Antique Week reporter Barbara Miller Beem talks with us about collecting cookbooks.
Rabelais Press
The press has been very kind to Rabelais over the years, and we've been lucky to be featured in Bon Appetit, Saveur, Food & Wine, Eater.com, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Conde Naste Traveler, National Geographic Traveler, The Financial Times (London), The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Portland Press Herald, The Bangor Daily News, Down East Magazine, Yankee Magazine, Boston Magaine, Edible Maine, Zest, Gastro Obscura, The Heritage Radio Network, The Los Angeles Times, Denver Post, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco California, The Huffington Post, Domino Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, Fine Books & Collections, Antiques & the Arts Weekly, Buzzfeed, Grist, Travel & Leisure, The Christian Science Monitor, Internazionale, My Fox Maine Radio, Paris Metro (calling us ""La Mecque de la gastronomie americaine!"). TV and radio appearances have included the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, WCSH's 207 with Rob Caldwell, Maine Public's Maine Calling, Martha Stewart Radio, and Somebody Feed Phil with Phil Rosenthal.
We're thrilled about what they've been saying about our shop and about the fantastic food that can be found in our small city of Biddeford:
Travel & Leisure Returns to Biddeford and Includes a Stop at Rabelais
"In downtown Biddeford, don’t miss a trip to Rabelais, located in the Pepperell Mill..., the shop is home to one of the largest selections of rare cookbooks in the nation."
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Rabelais on 'Weekends with Yankee'
And you can catch Rabelais on 'Weekends with Yankee', Yankee Magazine's New England travel show, hosted by Senior Editor Amy Traverso. Amy has been a friend of the shop since the very beginning, and we were very happy to be included in their feature on Biddeford.
A "Culinary Cache" in AAA Magazine
The AAA Magazine's Diane Bair and Pamela Wright singled Rabelais out as a reason to visit Maine and Biddeford.
"But you don’t have to be an academic or a food-obsessed bibliophile to enjoy a visit to this distinctive, independent antiquarian bookstore. Located in the brick North Dam Mill building in downtown Biddeford...
Conde Nast Traveler features Biddeford, and Rabelais
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"Somebody Feed Phil" comes to Biddeford, and Rabelais!
Phil Rosenthal, host of the Netflix series 'Somebody Feed Phil' came to Biddeford to see Rabelais and to share a meal with me at The Palace Diner. The Maine episode can be found at the link, and the Rabelais section begins at 26:45.
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Food&Wine profiles Biddeford, and includes Rabelais
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A ‘Food-Themed Holiday Gift Guide’ in The New Yorker with Rabelais
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Rabelais on cookbooks in the Financial Times
The Financial Times - "Why vintage cookbooks have got collectors coming back for seconds."
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Rabelais in Gastro Obscura
"Inside the Company Printing America’s Community Cookbooks" by Sam O'Brien in Atlas Obscura's food-centered Gastro Obscura included selections from an interview with Rabelais' Don Lindgren.
Rabelais on The Bookshop Podcast
We made an appearance The Bookshop Podcast, Mandy Jackson-Beverly's regular broadcast, now at 71 episodes and counting. Mandy describes the podcast herself, "The Bookshop Podcast helps independent bookshops thrive by highlighting these gems of the community, as well as illuminating the wonders of words on a page. Every Monday, I....
A Zoom presentation on Community Cookbooks for the Maine Historical Society
My friends and collaborators Margaret Hathaway and Karl Schatz joined me for an evening with the Maine Historical Society.
Cooking is Community: A look at historic Maine Community Cookbooks
a talk with Don Lindgren, Margaret Hathaway, and Karl Schatz
Tuesday, August. 10, 7 – 8 pm ET
Community cookbooks: you know them and...
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The Community Cookbook Podcast on WCSH Portland's 207 with Rob Caldwell
207’s Rob Caldwell interviews us about the @maine200cookbook and @communitycookbookpodcast. Broadcast on #WCSH or #WLBZ in Bangor.
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Rabelais on Nigel Beale's podcast The Biblio File - Talking about Booksellers' Catalogues
Listen at the link!
How much time is too much time spent talking about booksellers' catalogues? Nigel Beale and I spent an hour and forty-eight minutes discussing them on his book-related podcast The Biblio File. Booksellers' catalogues run the gamut from the simplest of lists mimeographed from a typed original...
Rabelais in Travel & Leisure
Many thanks to Travel & Leisure and to Kevin West for including Rabelais in their 'Culinary Road Trip through Coastal Maine'. This came out in print in April, but I somehow missed the online version. And big thanks again to Greta Rybus for the great photographs of Rabelais and...