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  • Festive Maryland Recipes cookbook cover featuring holiday dishes, crab cakes, and traditional Eastern Shore ingredients in vibrant pink and blue design.

    Festive Maryland Recipes book

    $25.00

    With recipes gathered from libraries, manuscripts, and the Old Line Plate collection of over 300 regional cookbooks, this expedition through history and geography weaves together the stories of people from around the world who have made a home in Maryland.

    Indulge in a Kinkling on Fat Tuesday; celebrate Passover and Easter in East Baltimore; taste cookies from the oldest Maryland cookbook; be the first to visit neighbors on New Year’s Day in St. Mary’s County; engage in Christmas mayhem and blame the eggnog; find out why the Frostburg post office smells like saffron in December; stuff your Thanksgiving turkey with oysters from the Eastern Shore, and please, don’t forget the sauerkraut!

    Holidays in the Old Line State have taken many forms, but there is usually something good on the table, drawing family and friends together. Come make a plate.

     

    (holiday cooking and history book hardbound)

    Featuring recipes by Rachel Rappaport so you can recreate these traditions at home. Foreword by John Shields.

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  • Sale! Old Line Plate: Stories & Recipes from Maryland by Kara Mae Harris, surrounded by vintage green cookbook covers documenting Maryland culinary history

    Stories & Recipes from Maryland book

    Original price was: $35.00.Current price is: $30.00.

    This book collects over 40 Old Line Plate posts, with lavish illustrations and a bibliography of Maryland cookbooks. THIS IS NOT A COOKBOOK: Recipes are historic and as such, may be unsuitable for everyday use.

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    keywords: culinary history, maryland food, maryland recipes, regional foods, old line plate, historic cooking, community cookbooks, vintage cookbooks, crab cakes, maryland fried chicken, white potato pie, shady side maryland, baltimore recipes

     

    (culinary food history book hardbound)

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  • Hand holding A Culinary Tour of Green Mount Cemetery brochure at Baltimore cemetery with monument in background.

    Green Mount Culinary book

    $15.00

    Tour mini book with recipes

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  • Old Line Plate Readers Collection culinary history book cover. "50 Maryland food stories in a portable paperback" by Kara Mae Harris.

    Old Line Plate: Readers’ Collection

    $15.00

    This collection of 50 Old Line Plate essays is printed in a convenient compact paperback format for readers on the go. Includes essays from previous publications as well as additional favorites from the Old Line Plate blog.

     

    (Maryland culinary history paperback book)

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