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Elda
Grilled veal with braised endive and pear vinegar; oyster topped with grapefruit ice; Jonah crab with soft-scrambled eggs and roasted carrots; chef Bowman Brown developing big flavors in his open...
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Sam Morse’s Favorite Place
Sam Morse Sheer Boom Trail, Sugarloaf You might say downhiller Sam Morse’s path to the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team began with divine intervention. In 1990, the Sugarloaf Area Christian Ministry was...
View ArticleThe Maine Flower Show
The 2019 Maine Flower Show is one of the biggest gardening and horticultural shows in the region, where landscapers, exhibitors, designers, and horticulturists come together in one anticipated annual...
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Maine Dispatches
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine Madawaska Therese Michaud, a Catholic nun, celebrated her 79th anniversary as a member of the Daughters of Wisdom with a...
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Breakfast in a Can
Lone Pine Brewing’s Maple Sunday is available this month only. By Joel Crabtree Two years ago, Lone Pine founders Tom Madden and John Paul made their first batch of a maple brown ale in honor of Maine...
View ArticleNew England Sour
New England Distilling founder Ned Wight takes a classic cocktail recipe — the New York Sour — and subs in Saison whiskey for the classic rye, to create yeasty, floral notes. 2 ounces New England...
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April 2019
Editor’s Note by Sam Sifton Expand To Read My grandparents lived on Bailey Island, in a house on top of a hill that led down through a wood filled with lady slippers to the old steamboat wharf in...
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Our Favorite Letter(s)
OUR FAVORITE LETTER(S)Where in Maine? February 2019 Wood Island LighthousePhotograph by Benjamin Williamson Each month, Down East editors select our favorite responses to “Where in Maine?” Here are our...
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Lobster 101
SPONSORED CONTENTLobster 101Anyone searching for the quintessential taste of Maine need look no further than lobster. For centuries, Homarus americanus has been satisfying appetites and sustaining...
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Where in Maine
Can you name this coastal town? Judging from the name of the spruce-studded island just offshore, it’s fair to assume the tidal waters shown here once hosted a fish trap. It may have supplied food or...
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Free the Udders!
A year-and-a-half ago, Maine’s landmark food-sovereignty law empowered towns to regulate their own dairy/pickle/poultry trade. So how is it changing the way farming communities do business? By...
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The Long Haul
After more than nine decades on the water, World War II veteran and Maine-art-lore inheritor John Olson can’t stop trapping lobsters. By Suzanne Rico Photographs by Chris Bennett Cushing lobsterman...
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Out of Saison
Click Here for distiller Ned Wight’s New England Sour cocktail recipe — lemon, egg white, red wine, and Saison whiskey. New England Distilling takes Allagash beer and turns it into whiskey. When Ned...
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An Island Supper
An Island SupperOn a woodstove in an off-the-grid island cabin, our Maine Food Issue guest editor, Sam Sifton, prepares rustic, unhurried meals that feel close to the land and sea — and a world away...
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Maine Dispatches
Opinions, advisories, and musings from the length and breadth of Maine Madawaska Therese Michaud, a Catholic nun, celebrated her 79th anniversary as a member of the Daughters of Wisdom with a...
View ArticleMeal Tickets
Who says you can’t bring food into the museum? Three food-adjacent exhibits not to miss this spring. The Tropics Next Door: A Look at Maine and the Caribbean How Maine’s historical trade in molasses...
View ArticleSlippery Business
A changing climate means changing fisheries, and if we have smart young people thinking about farming oysters or clams, or developing a bay scallop industry, or growing amazing eel for the sushi trade,...
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Sprig Woodwork
By Virginia M. Wright Photographs by Nicole Wolf “This is your inheritance,” cabinetmaker Roy Slamm sometimes teased his daughters when they visited his woodworking shop, near their childhood home in...
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The Future of Maine’s Restaurants is Female
NineON THE LINEThough restaurant-kitchen culture is still dominated by men, women chefs have a refreshingly outsize presence in Maine. We gathered a few of the state’s best chefs to talk about why....
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