Maine writer says goodbye

By Avery Yale Kamila

PORTLAND, MAINE -- As you may have heard, the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram is making changes to lower costs and has decided to eliminate many of its columns, including my Vegan Kitchen column.

I'm forever grateful to the newspaper and its editors for allowing me to cover Maine's robust vegetarian community for 15 years.

It has been an honor and an education.

My reporting is what led me to discover 300 years of hidden vegetarian history and found the Maine Vegetarian History Project. https://scalar.usc.edu/works/m...

You can view some of this history in the first-of-its-kind exhibition on view at the Maine Historical Society museum through May 17. (Or tune into the free, virtual talk about 19th century social reformers on Jan. 13. https://www.mainehistory.org/events/food-of-the-future/)

Thank you to everyone who subscribes to the newspaper (please continue to do so - we need local news more than ever), has read my column or granted me an interview. I am so grateful for your support.

PS - The photo of me working on a column was captured by photographer Derek Davis in 2010 in the Press Herald newsroom, when it was located in One City Center.

Editor's note: Ted Cohen was a longtime Portland Press Herald staffer.