By Hilary Nangle on January 23, 2012
Everybody loves a deal, and I’ve got quite a few for you. Book today: TOO LATE, YOU MISSED IT, SORRY. $49 airfare from New York, NY, (JFK) Portland, Maine (PWM) on Jet Blue. The fare is good from Jan. 30 through April 3, 2012, which means it’s perfect for a skiing/snowboarding escape to Sugarloaf, Sunday [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Deals, Events, Food, Free Stuff, Greater Portland, Lodging, Mid-Coast, Penobscot Bay, Skiing/Riding, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged airfare, Black Mountain of Maine, Brunswick, Cape Elizabeth, dog-kissing, Free skiing, Habitat for Humanity promotion, Inn at Brunswick Station, Maine Restaurant Week, Planet Dog, Portland, Ruford |
By Hilary Nangle on January 11, 2012
Sunday River, in Newry, Maine, is launching a series of specialty Dining at the Peak dinners for 2012. These Saturday night events include guest chefs as well as wine and beer dinners. Seating is limited, so plan ahead. Here are the highlights so far: Jan. 14: A visit to Portland’s Vignola and Cinque Terre via [...]
Posted in Events, Food, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Dining at the Peak, Newry, Sunday River |
By Hilary Nangle on December 29, 2011
I’m kicking myself for not returning to Lily Bistro, in Rockland, Maine, sooner, Chefs/owners Rob and Lynette Krajewski won me over at first bite, when I dined there during there opening year, returning now and again as my schedule permitted for cassoulet or frites or any of the other classic French bistro fare on the [...]
Posted in Food, Moon guidebook updates, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Lily Bistro closed, Rockland |
By Hilary Nangle on December 15, 2011
Ployes! Pot en Pot! Tortierre! Creton! Raisin Pie! If you’ve ever had the good fortune to travel in Maine’s St. John Valley, you’re likely familiar with French-Acadian cuisine. Bouchard Family Farms, based in Fort Kent, Maine, has a new cookbook, French-Acadian Cookbook: Keeping the Tradition Alive ($12), that celebrates both the food and Maine’s Acadian [...]
Posted in Aroostook County, Food, Maine Made, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged cookbook reviewBouchard Family Farms, French-Acadian food, ployes, pot en pot, raisin pie, recipes, tortierre |
By Hilary Nangle on November 17, 2011
I spent the better part of the past five months noodling the highways and byways of Maine’s Acadia region researching a new edition of my Moon Acadia National Park book for spring 2012 publication. As I noodled, I nibbled, and I wanted to share some of the must-have Maine-made foods that left me craving more. [...]
Posted in Acadia, Food, Maine Made, Resources, Trip Planning | Tagged Bar Harbor, Black Dinah Chocolatiers, Blue Hill, Brooksville, buck's harbor market, Deer Isle, Ellsworth, Grindstone Neck of Maine, Isle au Haut, Lucy's Granola, Maine Needhams, Nervous Nellie's Jams and Jellies, Smith Family Farm, tinder hearth bakery, Winter Harbor |
By Hilary Nangle on November 9, 2011
Hungry for something new? Consider one of these special-event dinners in Maine. Nov. 11: Demonstration Wine Dinner at Five-0, Ogunquit No, Chef Walter isn’t demonstrating wine, he’s going to show how to make one of his signature dishes, and guests will have the opportunity to try new techniques. Complementing the show are wine and antipasti, [...]
Posted in Down East Coast, Events, Food, Penobscot Bay, Southern Coast/Beaches, Where to go | Tagged Black Dinah Chocolatiers, Camden, Camden Harbour Inn, Eagle Hill, Five-O, Natalies, Ogunquit, Steuben |
By Hilary Nangle on November 7, 2011
Chocolate-maker Dean Bingham, of Dean’sSweets, has found inspiration in the bar—the chocolate bar. The Portland, Maine, chocolatier has introduced three chocolate bars to his line of handmade truffles and caramels. Not just any chocolate bars, mind you, but three in intriguing flavors: Maine potato chip, brandied orange peel, and mocha latte. The brandied orange peel [...]
Posted in Food, Greater Portland, Maine Made, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged chocolate, DeansSweets, Fox Family potato chips |
By Hilary Nangle on November 5, 2011
Celebrate Maine craft brewing at Maine Beer Week, Nov. 10-17. The week-long brew-ha-ha features beer dinners, pairings, tastings, tours, meet-the-brewer nights, and more, all highlighting local brews. Participants include 27 Maine breweries; nearly 50 Maine restaurants, taverns, and brewpubs; and a handful of lodging sponsors. Many restaurants will be offering specially priced menus. Maine Beer [...]
Posted in Events, Food, Greater Portland, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Maine Highlands, Mid-Coast, Penobscot Bay, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Maine beer Week |
By Hilary Nangle on October 15, 2011
Life doesn’t get much sweeter than creating a successful gourmet chocolate business on a Maine island that’s home to a remote section of Acadia National Park, and that’s what Kate and Steve Shaffer have done with Black Dinah Chocolatiers on Isle au Haut. And now, Kate is sharing the secrets of her success, along with [...]
Posted in Acadia, Food, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Black Dinah Chocolatiers, Desserted: Recipes and Tales from an Island Chocolatier, Isle au Haut, Kate Shaffer, Steve Shaffer |
By Hilary Nangle on October 13, 2011
Portland, Maine’s, annual Harvest on the Harbor food and wine experience has become the culinary event in a state renowned for its locavore culture, in the town named “America’s Foodiest” by Bon Appetit. Since it’s inception in 2008, the October food-and-wine celebration has grown each year, fed by locals who seem to have an insatiable [...]
Posted in Events, Food, Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Harvest on the Harbor, Portland |
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