Food & Wine
June 2008
Cookbooks Plus: Three Quirky New Shops
by Jen Murphy
“These bookstores offer serious home cooks more than recipes.
RABELAIS IN PORTLAND, ME
The owners—a rare-book appraiser and a former pastry chef—stock quirky texts like notes written in 1905 on breeding pigs for bacon. “
Food &
Saveur
April 2008
We’re thrilled to have been Saveur’s round up of top Cookbook Shops in the world! No link is available yet, but here’s a pdf:
The Portland Phoenix
January 9, 2008
The Year of the Goat?
by Todd Richard
François Rabelais, racy author and advocate of the eat, drink, and be merry lifestyle, was quoted on his deathbed as saying he was “off in search of the great perhaps.” His adventurous spirit is captured at Rabelais Books, where proprietors Don Lindgren and
Fine Books & Collections Magazine
January 7, 2008
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The Boston Globe
December 23, 2007
Shelf Life by Jan Gardner
Pick of the week -
Samantha Hoyt Lindgren and Don Lindgren, co-owners of Rabelais in Portland, Maine, recommend "The Kitchen Diaries" (Gotham), by Nigel Slater: "He writes in a universal voice about eating locally, seasonally, and intuitively. This is our current
Samantha Hoyt Lindgren and Don Lindgren, co-owners of Rabelais in Portland, Maine, recommend "The Kitchen Diaries" (Gotham), by Nigel Slater: "He writes in a universal voice about eating locally, seasonally, and intuitively. This is our current
Boston.com
Monday, December 3, 2007
A Winner’s Circle in Portland.
by Jan Gardner
“Three bookstores -- all within blocks of each other in downtown Portland -- not to be missed:
Rabelais, is the newest, having opened in the spring. In addition to cookbooks, it specializes in books about food, farming, cocktails, and wine, with new,
Rabelais, is the newest, having opened in the spring. In addition to cookbooks, it specializes in books about food, farming, cocktails, and wine, with new,
MaineToday.com
Monday, December 3, 2007
Favorite Food Reads for the Holidays
by Jim Britt
“I received an email last Friday from our summer intern, Liz. She'd just finished a book called Tsukiji, The Fish Market at the Center of the World. Liz wanted to let me know to pick it up.Because it's time to think about buying holiday gifts, one
Maine Home & Design
November 1, 2007
Positively Portland
by Josh Bodwell
“Rabelais, located just a few blocks east of Tommy’s Park, stands as a testament to the city’s obsession with good food.
Opened this spring, Rabelais has proven that Portland is so cuisine-crazed that it can support a bookstore devoted entirely to new, used
Conde Nast Traveller - The Materialist
September 12, 2007
Summertime and the Maine Life is Easy
by Mollie Chen
“... Almost directly across the street, Rabelais is a lovely and light-filled bookstore filled with contemporary food and wine writing, vintage cookbooks, art books, and everything in between. The friendly owners Samantha Hoyt Lindgren and Don
MaineToday.com
September 1, 2007
For the Love of Cookbooks
by Jim Britt
“Have you heard of Rabelais - the cook book store located on Middle St., right next to Hugo's? It's dedicated to new, used, out of print and rare books on food, wine, farming and gardening. They opened during spring of 07. It's a wonderfully inviting place.
Publisher’s Weekly
Monday, August 6, 2007
Two Cookbook-Specific Stores Open in Northeast
by Judith Rosen
“Two New England specialty stores are attempting to satisfy foodies’ hunger for information on food and wine. The first, Rabelais in Portland, Maine, opened in April, while Bostonites now have access to the recently opened Stir.
The Boston Globe
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
They Share their Love of Pastry and Prose
By Diana Burrell, Globe Correspondent
“Every time someone walks through the front door of Rabelais Books, the buff-colored terrier mutt, Raleigh, bounds over. "He thinks it's UPS," says Don Lindgren, the shop's co-owner.
A dog who anticipates the day's
The Boston Globe
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Recommended without reservations
August 1, 2007
Rabelais Books' owners, Don and Samantha Hoyt Lindgren, have many volumes in their own kitchen. These are among their favorites.
"Baking With Julia," by Dorie Greenspan (William Morrow). If Samantha Lindgren could have only one baking book on her
Down East Magazine
August 2007
by Michaela Cavallaro
Quick Bites
“Gourmands and bibliophiles alike will want to make a beeline for Rabelais Books, the new purveyor of books on wine, food, and what proprietors Samantha Hoyt Lindgren and Don Lindgren call “the living arts.” The shop has an array of rare books and first editions,
Chow & Again, Andrew Zimmern’s Food Blog
Friday, June 15, 2007
Andrew Zimmern, restaurant critic for Minneapolis St.Paul Magazine, and host of the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods has this to say about us on his food blog, Chow & Again:
“My dad lives in Portland, Maine, and is thrilled about the opening of a new bookstore for food freaks. Samantha Hoyt
ChowMaineGuide.com
Thursday, June 14, 2007
by Nancy English
Rabelais - Books on Food and Wine
Samantha and Don Lindgren have opened the bookstore of any food lover's dreams, dedicated to cookbooks, wine books, food books, published in the 17th century, the 18th, 19th, 20th -- and 21st centuries.
Rare old books, first editions of great
The Boston Globe
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Appetizing titles
by Jan Gardner
Foodies now have a book-filled haven in Portland, Maine. Samantha Hoyt Lindgren and her husband, Don Lindgren -- she is an editor turned pastry chef and he a former rare-book dealer -- have opened Rabelais at 86 Middle St. The shop, in a neighborhood known for its
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
SOUP TO NUTS Cooks' corner
By Meredith Goad
It's easy to tell that sous chefs, pastry cooks, waiters, bartenders and other food professionals have been the first to discover Rabelais, the new book shop next to Hugo's on Middle Street that specializes in books on food and wine.
The bestseller so
The Maine Switch
Apr 10, 2007
New bookstore keeps it cooking
By Avery Yale Kamila
This week Portland gained a new bookstore with a decided culinary twist. Rabelais, the brainchild of Samantha and Don Lindgren, brings more than 2,000 out-of-print and roughly 1,000 new and used food-related books to Middle Street, between
The Phoenix
Apr 5, 2007
A STORE FOR RAVENOUS READERS
By Jason Wilkins
Portland, which has long been a city devoted both to reading and eating, now has a bookstore dedicated to books about food.
Rabelais Books opened its doors with little fanfare earlier this month April on Middle Street, within sniffing distance of
