The staff of Maine Food & Lifestyle got together to reminisce about the summer that was and their most memorable meal of the season.
Jim Bazin: Hmmm…that’s a tough one for me…but only because I had so many terrific meals this summer. I would have to isolate two events that I was fortunate to participate in as a food judge. The first would be the Lobster Chef of the Year event at the Blaine House, where I participated as a judge, and got to sample the competitive entries as prepared on site by five competition finalists, all of them excellent Maine Chefs. My personal favorite was the Maine Lobster Salad, as prepared on site by Zeph Belanger, the Sous Chef of Camden’s fabulous Hartstone Inn.
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Yesterday, I did my weekly excursion to the local grocery
I’m on a pie-making jag. The abundance of late-summer fruit and fall apples, coupled with an instinct that — as the days grow shorter — draws me into the kitchen to bake up a storm. I indulged my jones by purchasing a new pie plate, a new silicone rolling pin, and a new pastry-making mat and then hit a 
