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Eats: Hold on to summer with these fruit soups
These three examples of fruit soup offer a welcome, and decidedly different, addition to dinner. (Karen Schneider photo) Cold soups are the perfect beginning or ending to those sweet September picnics, barbecues, fancy company dinners on the deck, or just when you’ve become Desperate for Something Different. Recently, I made three fruit soups in my […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Ed Reilly, who taught for over 30 years at St. Joseph’s College in Windham. A COW’S TONGUE By Ed Reilly A cow’s tongue is like sandpaper on a hand, scraping across it to draw a fist of oats, kernels of corn, into its mouth. […]
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Maine Open Lighthouse Day shines a light on marine history
From 900 feet away on shore, you can’t appreciate the bell made by an apprentice of Paul Revere. Or the bulky electric fog horns nicknamed R2D2 (squint and there’s a slight resemblance). Or the cool, round, lighthouse keepers’ bedrooms. Or the hole in the deck for the former outhouse — long defunct but wild to […]
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Mexico's delicacy is my childhood monster
I’m about to confront my darkest demon, and it looks just like a plate of delicious corn risotto. On the surface, there wouldn’t seem to be a problem. I love corn. I love rice. I love cheese. But also on the surface, quite literally, are little gray dots. The server explains that they’re made from […]
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Mystery Photo for August 26
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week we feature two haikus from Raymond Bouffard (Pilgrim) of Gorham. Solitude 2 Silence so profound The wings of raptors were heard As we stood in awe. The Black Visitor So lightly he lands On the pine’s snow-covered branch. Nothing falls away. Dennis Camire can […]
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Stable helps rider rein in his troubles with horses
‘Deadwood’-primed writer finds Deepwood Farm horseback ride may spur the healing.
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Serving up a dynamite sandwich in Madison, Maine
Madison’s Dynamite sandwich is considered the bomb in these parts, but was it really born in Rhode Island? Don’t even try. Steve DeSanctis isn’t about to give up his family’s secret recipe for the Dynamite, a sandwich known to only two communities on the planet. One of those is his hometown of Madison, Maine, population […]
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In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by former Portland poet laureate, Marcia Brown, of Cape Elizabeth. Fish By Marcia Brown End of summer languor has set in. Lowering sun quickens the gilded evenings we have loved. One last social down the beach plants wine glasses in our hands. We stand […]