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Olney Inn Sweet Potatoes
I need a scanner Recipe from the historic Olney Inn via Maryland’s Way (yet again). Here’s a really great link about the Olney Inn with recipes, including the apparently more famous “Olney Inn Sweet Potato Souflee”. Came across that one all over the web. I’ll have to try it sometime. “It was a wonderful place…
An Eastern Shore Tomato Tasting
When I think of an emblamatic Maryland food – something that represents the abundance that Marylanders have enjoyed, the unique terroir, a key component of past economy – I think of Eastern Shore Tomatoes. My passion for Eastern Shore tomatoes (and watermelons) cannot be over-stated. Three standard meals fed us during the summers at my…
Shad season continues on Old Line Plate
If the obsession baffles you then maybe I haven’t emphasized the importance of Shad but it is in fact our “founding fish.” I also want to give a shout out to Paul Greenberg whose article on getting over it and using whole fish for economy and environment was handed to me by my mother early…
The Delmarva Chicken Festival
“In June 1948 an enthusiastic three-mile parade wended its way through the tiny town of Georgetown, Delaware, as the final event in the improbably named (to contemporary ears) “Del-Mar-Va Chicken of Tomorrow Festival.” The parade celebrated a remarkable event that had been building for several years – the national “Chicken of Tomorrow” contest…The winner, the…
2nd Annual Eastern Shore Tomato Tasting
Jack’s Market, Hebron As I hopefully made clear last year, the results of the “Eastern Shore Tomato Tasting” are in no way definitive. Taste and quality can vary from year to year, day to day, and tomato to tomato. Why bother, then? For fun. This year I roped in some assistance from Kit Pollard, local…
Maryland White Potato Pie
Edit: This is an archived post from 2010. The real White Potato Pie post is here. This is a Maryland dessert that -owing to my more frequent pie-baking- I have made several times before. I’ve come across it in a Southern Heritage cookbook, as well as an older more vague version in the Hammond-Harwood Maryland…
