The Salt Exchange

For your reading and web-browsing pleasure:

• Maine Blueberry Malted Waffles, photographed by Dana Moos.
• More on Maine Blueberries: "Love at first bite"
• This interview with Chef Mitchell Kaldrovich of Sea Glass at the Inn by the Sea in Cape Elizabeth also yields a killer recipe for slow braised beef short ribs.
• The AP reports "Maine lobsterman in tiny boat pulls traps by hand"
• Mmm. Early farm and garden bounties in Maine, reports the Press Herald.
• Last week the Bangor Daily News initiated a conversation about maintaing a food economy in Maine.
• DownEast on The Little Red Lobster Shack and on baconized cornbread (and how to make it!)
• In Maine hunger news: WCSH reports that York County food pantries are hurting, Bangor Daily reports that the soup kitchen in Belfast is in dire straits, and WBLZ reports that - after a push for food - Windham food pantries are stocked.