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.
read more"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...
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Portland's creative and strategic content firm Knack Factory produced a short video featuring Rabelais. They write,
read more"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
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Peggy Grodinsky of the Portland Press Herald talks to us about cookbooks and Rabelais.
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Domino Magaine mentions the irresistible one-two punch of Palace Diner and Rabelais Books, Very happy to be on this list!
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"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...
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"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...
"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...
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Rabelais is pleased to have been the agent for the placement of the Esta Kramer Collection of American Cookery at Bowdoin College. The large collection of Amerian cookbooks, dating from 1772, was assembled over many years by Clifford Apgar.
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"'His relationship with food isn’t based entirely on marvelous meals. It’s as much about the failures as it is about the successes,' Lindgren said, fidgeting a little with the excitement of a specialist."
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"We caught up with one of the presenters, well-known Portland bartender John Myers, before he was too breathless from mixing up mint juleps for 20. (Yup, that’s part of his presentation. Even the chats feature booze at this event.) Myers, who works at the Portland Hunt + Alpine Club, and Don...
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"Are my books worth anything, I asked? “Well,” Lindgren said, hesitating politely. “Not really… There are a lot of used books in the world.” (That’s the short version. In fact, he generously spent 20 minutes on the phone and spoke articulately and fascinatingly about the nature of collecting, shelf order...
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