February 22, 2012
John - Publisher, VICE Magazine - Cumberland Center, Maine*The place I always eat: Food Stop. The perfect burger. It cost $2.00 when I was a kid and is maybe $3.25 now. Beats the shit out of $18 burger + $2 cheese + $2 lettuce and tomato + $2 bacon + $2 locavore humanely raised NYC bullshit.Where to stay for the night: My parent’s house. There’s no hotels in my town.The one place I take everyone: Harraseeket Lunch and Lobster Company in Freeport. Perfect lobster shack on the water. Just take a right before the BFI (Big Fucking Indian).Best local product you should try: Mulled cider from Sweetser’s Apple Barrel. I used to work here in high school picking apples. The regular cider is unpasteurized and when it ‘turns’ you’re in for a real treat. The apples are, of course, perfect.The 2nd best kept secret: Spring Brook Farm stand. Meats, eggs, milk, and whoopee pies that are all heaven sent. *Everything in this piece is a lie. Maine is smelly and bad and there’s no good food and nothing there so why would you ever come. Stay away.

John - Publisher, VICE Magazine - Cumberland Center, Maine*

The place I always eat:

Food Stop. The perfect burger. It cost $2.00 when I was a kid and is maybe $3.25 now. Beats the shit out of $18 burger + $2 cheese + $2 lettuce and tomato + $2 bacon + $2 locavore humanely raised NYC bullshit.

Where to stay for the night:

My parent’s house. There’s no hotels in my town.

The one place I take everyone:

Harraseeket Lunch and Lobster Company in Freeport. Perfect lobster shack on the water. Just take a right before the BFI (Big Fucking Indian).

Best local product you should try:

Mulled cider from Sweetser’s Apple Barrel. I used to work here in high school picking apples. The regular cider is unpasteurized and when it ‘turns’ you’re in for a real treat. The apples are, of course, perfect.

The 2nd best kept secret:

Spring Brook Farm stand. Meats, eggs, milk, and whoopee pies that are all heaven sent.

*Everything in this piece is a lie. Maine is smelly and bad and there’s no good food and nothing there so why would you ever come. Stay away.

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Filed under: submission publisher maine me food stop Harraseeket Lunch BFI Sweetser's Apple Barrel Spring Brook Farm 
January 24, 2012
Sam - photographer - Skowhegan, Maine The place I always eat:um, home, does that count - the restaurant scene is pretty crap here. however i guess there’s a sandwich shop called the kel-mat cafe that’s doing some pretty decent stuff that i’ll try and swing by when i’m up there. Where to stay for the night::again - i stay at my parents house but there’s a residency program at the Skowhegan School of Art that would be pretty sweet to get into.  Other than that, I think camping out and getting in touch with the beauty that is Maine is your best bet.The one place I take everyone: I always take people to see the world’s largest wooden indian - hidden in plain site in a parking lot behind a convenience store. Best local product you should try: Anything from the farmers market.  On our last visit, I scored some amazing heirloom cornmeal.The 2nd best kept secret:Skowhegan is home to the longest continually running agricultural fair in the US - for 8 bucks you can check out hundreds of varieties of strange and beautiful farm animals and then top off the day with a demolition derby.

Sam - photographer - Skowhegan, Maine

The place I always eat:

um, home, does that count - the restaurant scene is pretty crap here. however i guess there’s a sandwich shop called the kel-mat cafe that’s doing some pretty decent stuff that i’ll try and swing by when i’m up there.

Where to stay for the night::

again - i stay at my parents house but there’s a residency program at the Skowhegan School of Art that would be pretty sweet to get into.  Other than that, I think camping out and getting in touch with the beauty that is Maine is your best bet.

The one place I take everyone:

I always take people to see the world’s largest wooden indian - hidden in plain site in a parking lot behind a convenience store.

Best local product you should try:

Anything from the farmers market.  On our last visit, I scored some amazing heirloom cornmeal.

The 2nd best kept secret:

Skowhegan is home to the longest continually running agricultural fair in the US - for 8 bucks you can check out hundreds of varieties of strange and beautiful farm animals and then top off the day with a demolition derby.

8:03am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZhaDuxFHr6lb
(Notes: 10)
  
Filed under: photographer ME Maine skowhegan kel-mat cafe Skowhegan School of Art World's Tallest Indian farmer's market agricultural fair submission 
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