Stories and recipes from my Portland kitchen
I’ve created this blog to bring under one roof my food writing that has been published online and in print and new stories and recipes as I create them.
A bit about me: After living, working as a writer and filmmaker, and raising my son in Manhattan, I decided, with my new-ish husband Wayne, to move to Portland, Maine. A house, not an apartment. No doormen to hand me my packages; No guys outside snowblowing the sidewalk before my first dog-walk of the morning. Stairs. A back yard (grass continues to confound me.) A four minute walk to Casco Bay.
I miss my old friends I don’t miss the pace and stress of the City. I miss the Met Opera being a subway ride away. I don’t miss the subway itself. I miss cheap soup dumplings and roast duck lunches in Chinatown. But for the most part, restaurant for restaurant and source for source – any fears of “but-I’ll-never-find-it-in-Portland” were unfounded. We have excellent Asian and Indian markets, and a couple of world-class markets offering super-fresh, sustainably sourced fish and shellfish both local and flown in from West Coast, South America and Europe.
The food I gravitate toward — inspired by travel, reading, relationships, observation, and years of experimentation in the kitchen—is the food that people around the world eat with friends and family at home. None of my recipes requires special tools, sophisticated techniques, or make-it-or-break-it presentation.
If you have thoughts or suggestions, I’m all ears.
Carolyn
