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Maine Food at Your Fingertips: Down East Magazine Creates Food App
Live and eat in Maine or just love the state’s rich food culture? The Great Maine Food app, created for the iPad for Down East Magazine helps bring you and great local food together. The new app debuts with recipes, video tutorials, and menu planning for the Maine foodie, the foodie… Read More
Blueberry Harvest: Revisiting A Popular Post from 2010
It’s the height of the summer – an expectant time for those who live and work the communities of Down East Maineand Canadawhere wild blueberries are harvested. We posted this piece about the harvest season last year, and due to recent interest, we’re posting it again. All the exciting information… Read More
Saving Your Frozen for Processing? You’re Missing Out
A recap of the 2011 Berry Health Benefits Symposium includes some interesting data about those small nutritional gems we know as berries. All varieties were under discussion this year at this California symposium, including strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries, as participants piled on the evidence for the berry’s superfood status and the… Read More
Celebrate the Wild Blueberry!
Driving Home the Mystique of the Season Recently, the Huffington Post shared their “berry busting myths” in an effort to set straight those un-indoctrinated into the berry vocabulary. One of these myths concerns size: big berries are juicier. Of course, it’s part of the long-held fiction that bigger is better. And… Read More
Insider Scoop! Local Author Lisa Turner Shares Her Blueberry Buckle Recipe (And More!)
Wild About Health has traveled up and down the Maine coast recently, getting footage of local wild blueberry barrens and just enjoying the nooks and crannies of coastal and Down East Maine. In doing so, we’ve noticed a common thread when it comes to thinking about, talking about, and eating… Read More
Eating Local? If Not, Something’s Fishy
Photo by Jean-François Chénier Something fishy happened recently to a Wild About Health reader. On a quest to buy fish in the midcoast Maine area, he found swordfish from a local monger. It had just come in that day – from Uruguay. “Why am I buying fish from that far away… Read More
First Spring Look: Maine’s Wild Blueberry Barrens
A panoramic view of wild blueberry barrens near Meddybemps in Maine’s Washington County, taken today, March 24th. Over 60,000 acres of blueberry farmland stretch across Maine, providing an average 70 million pounds of berries each year. Photos courtesy of Geoffrey Leighton. Spring is officially here, and for fields being prepared for… Read More
TED2011 Conference Has a Berry Big Idea
You may know it as the gathering of the most innovative idea makers in the fields of technology, entertainment, design and beyond. It’s the widely celebrated TED conference, which this year lands in Long Beach for TED2011 and features the latest assembly of the world’s most compelling and notable thinkers,… Read More
Maine Mid-Winter Round Up
Restaurant Week, Chef Awards, Comfort Food, Local Eating & Maine Food Producers Why spend time in 2011 celebrating our state’s edible bounty? The answer is obvious. Between good food, talented chefs, indigenous food harvesters and innovative food producers, the state is rich with opportunities to enliven your plate and palate…. Read More
Infatuated with Food in Maine?
The Best Local Bloggers Help You Digest It All When it comes to food, Maine is an embarrassment of riches. – We enjoy indigenous foods, including fruits, vegetables, seafood, and local food products used by home cooks and local chefs alike. – Those who live in and around the “foodiest… Read More
