Winter-warming family favorites. DAVID’S davidsrestaurant.com DAVID’S OPUS TEN davidsopus10.com PORTLAND 22 MONUMENT SQUARE SOUTH PORTLAND DAVID’S 388 davids388.com 388 COTTAGE ROAD Raffi left more than Rome behind. Snipped by a bishop as a boy, he is bundled off to America when the Church takes shame. Forbidden to use his voice, he explores other gifts that steal him into the society of Boston’s gangsters, necromancers, and the wild crew surrounding the poet Amy Lowell as he searches for a genuine love song. What E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime did for New York, The Boston Castrato does for 1920s Boston. In exuberant and yet precise prose, Colin Sargent conjures a sweeping tale of love, murder, and revenge. - Christina Baker kline, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of orphaN TraiN. Wicked shards of humor and sophisticated, astonishing word play reminiscent of James Joyce’s Ulysses make up the heart of this incandescent novel by Colin Sargent. A rare book, one that will settle into the soul for a lifetime. - Morgan Callan rogers, author, red rubY hearT iN a Cold blue sea £9.99 / $17.95 Cover design: www.rawshock.co.uk Colin W. sargent (www.colinwsargent.com) ISBN 978-1-909954-20-5 9 7 8 1 9 0 9 9 5 4 2 0 5 Colin W. Sargent The Bos ton Cas trat o 21mm Find us on Facebook “Pure Pleasure” - Maine Sunday Telegram “A novel that captures 1920s Boston through the eye of a young Italian castrato seeking love.” Available Now From Barbican Press of London Available at ipgbook.com w i n t e r g u i d e 2 0 1 9 4 9 15- 18 Acadian Festival Celebrate Acadian culture and history at the 42nd annual Acadian Festival in Madawaska, ME. It might be a bit of a drive, but we prom- ise the poutine and “baby crawling con- test” will be worth it. acadianfestival.com 17 Maine High- land Games and Scottish Festival You don’t need your kilt or bagpipes, but make room for plenty of haggis at the 2019 Maine Highland Games and Scottish Festival. Hosted by the St. Andrews Society of Maine, it’s the event of the year for any- one with an interest in Scottish culture. mainehighland- games.org 9-10 St. Peter’s Church Annual Italian Bazaar ClassicItalian food, street games,and tons of family fun char- acterize the St.Peter’s ChurchAnnual Italian Bazaar.Don’t leave without a sausage sandwich!italianher- itagecenter.com These new points south are all within an hour of Portland and worth the drive. Start the trip with a morning joe at Biddeford’s Time and Tide Coffee, the new kid on Main Street. Husband and wife Jon Phillips and Briana Campbell opened the shop in November. Originally from New York, the couple “came to Maine…to build our busi- ness in a place we wanted to live—near the ocean, in an artistic and engaged commu- nity, close to cities but not in the center of one—and Biddeford fit the bill perfectly.” Passing through the Kennebunks, take a short detour to Argentina with chef Ger- mán Lucarelli as your Patagonian guide at The Lost Fire [see our Restaurant Review, page 57]. This Cape Porpoise Argentinian grill house is the smokin’ sister to Lucarel- li’s Ports of Italy. Dinner at Festina Lente in Kittery con- cludes this 60-mile tour. Before opening as an intimate Italian eatery, the build- ing was occupied by Bill’s Original Kitch- en. Though the space may be small, there’s nothing little about chef Sam Ostrow’s cooking. “I love every dish on the menu,” Ostrow says. “If I didn’t I wouldn’t put it on. We are locally sourced and seasonally fo- cused, so there are [instances] when a dish I love can on- ly be made certain times of the year.” Foodie Field Trip