July 20th was my favorite summer day of 2019. It was also one of the hottest days of the year.
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Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie
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…
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Cinnamon Pie, Mrs. B. F. Selby
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…
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~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…
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“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…
