My mother’s Sicilian cassata cake nods to her smart frugality and love

The recipe for layered pound cake, covered with chocolate fudge, is a family favorite for the holidays.

Pumpkin chocolate chip oat bars are a whole-grain, feel-good snack

These bars freeze well, so make a batch or two, wrap individual pieces in wax paper, and have a snack at the ready.

DNA testing sheds light on the vast, mysterious world of heirloom apples

Genetic testing is helping identify older varieties of Maine apples, and may promise more delicious, more diverse fruit in our future.

A mother’s chocolate cake brings up the kitchen confessions of writer Monica Wood

The cake appears in her memoir, and at many a family occasion. But don't ask Wood to bake it.

‘Donut Day’ at the Amish Community Market in Unity brings people together

Wednesday mornings, when doughnuts are freshly made, are a community staple.

Where has all the flour gone? Ask Maine’s home-bound bakers.

Mainers turn to bread, cookies and pastries for comfort, emptying grocery shelves of baking supplies and expanding their waistlines.

Wild blueberries in January? Time to go to bat for Maine’s troubled, iconic fruit

Most of the crop is frozen, anyway, so resolve this year to eat more of what may be the healthiest – and tastiest – berry there is.

Scrappy Chef: Muffin Man, Muffin Man, an Appliance Graveyard Rescue

Many uses of muffin pans and brownie recipe!

Pauline S. Boilard

Alberta Briggs Morris