I prepared these for New Years brunch. Totally a perfect wintery-celebration side dish.
(Presented in my favorite green ceramic serving dish, photo c/o Abby.)
Maryland’s Way: The Hammond-Harwood House Cook Book
(Waste not want not)
1906 postcard c/o Southern Heritage cookbook
“Canned vegetables are not only a great convenience to the housewife, but when fresh, young products are used and canned under careful supervision by modern methods; they retain more of their food value and vitamine content than most freshly cooked vegetables. This has been recently proved by investigations carried on in nutrition laboratories. Therefore, the…
Depending on how you look at it, the legend of the origin of the Harvey Wallbanger cocktail has been uncovered over the years – or just sured up to incorporate the available facts.
I recently had the privilege of giving a talk at the Homewood Museum on Johns Hopkins University’s campus. I focused on Baltimore’s culinary history, but or course there was plenty about Maryland in general. After the talk, someone asked a question about the influence of immigrants on Maryland cuisine. “Honestly,” I said, “if I had…
The Bethel Korean Presbyterian Church of Baltimore was founded in June of 1979, with a parish made up of seven families. “Everyone was on the same boat, sometimes literally,” pastor Billy Park told the Sun in 2003. By then, more than 1700 people were attending Sunday services at the church. The Immigration and Nationality Act…
As of this post, the Old Line Plate database has 14 different “pone” recipes in it. These fall into three basic categories: straight-up corn pone, old-fashioned pone containing molasses (usually also containing cornmeal or just ‘meal’), and sweet potato pone. According to the “Post & Courier” of Charleston, SC, sweet potato pone evokes a special sentimentality in…
“A calico-covered journal filled with handwritten recipes” left by her paternal grandmother inspired a high-schooler to write an entire book. The year was 2010. I was starting and lazily giving up on Old Line Plate. Meanwhile, Grace Kenneth Collins was finishing a chapter every month on a book filled with stories and recipes. Presumably, the…