RSU 9 Director Andy Hutchins has continued to grow and improve the food program in the district, and hopes to expand more into locally grown food.
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Your Thanksgiving leftovers are good in the fridge up to 4 days; don’t let it go to waste
Don’t automatically assume a date label on food has to do with safety. (Also: Don’t forget to freeze your leftover stuffing and pie.)
With all the trimmings, too
After learning more about turkey and its significance to Thanksgiving, we took the time to learn more about some of the sides that come with the feast.
Holiday pies not all that Chef John Pulsifer’s got cooking
Does he make the best chocolate cream pie in the world? Don’t ask Pulsifer. This chef is about as unpretentious as they come.
New restaurant to replace Brunswick’s Little Dog Coffee Shop
Connor Scott and Lainey Catalino are opening The Abbey, which will serve coffee and breakfast sandwiches in the morning and craft cocktails and eclectic dishes like ash reshteh and noquerones for dinner.
Table to Farm? Local animals get a taste of local food
Several local businesses send food waste, or the by-product of the food they produce, back to the farm.
L.L. Bean Bootmobile meets Planters Nutmobile in corporate crossover
A 13.5-foot-tall boot and an 11.5-foot-tall peanut — both on wheels — met in the L.L. Bean employee parking lot Sunday. Instagram handles, honey-roasted peanuts and miniature L.L. Bean boot keychains were exchanged.
Bagel craze spreads through central Maine
Augusta-area residents’ appetite for the beloved ring-shape bread is growing. Two bagel shops have opened in the city in the last year, and another is set to open in Winthrop at the end of October.
Hard cider is having a renaissance, and it’s taken hold in Maine
Maine has twice as many producers as it did just four years ago, while cider sales have increased 10% in the past year.
Bugs: It’s what’s for dinner
Selling everywhere from online to giant Iowa truck stops, a Lewiston company is helping to change consumer tastes about crickets, mealworms, scorpions, ants and other crawling and flying edibles.