When Marie Crawford decided to enhance her culinary skills, she found that no cooking classes were offered in or near her western Maine locale. That being the case, she signed up to take a course at the Maine Tasting Center in Wiscasset. There she learned to create recipes containing traditional foods such as locally grown blueberries and Needhams—a sweet, chocolate-coated confection with a filling made from potatoes, sugar, and coconut. She also learned to cook with seaweed.
Crawford turned her gastronomic gallivant into a sightseeing excursion. She visited the Lincoln County Museum and Old Jail, dropped by the historic Castle Tucker mansion, and checked out nearby Fort Edgecomb, which includes one of the nation’s best-preserved blockhouse fortifications, built in 1809.
