A lot of the names alongside the recipes in “Maryland’s Way” are associated with the Navy. This makes sense since the Hammond-Harwood house is in Annapolis, but it is interesting to see the different families that came to this region because of the Naval Academy and ultimately became lifelong Marylanders. Frank Jack Fletcher was an…
Frank Hennessy never passed up a chance to promote National Beer. It was his job to do so for 18 years (1957 to 1975), and he approached the job with legendary gusto. Advertising executive John Schneider III (1918-2009) has been credited with “making Boh synonymous with Baltimore.” He may also share part of the credit…
This week I finally took a stab at “Chicken À La Maryland,” a dish famously served (or intended to be served) aboard the Titanic. For months, since I first made “Maryland Fried Chicken,” I’ve been aware of this other incarnation known as “Chicken Maryland” or “Chicken À La Maryland.” I got the impression that this…
“In June 1948 an enthusiastic three-mile parade wended its way through the tiny town of Georgetown, Delaware, as the final event in the improbably named (to contemporary ears) “Del-Mar-Va Chicken of Tomorrow Festival.” The parade celebrated a remarkable event that had been building for several years – the national “Chicken of Tomorrow” contest…The winner, the…
“The disservice done the public by commercially fried chicken is perpetuating the fallacy that Southern fried, by definition, is crisp, crunchy, and deep fried. There is more to it than that, for there are other ways to fry a chicken. So how does a Southerner fry chicken at home? He coats the disjointed chicken with…