"The first time I visited Rabelais, I spent two hours browsing the Portland storefront, spent $300, and was late to my dinner reservation. It’s what happens when a cookbook addiction meets the jaw-dropping culinary selection amassed by owners Don and Samantha Lindgren. Eight years later, the shop has moved 20 minutes south to Biddeford and expanded. My latest purchase was The Mint Julep, one of 300 copies, published in 1975. I bought it for my 5-year-old daughter, Julep, to give on her 21st birthday."  — Andrew Knowlton