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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 December 8, 2011
Seeking a gift for the person who has everything? Why not give a Maine gift that gives back and supports the state’s natural beauty by adopting a whale or a puffin or a snowy egret in his or her name. You can adopt a whale through College of the Atlantic-affiliated Allied Whale. Choose from 11 [...]
Posted in Activities, Maine Made, Shopping | Tagged adopt a snowy egret, Adopt a whale, Adopt-a-puffin, allied whale, Maine Audubon, Puffin Project |
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 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 October 10, 2011
Maine’s Blue Hill Peninsula exudes the essence of what what many people picture when they dream about the Maine coast. It’s off the beaten track, a rolling landscape carved in granite, fringed with spruce, splashed with ponds, sprinkled with galleries, salted with farmsteads, and peppered with those classic big house-little house-back house-barn houses that art [...]
Posted in Activities, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Maine Made, Moon guidebook updates, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged bagaduce forge, Bagaduce Lunch, bakeries, bets's sunflower, blossom studio, Blue Hill Peninsula, Brooklin, brooklin inn, Brooksville, buck's harbor market, bucks restaurant, Eggemoggin Textile STudio, fourseason farm, galleries, good life center, Handmade papers, Hiram Blake Camps, holbrook island sanctuary, mainehooked rugs, Mermaid woolens, Oakland House, paul heroux, Puschart Press Bookstore, Reach Road Gallery, restaurants, scott goldberg, sedgewick antiques, Sedgwick, sow's ear winery, the cave, tinder hearth bakery, Wooden Boat |
By Hilary Nangle on August 6, 2011
Talk about perfect timing: A review copy of Notes from a Maine Kitchen: Seasonally Inspired Recipes, by Kathy Gunst, arrived in the mail at the same time my local produce stand was brimming with possibilities. Experiencing Maine is as much about plate as it is about place. The state has developed a national reputation for [...]
Posted in Food, Maine Made, Recipes | Tagged cookbook review, corn, Kathy Gunst, lobster, maple syrup, Notes from a Maine Kitchen, recipes |
By Hilary Nangle on July 21, 2011
We’re looking at a few days of scorching heat, at least by Maine standards. Keep that in mind: It IS worse elsewhere. And many of those those other places aren’t rich with nature’s natural coolers: mountains, lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, and miles upon miles of oceanfront. 1. Hit the beach Hint: If you’re going to [...]
Posted in Activities, Boating, Food, Maine Made, Sightseeing | Tagged beaches, boat trips, Ice cream, islands, museums, rafting, watervalls |
By Hilary Nangle on July 4, 2011
What’s green, then blue, then red, then black all over? A Maine wild blueberry field through the seasons. Author Virginia M. Wright spills the berries about this delectable fruit in The Wild Blueberry Book. (Down East Books). Sure, the whoopie pie may have been selected Maine’s official treat, but it’s the wild blueberry pie that’s [...]
Posted in Food, Maine Made, Recipes, Resources | Tagged lobster and blueberries, Maine wild blueberries, recipes, The Maine Wild Blueberry Book |
By Hilary Nangle on May 12, 2011
Singer/songwriter Dave Mallett, a Maine icon; the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, with Grammy Award-winning maestro Lucas Richman; R&B/Soul singer Leah Tysse; fiddle legend and MPBN host Frank Ferrel; and the Acadian band Boreal Tordu are just a few of the performers who’ll be taking to the stage at the ninth annual Kingfield POPS concert, June 25, [...]
Posted in Activities, Entertainment, Events, Maine Made, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go |
By Hilary Nangle on April 29, 2011
I asked Chef Mitchell Kaldrovich, of the Sea Glass dining room at the Inn by the Sea, in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, to share a recipe for one of Maine’s favorite spring delicacies, fiddleheads. “I am very excited to have our forager bring us fiddleheads next week. You have to treat them lightly so they retain [...]
Posted in Deals, Food, Greater Portland, Maine Made, Recipes, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Cape Elizabeth, Chef Mitchell Kaldrovich, fiddleheads, Inn by the Sea, Sea Glass restaurant |
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