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Food
For Maine Restaurant Week, pick a dining or driving destination and go out
There are more than 70 restaurants statewide offering deals during the event, which starts Friday and runs through March 12.
This skillet shrimp and white beans is a flexible weeknight meal
Consider this speedy shrimp dish your new phone-a-friend for harried weeknight mealtime.
As downtown Portland sees fewer office workers, lunch businesses feel a bite
Remote and hybrid work options have contributed to more sporadic weekday foot traffic in the heart of the city. That’s made things even harder than usual for the small businesses who used to rely on both regulars and passersby.
Add this skillet orzo with chicken to your weeknight dinner playbook
A combination of tastes is an easy way to add excitement to a dish, in this case with tangy goat cheese and sweet raisins.
Snowstorm scrounging inspired this powerful mushroom soup
Mushroom, bean and couscous soup leans on pantry staples, particularly an umami-packed mushroom powder.
Wine industry’s diversity efforts see successes – and some lost steam
Successes have included investments in Black-owned brands and mentoring and fellowship programs, but some worry that ‘it’s back to business as usual.’
These peanut butter-chocolate cookies are simply irresistible
Without any flour or refined sugar, these better-for-you cookies are naturally gluten-free.
This split pea soup is full of memories
My mother never wrote down her recipe, but this comforting soup has her fingerprints all over it.
For a comforting vegetarian meal, bake farro instead of boiling it
This one-pot baked farro with tomatoes and kale is cheesy and substantial.