Anyone who’s hung around a golf course for long has noticed that for many players, drinking and golf go hand-in-hand. It’s not so different for the fast-growing sport of disc golf, which features competitors flinging plastic discs at distant targets, except for one thing: the course owners can’t get a license to serve alcohol regularly. […]
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Send a text, and Portland ice cream maker will deliver
PORTLAND — Salli Wason is serious about ice cream. So serious that she has launched a business, Rosanna’s Ice Cream, where she delivers pints of homemade, small-batch ice cream or ice cream cakes at the receipt of a text message. Wason will deliver any one of the ice cream flavors she has available within 15 […]
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Eats: Rails — Changes at Lewiston restaurant keep it right on track
New. That’s the vibe these days at Rails, the popular Lincoln Street eatery in Lewiston, as it begins its third year. New food. New drinks. New art and music. A new bar area. A recently added manager. And, technically, even a new owner. Ileshea Stowe, the restaurant’s director of operations and public relations from the […]
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Paris’ newest restaurant has an ‘X’ factor
PARIS — The “X” in X-Vault Pub & Provisions represents a number of things to owners Paul Cornish and Myung Kim, but notably gives them endless opportunities regarding menu options for South Paris’ newest restaurant. They held a soft opening this month for the business at 10 Market Square, site of the former Smiling Moose that […]
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Soda tops list of food stamp purchases, estimated $13 million a year in Maine
AUGUSTA — A new report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is revealing the items purchased by a typical family on food stamps. The report reveals the number one item bought by families on food stamps is soda; in Maine—that adds up to an estimated more than $13 million a year spent on soft […]
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Maine blueberries could be featured more in school lunches
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s famous wild blueberries might start turning up in school lunches more often in the future. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is giving the Wild Blueberry Commission of Maine $50,000 to perform a marketing initiative promoting the blueberries as a good school food. The commission says school sales of […]
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Six Questions for the CEO: Ted Morton, Mr. Vending Machine
Ted Morton founded Casco Bay Vending in Lewiston in 2008 with two employees and a vision. 1. What led to creating the company? My wife and I left Maine for the better part of a decade to enhance our respective careers. In 2008, we decided it was it time to move back to Maine to […]
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A winter warmer that’s creamy, without the cream
If there’s a walking, talking advertisement for the power of food to provide energy, it’s got to be Tess Masters. Anyone who has met her, seen her or read her work knows that the actor, cook and author behind the popular Blender Girl blog (and cookbook of the same name) is a whirlwind of positivity, […]
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With chickpeas around, who needs chickens?
Anything chicken can do, chickpeas can do better. At least I think so, but I am admittedly biased. I don’t know if it’s just the possibility for wordplay, but I am drawn to every recipe I have ever seen that uses the beans in place of the poultry in a classic, or at least well-known, […]
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Somerville, Mass. celebrating 100 years of Fluff
‘It stuck to the roof of my mouth,” said Luca Duclos-Orsello. He’s talking about when he was 11 years old and his mother, Elizabeth, smushed creamy Marshmallow Fluff and gooey peanut butter into his mouth, and he licked her fingers clean. He was laughing so hard he couldn’t talk, and the goo was so thick […]