Maine at Work: Reporter spills the beans about factory where nothing is half-baked Ray Routhier is schooled in the basics of making a classic New England dish for mass consumption. Posted March 15 ...

Baked bean suppers: A timeless Maine tradition Not surprising, the community dinner Saturday at Randolph United Methodist Church included baked beans.

B&M fans say makers from away don’t know beans Burnham & Morrill Co. was founded more than 150 years ago in Maine; the company began selling the canned baked beans in the 1920s.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An iconic baked beans factory that stood for more than 150 years is going to cease production to make way for an institution affiliated with Northeastern University ...

Maine baked beans are typically simmered for hours with molasses, onions, salt pork and mustard, “until they absorb all that sweetness and get rich and dark and syrupy.” ...

A plate with classic Maine baked beans (and a classic red snapper) at a recent Peoples United Methodist Church baked bean supper in South Portland earlier this month.

Here, they are known as ” ‘baked beans,’ or occasionally Maine baked beans. Never Boston baked beans,” cookbook author and 13th-generation Mainer Nancy Harmon Jenkins wrote in an email.