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Crash Barry, The Garlic Man

| Posted in Farming

Columnist Crash Barry has penned a feature article for the new issue of The Bollard about working at Nezinscot Farm, a biodynamic farm in Turner, Maine.

Raw garlic oil, alive and intense, overwhelmed my taste buds, scorching my tongue and the insides of both cheeks with a Jalapeno heat. I chewed the clove a couple more times, gulped and swallowed. I felt an electric charge pulse from my brain to my toes, from stomach to fingertips. My body radiated a throbbing, rhythmic energy that moments before had been buried beneath the fertile soil of the Nezinscot Farm, atop a hill overlooking a river in the western Maine town of Turner.

Review of Po'Boys & Pickles and Readers' Poll Results

| Posted in Reviews

Po’Boys & Pickles received 4 stars from the Taste & Tell review in today’s Maine Sunday Telegram.

Fried oyster salad ($8.50) is a surefire solution to the perpetual hunger for fried oysters. Set on top of a salad of pickled green beans, sliced cucumber, grape tomatoes and mesclun in a mustardy vinaigrette with dollops of remoulade, the oysters are juicy and perfect, encapsulated in thin, golden crunch.

The Maine Sunday Telegram also published the results of their 24th Annual Readers’ Poll today.

We culled all this from our 24th Annual Audience Readers’ Poll. It’s long been a trusty gauge of what Mainers like best in the areas of fun, food and frolic. But this year, it was revamped with a focus on summer.

Review of Po’Boys & Pickles and Readers’ Poll Results

| Posted in Reviews

Po’Boys & Pickles received 4 stars from the Taste & Tell review in today’s Maine Sunday Telegram.

Fried oyster salad ($8.50) is a surefire solution to the perpetual hunger for fried oysters. Set on top of a salad of pickled green beans, sliced cucumber, grape tomatoes and mesclun in a mustardy vinaigrette with dollops of remoulade, the oysters are juicy and perfect, encapsulated in thin, golden crunch.

The Maine Sunday Telegram also published the results of their 24th Annual Readers’ Poll today.

We culled all this from our 24th Annual Audience Readers’ Poll. It’s long been a trusty gauge of what Mainers like best in the areas of fun, food and frolic. But this year, it was revamped with a focus on summer.

Review of Sabieng

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Diet for a Small City has published a review of Sabieng.

It turned out to be worth the wait.  The crunchy Pad Thai was outstanding: the combination of thin rice noodles with the crunchy egg noodles and chopped green onions brought the dish a dynamic and satisfying texture.  The spicing was virtually perfect: tangy, sweet, and spicy.  I forced a small forkful upon each of my friends so that they, too, could bear witness to the enchanting balance of flavors and textures.  “I should have ordered that,” was what more than one person said.

Doughnut Photos & National Doughnut Day

| Posted in Events

PortlandTown has published photos of the doughnut making process at The French Press Eatery in honor of today as National Doughnut Day. According to Wikipedia, the annual doughnut event was “created by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the women who served donuts to soldiers during World War I”

When I mentioned to the boys that tomorrow was the big day, they were surprised that they didn’t know of the (should be) national holiday, but quick on their feet in deciding to make a special donut for the day. Thus is born the “Team USA Donut”.  Resplendent in red, white and blue.

Photo Credit: Michael Barriault

Doughnut Photos & National Doughnut Day

| Posted in Events

PortlandTown has published photos of the doughnut making process at The French Press Eatery in honor of today as National Doughnut Day. According to Wikipedia, the annual doughnut event was “created by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the women who served donuts to soldiers during World War I”

When I mentioned to the boys that tomorrow was the big day, they were surprised that they didn’t know of the (should be) national holiday, but quick on their feet in deciding to make a special donut for the day. Thus is born the “Team USA Donut”.  Resplendent in red, white and blue.

Photo Credit: Michael Barriault

Cookie Jar was Jammed

| Posted in Openings

The new issue of The Forecaster has a report on last weekend’s (re)opening of The Cookie Jar in Cape Elizabeth.

Donna Piscopo said there was a line of customers waiting when the doors opened at 6 a.m. She said they planned to close at 6 p.m., but were unable to lock up until 8:45 p.m. in order to serve everyone.

“People were literally jumping up and down when they came in,” she said. “It is overwhelming, but wonderful and exciting at the same time.”

Three Days in the Sun

| Posted in Under Construction, Profiles, Farming

There have been several food articles in the Portland Daily Sun this week. On Tuesday the newspaper reported on the collaboration between Sparrow Arc Farm and Bar Lola on a CSA for the central Maine farm in Portland,

This means the impending CSA will include a wide, eclectic sampling of the 300 varieties of veggies grown at Sparrow Arc, including heirloom tomatoes and cornichons, a type of baby pickling cucumber. “We will be able to offer a really mind blowing amount of veggies to our CSA,” said Linehan.

on Wednesday there was a profile/history of Micucci’s.

Miccucci Grocery Company launched in 1949 and was located in the trunk of Leo and Iris Micucci’s car. Licensing and the official launch came a couple of years later in 1951 so the family splits the difference and says the company began in 1950. From Middle Street to Commercial then to its current home, Leo and Iris moved the location but kept the name.

and on Thursday there was a report on the soon-to-open Bayside Bowl,

A draft menu offered a promise of relatively high-end food for $15 and less. Bayside Bowl plans to serve Focaccioa bread pizzas, mini chicken chimichangas, veggie stir fry, garden burgers as well as traditional hamburgers and cheeseburgers, crab and lobster cake dinners, reuben sandwiches, fish, grilled rib eye, roasted lemon chicken, cocoanut curry chicken poppers, grilled wings, fries, hush puppies, and a variety of kids’ dishes and desserts.

Reviews of Simple Sandwich & Armory Lounge

| Posted in Reviews

Simple Sandwich received 3½ stars from the Eat & Run column in today’s Press Herald,

Overall, Simple Sandwich is a nice addition to the Old Port lunch scene. And here’s hoping that, unlike other late-night eateries in Portland, it will last long enough to satisfy plenty of nighttime cravings for good eats.

and the Armory Lounge was reviewed in the paper’s Portland Bar Guide column.