Hearty and heartwarming Soup for the Soul, a free luncheon featuring hearty soup, will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Fridays from Jan. 10 through March 27 at the United Baptist Church of Ellsworth, located at the corner of Hancock and Pine streets in Ellsworth. Luncheon-goers can enter via the church’s door …
Every year in January we have an artistic project here on Deer Isle known as Fun-A-Day. The premise is simple: participants pick a project like take a photograph, paint a series of pictures, create a quilt, or bake a cake and work on it every day. Then in February, we share our work with the …
At age 31, with energy to burn and publication of a third cookbook under her apron, Miriam Pascal wants to make it easier for you to feed your family. Mesorah Publications has just released Pascal’s “More Real Life Kosher Cooking: Delicious Recipes that Create a Lifetime of Culinary Memories,” as a follow- up to the …
I’ve never understood strawberry rhubarb pie. It’s considered a classic recipe, but most true classics follow the old gardening calendar, using fruits and vegetables in season. They go back before the days of freezers and diesel trucks. Strawberries and rhubarb taste fine together but in the garden, they are not precisely bedfellows. Rhubarb’s main claim …
HANCOCK — Nothing spells love and appreciation like a home-cooked gift from your kitchen. Especially if that gift entails doughnuts. Jeri Bowers knows this well. During the Christmas season, Bowers rises early to make homemade doughnuts for the staff at the MDI Biological Laboratory in the Bar Harbor village of Salisbury Cove where she works …
The year 2020 is big for Maine, as we’ll be celebrating our 200th birthday year as an independent state (no longer part of Massachusetts!). Even though we know the indigenous peoples of Maine have been here for thousands of years, this opportunity to explore more “recent” Maine history and learn about how Maine became a …
In coastal New England, shell heaps show where native people found estuaries rich in oysters. The bivalve mollusks were popular with the early colonists as well. Thanks to expansion of the railroads in the 1840s, pickled oysters could easily be shipped inland and by mid-century had become a widespread food fad. New Englanders ate oysters …
Inside America’s Test Kitchen A test cook at America’s Best Kitchen in Brookline, Mass., Orono native Afton Cyrus will return to the Blue Hill Public Library and talk about her job creating recipes for the TV show, cookbooks and Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 27, in …
GOULDSBORO — Growing up, Anne Hopper couldn’t count on her mother for a recipe for coot strew. The white-billed water fowl got a bad rap because of the noise it makes and alleged terrible taste. “She wouldn’t make it,” said Hopper whose late mother was Catherine Jacobs Boyd. “She wouldn’t allow it to be cooked …
Sweet stroll Dozens of parishioners have been baking full bore for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ellsworth’s sixth holiday cookie walk on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at 121 Bucksport Road in Ellsworth. Cookies of all stripes, celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah or the winter solstice, will be on offer. Gluten-free sweets will be …
Maine Dish At a recent Deer Isle potluck supper, I enjoyed the most delicious stuffed mushroom caps. They were golden, bite-sized morsels, perfectly cooked, with a nice and buttery, garlicy and clam flavor. And so easy to eat! Unlike many stuffed caps, these mushrooms were not greasy, watery or runny. The tasty tidbits were the …
ELLSWORTH — For years, Ryan Bates purchased food from a local farm. When that farm shut down, it left him with an important question. “I wanted to know where my food came from,” he said. To answer that question, he got directly involved, starting Acadia Provisions in December of 2017. The store carries a wide …
