3 Strip Road, Fort Kent Maine 1-800-239-3237 • ployes.com PLOYES French Acadian flat bread. Serve with any meal. Excellent with roasts, stews, chili, or as a sandwich wrapped with your favorite filling. Try it for breakfast pancakes,fill with scrambled eggs and sausage. Or just top with butter and shake on some maple sugar. Excellent for desserts! Fill with fresh fruit, any custard or ice cream. Fill with fresh fruit, any custard or ice cream. Our Ployes are VEGAN FRIENDLY, FAT FREE, CHOLESTEROL FREE & OIL FREE. *** Our BUCKWHEAT FLOUR is *** CERTIFIED GLUTEN FREE Available at your local Hannaford Supermarkets, and specialty food stores. Visit our website and have them shipped right to your door! 44 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine hungry eye Hungry Eye June 15 Ogunquit’s Day in the Park The second annual Ogunquit’s Day in the Park includes concerts, vendors, and food trucks. visitogunquit.org 27-29 Greek Festival A 3-day event that draws over 10,000 people each year, the annual Greek Food Festival is a family-friendly Port- land tradition. Come for the spanakopita, lamb souvlaki, and loukoumades—stay for the live music and traditional dancing! holytrinity- portland.org 17-23 Portland Wine Week It’s the event winos wait for all year. With grand tasting parties and evening sails, it’s seven days uncorked in Port- land. portlandwine- week.me 22 Maine Whoopie Pie Festival Fans of Maine’s offi- cial state treat will be in seventh heaven at the 2019 Maine Whoopie Pie Festi- val.With samples of countless different interpretations of the classic Maine treat to choose from, it’s the ultimate educa- tion on all things “whoopie.” mainewhoopiepie- festival.com My friends lived in my neighborhood, in historic houses like mine. There were film- makers and artists and dancers and writers, and on weekend nights we drank wine and ate expensive cheese, fed our kids quesadillas and put on a video for them to watch while we ate coq au vin or mustard chicken. On one of these nights someone proposed a progres- sive dinner: appetizers at one house, main course at another, dessert at a third… Again, I can’t remember what we ate, just the memory of one woman taking all the kids to her house across the street to watch a video and the stars hanging heavy over us that summer night… So Mary—she was in charge of dessert—went home and came back with two beautiful peach pies. These were not typical peach pies. They had a short- bread crust and a moist filling and the peach- es were ripe and perfect, as only peaches can be at a certain time in summer. In his poem “From Blossoms,” Li-Young Lee writes about the pleasure of eating “not only the sugar, but the days.” —From Kitchen Yarns “Food ultimately brings comfort— whereas some songs that come on, you burst into tears, or if you see a picture or catch a certain scent. I lost my daughter Grace when she was five in 2002. She died in April. Her sixth birthday would’ve been in Sep- tember. She was only five, so she didn’t have a very sophisticated palate. But her favor- ite meal was just pasta, butter, and Parme- san cheese. And she loved cucumbers. So a dream dinner was that and sliced cucum- bers. I’ve eaten that on her birthday every day since 2002 when she died. It just still connects me to her. There are some things I still haven’t been able to do even though it’s been 16 years. But eating her favorite meal and remembering cooking it for her, sitting next to her while she ate it, the funny way she said ‘noodles.’ That dinner, simple as it is, still brings me comfort.” A nd that bite that whisks her to trea- sured days like Proust’s madeleines in Remembrance of Things Past? “Scallion pancakes and fried dumplings at Hua Yuan, my favorite Chinese restaurant on 42 East Broadway in Manhattan, always bring me back to China, where streets are lined with woks filled with bubbling oil to fry these up. That was 2005, when we went to adopt my daughter, Annabelle.” n file photo