After 33 years at the Portland Press Herald, reporter Meredith Goad is retiring and moving back to her childhood home of Tennessee.
Goad's been the food writer for half her time at the state's largest paper.
"... the food and drinks scene in Portland, and Maine, have exploded over the 15 + years she has chronicled them, from Sam Hayward’s 2004 James Beard Foundation award for Best Chef Northeast (the first such award for Maine) to the growing farm-to-table movement, through the trials and tribulations for Maine’s restaurants and other food establishments during the COVID-19 pandemic," the paper said in announcing Goad's retirement.
