Cooking With the Abundance of Maine

The harvest of Maine’s farms, as presented in “The Maine Farm Table Cookbook,” is not dramatically different from that of many other states. (Consider a recipe for corn pancakes.) But then there’s Maine’s distinctive abundance of seafood and a trove of recipes: lush grilled halibut with spiced butter sauce and snow peas, and lobster rolls…

A Macaroon Crossed With a Mounds Bar

Take the typical chocolate-covered coconut macaroon, a Passover treat, and cross it with a venerable Mounds bar and you have this hybrid, called Maccs. A New York entrepreneur, Michelle A. Goldberg, developed and refined them just before the pandemic hit. Robed in white, milk and dark Belgian chocolate, the bite-size pieces feature fillings like orange…

New Charcuterie Straight From Olympia Provisions

Olympia Provisions in Portland, Ore., a company that specializes in European-style charcuterie, has started spinning out a new salami collection, called Farmers Network, using meat from small family farms in Oregon. Their first release is Rosette d’Oregon, based on the classic dry French sausage called Rosette de Lyon and made with pasture-raised heritage pork, Willamette…

Taking Back Appalachian Forests, One Bee at a Time

To replenish the rolling hills and once thickly forested woods of the Appalachian region after mines scraped them bare before shutting down takes time, effort and money. The Appalachian Beekeeping Collective is part of it. Kate Asquith, the director of programs for its parent organization, Appalachian Headwaters, a nonprofit founded in 2016 and dedicated to…

Picnic Boxes That Support Refugees

Eat Offbeat, an organization that employs mainly refugee cooks for catering, is now offering a couple of picnic boxes: one with Syrian food and the other, vegan, with a mix of items from the Middle East and Asia. The kits, which come in a cooler bag, include ingredients for stuffing pita pockets with chicken or…

Is Jeff Bezos Really an Astronaut?

About six years ago, Michael López-Alegría, then president of the association’s United States chapter, and Andrew Turnage, the group’s executive director, started discussing the idea of such pins. NASA has given pins to its astronauts since the earliest days of the space program “But none of the other agencies have anything like that,” Mr. López-Alegría…