Hello friends. This is not a Maryland recipe. I made this pie and wrote this essay on instagram on March 17th, five days after canceling a talk at the Pratt Library and beginning ‘social distancing’. I am posting it here so that I don’t go through all of July with no post, leaving me feeling…
I made this pie weeks ago. Maybe months now? At the time, I was living in a lot of fear of exposing myself or others to the virus. Those fears are still there, but we’ve since adapted a little better. As weeks went by without grocery shopping, I felt a more personal perspective on some…
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…
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…
Here’s another recipe from a Western Maryland church cookbook. This time, St. Pauls Church Clear Spring Maryland. The contributor, Mrs. Fay Kahl-Winter, was originally from Georgia, born in 1933, full name Audrey Fay Attaway. When this cookbook was published, she was married to Herbert Kahl-Winter. In 1976 she married Robert Curtis Shaffer.