Lunch and learn

Hungry to learn? Pairings, the food and wine education center in Winterport, has posted its June schedule of cooking classes online at www.pairingsinmaine.com. Choose from “Just Gotta Grill,” “Light Summer Suppers,” or “Picnics with Pizzazz,” to name a few. Classes cost $60 per person. For information call 223-0990.

Fruity beauty

Get a jump start on a healthful lifestyle with California Tree Fruit’s 90-Day Challenge. The event will allow participants to track their daily servings of fresh fruit; get a weekly e-mail with a health, beauty or nutrition tip; receive recipes from Olympic swimming gold medalist Summer Sanders; and have a chance to earn free iTunes downloads. For information visit www.eatcaliforniafruit.com.

The nitty Gritty’s

Good news is brewing at Gritty McDuff’s Freeport location, which has been named the top brewpub in the Northeast by New Brewer magazine, the journal of the Brewer’s Association. Gritty’s is a regular winner in the “Maine’s best brewpub” and “Maine’s best beer” categories of the Maine Sunday Telegram’s annual readers poll and it has made the Portland Phoenix’s “Best in Maine” list. But this honor is special, says Jon Soule, publican at Gritty’s Freeport: “To have your peers in the industry recognize how well you’re doing means a great deal, too.” For more information, visit www.grittys.com.

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