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…
Well let me preface this with some (ugh) personal facts. I live with this fellow burgersub. He is allergic to chicken. That is weird, right? But I made this recipe as a family meal so I got some fake chicken patties and went for it, ‘his and hers.’ So anyway, Maryland is all like ‘crabs…
I had some illustrious company and wanted to serve a classy meal. Where better to take cues from than the illustrious Hotel Emerson. Hotel Emerson by Aubrey Bodine @ MD Historical Society The hotel was the brainchild of Capt. Isaac Emerson, the man behind Bromo-Seltzer and its parent company, the Emerson Drug Co…the 220-foot-high, 17-story…
My first inklings of Maryland’s varied Easter traditions came from the Southern Heritage Cookbook Library. A menu for a “Southern Maryland Easter Dinner” featured Southern Maryland Stuffed Ham, Creamed Red Potatoes, Baked Tomato Halves, Frilly Deviled Eggs, Biscuits Supreme and Cardinal Pudding. It features this apocryphal account of Stuffed Ham: Of course as with many…
First Published in 1962 by The Episcopal Church Women of St. Paul’s Parrish in Queen Anne’s County, this spiral bound cookbook is of a type I come across frequently – the church or fund-raiser “community” cookbook. Usually spiral-bound, printed by various specialty companies, and containing home-grown illustrations if you’re lucky, these volumes are a great…