MEXICO — Regional School Unit 10 nutrition director Jeanne LaPointe told directors Monday evening that the district provides meals and after-school snacks with funds from the National School Lunch Program. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Services to help fight hunger and to provide low-cost healthy meals to […]
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Dunkin Donuts trims its menu items by 10 percent
CANTON, Mass. (AP) — So long strawberry banana smoothie. Goodbye steak and egg breakfast sandwich. Dunkin’ Donuts is cutting back on its food and drink offerings. The Boston Herald reports the new, simplified menu is expected to roll out in New England locations starting Monday before expanding nationwide in mid-March. The Canton, Massachusetts-based company founded […]
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Tasting the world at Mexico library
MEXICO — Participants in Mexico Public Library’s Taste the World monthly event experienced foods such as dill pickle-flavored chips from Germany, panettone bread with chocolate chips from Italy and Yugwa candy from Korea on Friday. Director Heather Rogers started the monthly program in August with food from Colombia. Since then, patrons have experienced treats from […]
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Tourtiere: ‘There is no Christmas without pork pie’
SANFORD — When Lucille Dutile Masure and her classmates from the St. Ignatius High School Class of 1952 get together for their monthly lunch in December, the conversation inevitably swings to holiday preparations. They talk about the presents they’re giving, the places they’re traveling and, of course, the tourtiere they’ll be baking. “There is no […]
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The Franco Center's Holiday Pie Event
The center’s Chef John will be offering 47 different pies for the holiday. Things are sometimes said to be “as American as apple pie.” But while America and apple pie may go together, according to the American Pie Council, pies have been in existence since the time of the ancient Egyptians. The Romans were allegedly […]
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Buddy T's set to reopen Dec. 8
Restaurant owner Buddy Taylor and general manager Gail Cailler announce the reopening of Buddy T’s Restaurant and Pub at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 8. They were forced to close after an electrical fire in the kitchen on Sept. 21. They have replaced the hood and walk-in freezer in their kitchen and have installed a 26-foot […]
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Going bananas in Lewiston-Auburn
Osman Issack and his friend Bhaird carry a case of bananas from a Good Shepherd Food Bank banana giveaway at Kennedy Park in Lewiston on Tuesday morning. A local distribution center donated over 21,000 pounds of bananas to the Auburn-based food bank and rather than risk them all going bad, the organization got the word […]
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LGBT community chews out Holy Donuts for holiday charity promotion
Portland doughnut shop The Holy Donut has drawn a backlash for a holiday promotion that intended to provide gifts, including warm winter clothes, to children in need. The doughnut shop announced its plan on Facebook. Users did not take kindly to the fact that The Holy Donut partnered with The Salvation Army to find a […]
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Whine with dinner? How to complain in a restaurant
You order the shrimp gumbo in one of your favorite restaurants, and when it arrives you spy one lonely, forlorn shrimp floating in the stew. Do you speak up, or swallow your frustration and dig in? The steak you ordered medium-rare arrives, and the meat is so red you joke that you can still hear […]
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Bates students present restaurant research for Somali Bantu farmers
LEWISTON — If all goes well, Lewiston will be home to a new Somali Bantu farm-to-table restaurant, which will provide traditional food from Somalia made with fresh and locally sourced ingredients. A Bates College anthropology class has been working with two local nonprofit groups to research the viability of a farm-to-table Somali Bantu restaurant […]