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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.

    Bookstores: Please get in touch by email.

  • 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.

    Bookstores: Please get in touch by email.

     

    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)

  • 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

  • Vintage gastronomic map of Maryland and Pennsylvania showing regional foods, wildlife, and produce illustrations in red and cream tones

    Gastronomic Map Kitchen Tea Towel

    $15.00

    (Maryland Map, Recipes, Menus)

  • maryland culinary map handmade tea towel

    Maryland Kitchen Tea Towels – Handmade

    $15.00

    (Maryland Map, Recipes, Menus)

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  • Maryland recipe cloth napkin set with vintage game recipe designs, green ribbon tie, displayed on yellow background

    Maryland Recipe Cloth Napkin set

    $25.00

    These cloth napkins feature recipe contest winners from 1911 in the Soup, Game, Tomato and Crab categories. Recipe winners’ names and addresses are all printed with their recipes. Each napkin measures about 12×16″. Four per set, one of each. Return Policy: Please contact me about any issues with your order!

  • 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)

  • Stack of blue and white Maryland Cooking vintage-style vinyl stickers with retro chef illustration and seafood graphics

    Maryland Cooking Vinyl Sticker

    $0.25

    4″ Vinyl Sticker: Maryland Cooking design

  • Collage of vintage black and white photographs featuring historical portraits, Baltimore churches, and a First National Chicken Cooking Contest from early 20th century

    Donate to Old Line Plate

    $10.00

    No one is under any obligation at any time; this is here for those who can and want to throw a few bucks my way. All content will remain free. Donations will be primarily used for the development of my next book project, such as ingredients to update a recipe, books, and site subscriptions/memberships.

    Readers who can’t (or dont want to!) donate continue to help me in so many ways from telling others about my work to helping me find books at estate sales. I feel so supported by my wonderful readers!

  • A culinary tour poster for Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore featuring historical figures and recipes from notable buried residents.

    A Culinary Tour of Green Mount Cemetery – walking tour

    $15.00

    Future dates tba

    Join me on a walking tour of Baltimore’s culinary history as we visit the grave sites of cookbook authors, recipe collectors, food industry barons, renowned hosts, politicians who shared recipes, and everyday people. Learn about their lives and legacies and the recipes they left behind. Some dishes have remained in the Maryland culinary hall of fame while others may have quietly been forgotten, but all are a part of Baltimore and Maryland’s food heritage and the state and city’s complicated past.

    Over a decade in the making; what began as an idea to picnic at the grave of one person gradually blossomed as I traced more and more of my research subjects to their final resting place at Green Mount Cemetery.

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