Here's what the press has been saying about our shop, and about the fantastic food that can be found in our small city:
read more about Conde Nast Traveler features Biddeford, and Rabelais
read more about Food&Wine profiles Biddeford, and includes Rabelais
read more about A ‘Food-Themed Holiday Gift Guide’ in The New Yorker with Rabelais
The Financial Times - "Why vintage cookbooks have got collectors coming back for seconds."
read more about Rabelais on cookbooks in the Financial Times
"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.
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....
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...
read more about A Zoom presentation on Community Cookbooks for the Maine Historical Society
207’s Rob Caldwell interviews us about the @maine200cookbook and @communitycookbookpodcast. Broadcast on #WCSH or #WLBZ in Bangor.
read more about The Community Cookbook Podcast on WCSH Portland's 207 with Rob Caldwell
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...
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...
We're honored to have been included in the Saveur 100, the annual list of the magazine's favorite food items, people, products, and ideas. It's the first time in five years they've run the list, and we're glad they brought it back (not just because we're in it!). We spoke with...
The April issue of Downeast Magazine includes a short piece 'by the numbers' about Rabelais. It includes some interesting statistics, including the age of the oldest book (was 484, now 489), the distance of the farthest customer (6643 miles to Tokyo), and the most expensive book (everyone always asks this...
read more about Food for Thought : Thought for Food in Downeast Magazine
Many thanks to Carly and Lauren DeFilippo of Life & Thyme for taking the time to visit and listen and look, and then write and photograph this portrait of what we do at Rabelais.
'Beyond the printed information each text contains, cookbooks also boast an unprecedented “evidence of use” in...
Thanks to Amy Scattergood and the LA Times for including Rabelais in their article, "7 Great American Cookbook Shops".
Rabelais makes a cameo in an article on cooking from historical recipes in the Denver Post. Flaming peacocks and pyes of mutton: The quest to re-create yesterday’s meals was written by Dan Danbom, an antiquarian bookseller himself. Click the website link above for the whole article.
read more about Rabelais on cooking from historical recipes in the Denver Post