Here's what the press has been saying about our shop, and about the fantastic food that can be found in our small city:
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
Our buddy Andrew Knowlton leaves a delicious swansong as he leaves Bon Appetit for other pastures, naming Portland, Maine "Resturant City of the Year" and including Biddeford and Rabelais in his round-up.
"Leave town! Biddeford is the best reason to drive 18 miles south. It's home to one of the...
by Meredith Goad
Rabelais, the rare books store in Biddeford, will stop selling new and recent used books and materials and will be open by appointment only in 2018.
Rabelais, an antiquarian book store in Biddeford that...
Portland's creative and strategic content firm Knack Factory produced a short video featuring Rabelais. They write,
"We wanted to spend time with someone who is equal parts insightful and sort of magical. Our friends at Big Tree Hospitality (Hugo's Restaurant, The Honey Paw and Eventide Oyster Co.) inspired us to...
WCSH's Rob Caldwell visits Rabelais to see what we're up to.
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/207/maines-booming-food-scene-is-good-for-other-businesses-too/357159389
read more about WCSH's Rob Caldwell visits Rabelais to see what we're up to.
Peggy Grodinsky of the Portland Press Herald talks to us about cookbooks and Rabelais.
Domino Magaine mentions the irresistible one-two punch of Palace Diner and Rabelais Books, Very happy to be on this list!
read more about Domino Magazine visits Portland (and Biddeford)
"A national treasure of a cookbook store that specializes in out-of-print and rare tomes, some of which are hundreds of years old. At the time of year owners Don and Samantha Lindgren frequently travel, so call ahead to make an appointment, even simply to browse or buy the latest Ottolenghi...
"For today’s installment, we take a page from our fall issuefeature on collecting cookbooks and highlight the manuscript recipe book of actress and author Fanny Kemble. It will be on offer from Rabelais Books at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fairbeginning Friday evening.
Kemble (1809-1893) was a very popular English-born stage actress. She married American...
read more about Fanny Kemble' Manuscript Cookery Book, in Fine Books & Collections
"A shop filled with nothing but food books is a certain form of heaven"
"Indeed, some stores have serious culinary pedigrees: Kitchen Arts and Letters was a favorite of James Beard and Julia Child, and is a necessary pilgrimage spot for food-world celebrities like Ferran Adria. Biddleford, Maine's Rabelais is as beloved...