Category: People

Well known Maine food blogger Joe Ricchio is launching Food Coma TV, a video extension of his popular blog Portland Food Coma. Funding for the venture is being crowdsourced and so far has gathered pledges totaling $5,397 which is just $1,100 shy of the goal. You can see a brief video of Joe talking about the project and make a pledge for Food Coma TV page on Kickstarter.com.

For more information listen to the interview by Joe and his producer Alex Steed on the Maine Culinary Podcast, read about FC TV in the Bangor Daily News, or watch an interview with the pair on the Fox morning show.

For the latest episode of the Maine Culinary Podcast, host Dan Bodoff interviewed Joe Ricchio and business partner Alex Steed about their new project, Food Coma TV.

For the 2nd year in a row Coffee by Design’s head coffee roaster, Dylan Hardman, took first place at the national Roasters Guild Retreat. According to the press release,

The Tri-Style Roast Challenge, which placed nearly 100 roasters from across the country on teams, tested roasters on their coffee capabilities through three tests: roast for a pour-over filter preparation; roast for a press-pot preparation; and roast to match a sample score.

Hardman’s team, which included members from Seattle, Texas, and Oregon, received the highest score for the pour-over filter preparation and the highest overall score.

Maine Ahead has published an interview with Dan Sriprasert, chef and co-owner of Green Elephant.

Where you studied and/or apprenticed: My formal education was in computer engineering (Thailand) and graphic design (Seattle). Everything I know about cooking comes from my family and from lifelong, hands-on experience.

When you realized you really were a chef: When I opened my own restaurant. It was then that I realized “I’m doing this!” and that it wasn’t a hobby anymore.

Chef Shannon Bard was on the Fox morning show last Friday to talk about Zapoteca and demonstrate how she makes the restaurant’s Lobster Ceviche.

Earlier this week the Press Herald published an interview with Rick Micucci from Micucci Grocery.

Q: What are your earliest remembrances of the store?
A: I grew up here. My three brothers, two sisters and I played here as children. And, I’ve been working here full time since high school. When we got our driver’s licenses, we helped our father make deliveries to customers. My father was always looking for good deals on quality food. I remember times when he’d buy an entire (train) rail car full of canned tomatoes. He’d ask my brothers and I to grab a few of our friends and unload the freight car into a truck and haul it back to the store. Sometimes it would take us two days to finish the job.