Portland Food: The Culinary Capital of Maine (American Palate)
Kate McCarty is a Food Preservation Community education assistant, managing forty volunteer educators and teaching canning classes with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. She is a former Maine Foodie Tours guide and continues to manage the tours' social media. Her Maine food blog, blueberryfiles.com, receives more than eight thousand monthly page views and was nominated for thePortland Phoenixbest 2014 food blog. She also writes a monthly food column for thePortland Phoenix.