This Week’s Events

Monday — the Monday Farmers Market is taking place in Monument Square.

Wednesday — the midweek Farmers Market is taking place in Monument Square and there will be a wine tasting at RSVP.

Thursday — Jerry Knecht from North Atlantic Seafood will give a lecture titled The Meaning of Sustainable: Seafood Business for the 21st Century as part of the GMRI Sea State 5.0 lecture series.

Friday — a tasting of Portuguese wines is taking place at Rosemont on Congress Street.

Saturday — the Bayside World Market and Fair; the weekend Farmers Market is taking place in Deering Oaks Park; a tasting of Portuguese wines is taking place at Rosemont on Brighton.

Sunday — the 37th Annual Old Port Festival; a group of Portland chefs will be at Rippling Waters Farm for the The Gourmet Garden Crawl.

For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.

If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.

Doughnut Photos & National Doughnut Day

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

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

This Week's Events

Monday — the new Monday Farmers Market is taking place in Monument Square.
Wednesday — the midweek Farmers Market is taking place in Monument Square.
ThursdaySlow Food Portland is hosting an event at the Portland Museum of Art which will include the Objects of Wonder exhibit, local food and an address by food author and historian Nancy Harmon Jenkins; Grace is holding a wine dinner; Black Tie Bistro is teaching a cooking class.
Friday Wine Wise is holding their first wine education event; wine tastings are taking place a Scarborough Wine Outlet and the West End Deli; the grand opening of Local Sprouts/Bomb Diggity is scheduled to take place.
Saturday — the weekend Farmers Market is taking place in Deering Oaks Park; LeRoux Kitchen is holding a wine dinner.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.
If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.

This Week’s Events

Monday — the new Monday Farmers Market is taking place in Monument Square.

Wednesday — the midweek Farmers Market is taking place in Monument Square.

ThursdaySlow Food Portland is hosting an event at the Portland Museum of Art which will include the Objects of Wonder exhibit, local food and an address by food author and historian Nancy Harmon Jenkins; Grace is holding a wine dinner; Black Tie Bistro is teaching a cooking class.

Friday Wine Wise is holding their first wine education event; wine tastings are taking place a Scarborough Wine Outlet and the West End Deli; the grand opening of Local Sprouts/Bomb Diggity is scheduled to take place.

Saturday — the weekend Farmers Market is taking place in Deering Oaks Park; LeRoux Kitchen is holding a wine dinner.

For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.

If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.

Photos of the Bard Latte Art Competition


PortlandTown has published a set of photos he took at Thursday’s latte art competition at Bard Coffee. Anyone is welcome to participate in the monthly event. There are usually baristas from several coffee shops as well as an amateur or two in the mix. This month’s winner was Justin McEdward. I think the next competition will take place June 24. I’ll add it to the calendar as soon as I confirm the date.
Photo Credit: Michael Barriault

This Week's Events

Monday — the new Monday Farmers Market is taking place in Monument Square.
Tuesday — the next installment of the Food & Drink Trivia Competition is taking place at Grace.
Wednesday — the midweek Farmers Market is taking place in Monument Square; author Allison Hooper will be at the Public Market House for a cheese tasting and to sign copies of her book In a Cheesemaker’s Kitchen; Dr. John Herzog is giving a mid-day talk on The Power of Food; Old Port Wine Merchants is holding a Malbec wine tasting.
Thursday — Jen Levin, Sustainable Seafood Program Manager at GMRI, will give a lecture titled Creating Market Pull in the Gulf of Maine Region; Professor Shawn Michelle Smith will give a lecture on the historical Maine farm photographs of Chansonetta Stanley Emmons; Bard Coffee is hosting their monthly latte art competition; Browne Trading is holding a wine tasting; Black Cherry Provisions is holding a beer tasting; and staff from Redhook Ales will be at The Great Lost Bear for a brewery showcase.
Saturday — the weekend Farmers Market is taking place in Deering Oaks Park.
For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.
If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.

This Week’s Events

Monday — the new Monday Farmers Market is taking place in Monument Square.

Tuesday — the next installment of the Food & Drink Trivia Competition is taking place at Grace.

Wednesday — the midweek Farmers Market is taking place in Monument Square; author Allison Hooper will be at the Public Market House for a cheese tasting and to sign copies of her book In a Cheesemaker’s Kitchen; Dr. John Herzog is giving a mid-day talk on The Power of Food; Old Port Wine Merchants is holding a Malbec wine tasting.

Thursday — Jen Levin, Sustainable Seafood Program Manager at GMRI, will give a lecture titled Creating Market Pull in the Gulf of Maine Region; Professor Shawn Michelle Smith will give a lecture on the historical Maine farm photographs of Chansonetta Stanley Emmons; Bard Coffee is hosting their monthly latte art competition; Browne Trading is holding a wine tasting; Black Cherry Provisions is holding a beer tasting; and staff from Redhook Ales will be at The Great Lost Bear for a brewery showcase.

Saturday — the weekend Farmers Market is taking place in Deering Oaks Park.

For more information on these and other upcoming food happenings in the area, visit the event calendar.

If you are holding a food event this week that’s not listed above, publicize it by adding it as a comment to this post.

Frasier & Gaier plus Food+Farm

The Food & Dining section in today’s Press Herald includes a profile of Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier, winners of the 2010 Best Chef Northeast James Beard Award,

“I’m definitely really happy that they won,” said Melissa Kelly, chef/owner of Primo in Rockland and the 1999 winner of Best Chef in the Northeast. “I always nominate them. I think they deserve it. They really are icons in the business.”

and an overview of the Food+Farm program being put on this week by Space Gallery.

Now entering its third year, the popular film festival and local food celebration kicks off Thursday and runs through Sunday. It will showcase four feature-length documentaries, screen four Maine-produced shorts and offer a chance to get your hands dirty on an urban farm. But don’t expect to see films that rehash the big-picture problems with our industrial food system.