Posts Tagged Food and Foodies
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Living In Portland
Meet Your Farmers
September 12, 2012 / / Lately my wife and I have been enjoying a sublime sandwich for our lunches (and occasional dinners): sourdough bread, spread generously with mayonnaise, and filled with fresh lettuce and a whole sliced tomato from the Portland Farmers Market. The market's food offerings are near their fullest for the next few weeks: there are still lots of summer-season crops like cucumbers, tomatoes, salad greens, and a few peaches, but there are also bushels of fall crops coming in, including squashes, broccoli, and apples (if you're visiting from out of town, you'll find the market on Wednesdays in Monument Square 'till 2 pm and on Saturdays in Deering Oaks Park until noon).
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Working in Portland
Good things brewing in an old scrap yard (part 2)
August 31, 2012 / / Last week I wrote about Tandem Coffee Roasters, the new coffee shop located in a beautifully refurbished art-deco scrap yard building in East Bayside. This week, I'd like to introduce you to their next-door neighbors at Bunker Brewing, which has been making craft beer in the former scrap yard's other building since late last year.
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Living In Portland
Good things brewing in an old scrap yard (part 1)
August 23, 2012 / / Wedged between I-295 and the bottom of Munjoy Hill on the northern tip of the Portland peninsula is the East Bayside industrial area, a triangle-shaped district of warehouses and contractors' shops. There's lots of workspace available there, and it's still relatively cheap, which means it's attracting a growing number of small businesses run by young entrepreneurs.
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Living In Portland
Growing Season: Food + Farms and the Fermentory that is Portland
April 17, 2012 / / A mild winter and warm spring means that the city's fruit trees are blossoming, and the farmers on the outskirts of the city have been hard at work preparing seedlings in their greenhouses. In two more weekends, the indoor farmer's market will close for the season.
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The Arts
Five Portland Artists Install a Shared Sensibility at Gallery in Brunswick
March 30, 2012 / In the fracus of First Friday it's easy to lose sight of what artists in Portland, and creatives in Maine in general, have in common. We talk about authenticity, respect for materials, an awareness of time and the craft of making as attributes of the Maine brand that Portland's creative economy embodies.
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Working in Portland
Are Corporations People? Not in the City of Portland, Maine!
February 3, 2012 / Two weeks ago, environmental activist, author and founder of 350. org, Bill McKibben, came to the Portland US District courthouse to join a midday demonstration "marking the two-year anniversary of the Citizens United v.
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Living In Portland
Portland Bakeries: An Embarrassment of Breads (and Bagels, Pies, Cakes...)
January 18, 2012 / / Were there bakeries in Portland before Standard Baking opened its doors in 1995? Of course there were, but it feels like Standard has, well, set the standard for a constantly expanding class of artisan bakers throughout town. (Creative Portland's Andy Graham remembers the bread when he arrived in the 70s was, in fact, being pretty dismal.
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Living In Portland
Happy New Year from the City of Piers!
December 29, 2011 / / Much of what makes Portland such a cool city derives from the first half of our name. We are a port, perched on the Atlantic Ocean.