Suzy Arbogast contributed a peculiarly-named recipe to the “Cooking the Severn Way… Supplement” cookbook. Entitled “Dick Arbogast’s Male Liberated Pie,” it called for condensed milk, Cool Whip, and a can of pie filling, layered in in a pre-baked pie shell. At the end of the recipe, Suzy wrote “Preparation time: 8 min. Total Calories: 10,000.”…
There are those for whom a recipe contest is a footnote. Many contestants walk off the experience with a fun story and perhaps a triumph, and their names enshrined into a token cookbook. For others, however, the competition is a way of life. These food mavens work the circuit of county fairs, recipe contests and…
Open just about any Maryland community cookbook from the 1980s, and you’re likely to find a recipe for Crab Meltaways.
“[The Eastern Shore’s] biggest booster lives in Chestertown,” wrote W.C. Thurston in the preface to his book The Eastern Shore (of Maryland) In Song and Story. She was “a fair daughter of the Shore who typed two stories for us when we needed only one.” Westcott contributed two odes to the book, one to the…
Definition of olio 2a: a miscellaneous mixture : HODGEPODGE — Merriam-Webster It didn’t take too many years of research for me to come to the disappointing realization that a lot of the romantic notions I’d held about recipes were simply not true. “Recipes” are not exact formulas. They can never really live up to the…