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  • Historical map of Governor Howard's estate showing formal gardens with geometric plot divisions and surrounding landscape, circa 1700-1805 Chesapeake region
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    Sources: “Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805″

    ByKara May 15, 2015January 17, 2021

    It’s the time of year for Maryland cooks and gardeners to feel excitement for all of the seasonal thrills to come. The curtains part with asparagus and it all builds up to a kingly feast of tomatoes and more tomatoes and some watermelon and then it’s back to the sedate old winter crops and canned…

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  • Vintage cookbook cover Eat, Drink and Be Merry in Maryland compiled by Frederick Phillip Stieff with Maryland flag design
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    Source: Eat, Drink & Be Merry in Maryland

    ByKara March 5, 2015April 5, 2026

    I could dedicate this entire blog to cooking from this book and researching the people in it. At times I may be appear to be doing so. ‘Frederick Philip Stieff, son of the piano-making Baltimore family, was a celebrated amateur chef and a sort of menu historian. He made a personal crusade of collecting—mainly using…

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