Month: May 2020

~Old Line Plate online interactive talk May 24 recording~

Thanks to everyone who “stopped by”, it was really an honor to be able to have a little time to connect with people and talk about my work and hear people’s experiences with beaten biscuits etc. It was a little awkward with the new format but that’s to be expected. I’ll definitely have to do this again sometime!

Recording:

https://www.bigmarker.com/managing-editor-live/Kara-s-Webinar?utm_bmcr_source=olp

Thanks to my friend Kate for this shot of me in such auspicious surroundings

The online venue is provided by Rep Cap, who did not ask for me to keep mentioning that but I am just so grateful!!!

“Mother’s Southern Spoon Corn Bread,” Gwendolyn E. Coffield

Once again a second visit with a cookbook reveals a new dimension to it: this time its the 1973 “Rosemary Hills International Community Cookbook,” compiled by Gwendolyn Coffield and Juanita Hamby. The book is an early celebration of the DC suburbs’ growing diversity.

In 2002, the Washington Post ran an article about the Lyttonsville neighborhood surrounding the Rosemary Hills School. The article called the Silver Spring neighborhood an “ethnic enclave” with “hidden appeal.”

Gwendolyn’s sister Charlotte is quoted in that article, reflecting on the ways Lyttonsville had changed over the years. The historically Black neighborhood, built on land that had been acquired in the 1850s by a free Black man named Samuel Lytton, has been home to several generations of the Coffield family.

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