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If I had to combine as many French memories as I could into a dish, I’d prepare these apple-filled crêpes with real French apple brandy, or Calvados.

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Essential Nourishment is a book that is chock-a-block full of wholesome and visually appealing recipes as well as gorgeous photographs of food and European country scenery. Pretty soon, we will have plenty of these lamb’s quarters here in my gardens! B…

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Here is a recipe for drinking Fernet Branca the way “portenos” do (people of the port, as in the port of Buenos Aires).

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Immediately noted by me, an enthusiastic eater of regular meals, Argentina is a night culture and a café culture. Meals do not occur on an American schedule. The Argentine people eat four meals a day, which must be necessary for staying up half the ni…

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In Argentina, they have a style of cooking beef and other meats called Milanese. A dish prepared in the Milanese style is sometimes pounded and always breaded, something like a chicken fried steak or veal cutlet.

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Give the gift of Maine’s original food magazine, and make someone smile this holiday season!

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Sometimes called Alfajores Danubio, these cookies seem to be the national snack of Argentina and consist of a lemon or almond shortbread sandwich cookie nicely glued together with a generous dollop of Dulce de Leche, which is literally translated “milk…

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In the new issue of Maine Food & Lifestyle magazine, Andrew Zimmern, Travel Channel star of Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern, has many positive things to say about his adopted home state of Maine. Included in this article is a touching tribute to…

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We’re excited to report that the new issue of Maine Food & Lifestyle magazine prints this week! Issue 13 will be available soon! On the cover, we tease you with our lobster dinners at Cod End in Tenants Harbor.

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Here is another wonderful cookbook I received for review, called Flavors of the Florida Keys by Linda Gassenheimer. This entry called Lobster Escargot intrigued me, as it called for Maine lobster, which we all know is king.

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