Here's what the press has been saying about our shop, and about the fantastic food that can be found in our small city:
LIVE Q&A with the Washington Post
December 14th we went live on the Washington Post's 'Free Range' column with Joe Yonan and other WP writers to discuss cookbooks, cooking and more. Here's the text: read more
Rabelais Picks Bon Appetit's Cookbooks of the Year, 2011!
"The Best Cookbooks of 2011 No one sees more cookbooks than the owners of Rabelais, the quirky culinary bookstore in Portland, Maine. So who better to pick the year's top titles? Here are their favorites..." Read More http://www.bonappetit.com/tipstools/slideshows/2011/12/best-cookbooks-of-2011#ixzz1eDTam5he read more
Publisher's Weekly Asks Three Questions
"Samantha Lindgren, who co-owns cookbook shop Rabelais in Portland, ME. with her husband Don Lindgren, spoke with Tip Sheet about the hot culinary titles of the holiday season." read more
The Best Culinary Bookshops in America
"Think your bookshelves are well stocked? Think again. These seven dedicated cookbook stores have the goods you never knew you always wanted. Go on, geek out." Read More http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/2011/11/best-culinary-cookbook-stores-in-country.html#ixzz1e62vu9U9 read more
An Italian take on Portland's food and Rabelais
"...e la area urbana e circondata dalle fattorie di piccoli agricoltori che producono formaggi, bacon, carni d'agnello, burro, frutta e miele di eccellente qualita." from Internazionale read more
New York Magazine/Grub Street
Mastering the Art: How Cookbooks Are Pushing the Publishing Industry Forward by Hugh Merwin ..."I do think the cookbook can hang in longer than other printed material," Don Lindgren of Rabelais books in Portland, Maine, told me, "because it's used differently." Lindgren and his wife Samantha are the proprietors... read more
Portland Press Herald - Rabelais Moving
"Rabelais, the food-centric bookstore that helped bring national attention to Portland's food scene, is moving to a new loft space in Biddeford's North Dam Mill." read the full article by Meredith Goad in the Press Herald read more
Cookbooks from Britannia Rule, in The Wall Street Journal
"And while in the U.S. we were only just awakening, or reawakening, to the importance and obviousness of seasonal cooking, that was already a backdrop to these books. As was the value in sourcing ingredients from quality producers, and of having a relationship with those producers: the butcher, the fishmonger,... read more
Boston Magazine "Best of New England Travel"
Boston Magazine has chosen Rabelais for inclusion in its Best of New England Travel 2011, calling us, "the refuge of dinner dreamers everywhere." read more
Portland on CNBC
Rabelais gets a heads up as CNBC declares Portland one of America's best food cities, and with an interesting formula too (check it out in the article). A city's food appeal is not just measured by fine dining or Michelin stars; you have to also consider the everyday... read more