“Just before Easter the air in St. Mary’s County is permeated by the odor of stuffed ham a-cooking.” – Maryland Farewell To Lent, Katherine Scarborough, Baltimore Sun 1950 It takes over an hour to drive from Baltimore to B.K. Miller Meats, but St. Mary’s County resident Bertha Hunt told me that that is where she gets…
In 1894, Mrs. Charles H. Gibson, like Miss. Mary Lloyd Tyson and Mrs. Benjamin Chew Howard before her, got in on the trend of releasing a cookbook to share and boast her renowned hostessing and housekeeping skills. Like those other books “Mrs. Charles H. Gibson’s Maryland and Virginia Cookbook” capitalized on the fame of Chesapeake…
The options were overwhelming when faced with choosing a ‘Browns’ recipe to go with the Craig Saper interview. For decades the Browns traveled and collected recipes from Europe, South America, each of the 48 states and beyond. The books are a bit more fun to read than to actually cook from – as many of the…
“If it wasn’t seafood it had to be venison which filled the larders of early settlers of Maryland.” – Geoff Fielding, Maryland magazine 1990 While oysters once captured the imagination and the economy of Maryland, the abundance of game played a vital role in keeping families fed. Deer, in particular, could provide a supply of…
This is a good one if you are having some guests over and you want to be disappointed at how little impressed they are after you undertook a time-consuming process to present them with this delicious and elaborate stuffed cabbage. Don’t get me wrong: this was actually very good. It’s just that the end result…