 1960s, the tale resonates with the news of the many migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2021
A 19th-century Portland newspaper an early advocate for a vegetarian diet
‘The Pleasure Boat” also supported abolition, women’s rights and temperance. Its founder, Jeremiah Hacker, said he lived in a ‘plain simple manner from necessity, choice, and principle.’
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2021
Landscape with native wild edibles
Humans get something to eat and attractive plants for their yard. Wildlife gets a share of the food, plus comfortable places to live and breed.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2021
Homefront: The sandwich is from Denmark, the ingredients from Maine
“In the Phelan household, we’re surviving the winter/pandemic by reliving great food we tasted during past family vacations. Last year we went to Copenhagen and fell in love with Smorrebrod. Our recipe is Wheat Boule from Rosemont (market), Scratch’s cream cheese, smoked salmon, dill, capers and our own pickled red onions.” — KEVIN PHELAN, Cape […]
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2021
Rice makes the world go round, but at high environmental cost
Researchers are working on projects all over the globe to figure out how to grow it more sustainably and equitably.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2021
Boozy hot chocolate recaptures the magic of a childhood snow day with a grown-up twist
It’s perfect for Valentines (among other cold winter days).
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