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Showing posts with label maine. Show all posts
Monday, November 22, 2010
Blue Marble Donates Time to Maine GIS Educators Event
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Eating Well in Portland, Maine
Contributing editor Margaret Loftus takes us on a culinary tour of Portland, Maine.
I've been known to plan my day around where I might eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner when visiting the venerable food capitals of New York and Paris, but Portland, Maine? You bet.
The city's rise to culinary stardom has been chronicled in the food press, from the New York Times to Bon Appetit, who named it the "foodiest small town in America" last year. Lured from New York and other pricey cities by the relative cheap rents of the Old Port (the city's revitalized waterfront), a small army of top-notch chefs have set up shop here. Combined with an already intense locavore scene--if it grows here, there's a Mainer raising it--and a thriving food artisan community, from whoopie pie bakers to mead brewers, and you have all the makings of a gastronome utopia.
My last visit, in late October, coincided with the city's third annual Harvest on the Harbor, three days of cooking demonstrations, tastings, and exhibits that celebrate Maine's bounty and enormous pool of culinary talent (pictured, above). The high point of Harvest is undoubtedly the Lobster Chef of the Year competition (right), a sort of live lobster Iron Chef where the entire audience gets to taste and judge dishes presented by three finalists. This year's contest turned out to be a real nail-bitter--all three entries were knock-outs--but it was a young upstart, Chef Kelly Patrick Farrin from Azure Café in Freeport, who took the title with his herb grilled Maine lobster on arugula with chive ricotta gnocchi and corn milk.
Post originale: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/11/eating-well-in-portland-maine.html
I've been known to plan my day around where I might eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner when visiting the venerable food capitals of New York and Paris, but Portland, Maine? You bet.The city's rise to culinary stardom has been chronicled in the food press, from the New York Times to Bon Appetit, who named it the "foodiest small town in America" last year. Lured from New York and other pricey cities by the relative cheap rents of the Old Port (the city's revitalized waterfront), a small army of top-notch chefs have set up shop here. Combined with an already intense locavore scene--if it grows here, there's a Mainer raising it--and a thriving food artisan community, from whoopie pie bakers to mead brewers, and you have all the makings of a gastronome utopia.
My last visit, in late October, coincided with the city's third annual Harvest on the Harbor, three days of cooking demonstrations, tastings, and exhibits that celebrate Maine's bounty and enormous pool of culinary talent (pictured, above). The high point of Harvest is undoubtedly the Lobster Chef of the Year competition (right), a sort of live lobster Iron Chef where the entire audience gets to taste and judge dishes presented by three finalists. This year's contest turned out to be a real nail-bitter--all three entries were knock-outs--but it was a young upstart, Chef Kelly Patrick Farrin from Azure Café in Freeport, who took the title with his herb grilled Maine lobster on arugula with chive ricotta gnocchi and corn milk.
Post originale: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/11/eating-well-in-portland-maine.html
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