“All that is necessary for the enjoyment of sausages at breakfast, is confidence.” – Baltimore Sun, 1847 Historically, sausage-making has been a winter thing, but the sage in my backyard was out of control so I figured I’d make a go of it. With dozens of recipes at my disposal, choosing one seemed daunting until…
Hamburgers are one of those foods that are possibly under-represented in cookbooks due to their sheer simplicity. Although recipes for “hamburgh sausage” or “hamburg steaks” appear in cookbooks dating as far back as 1758, most of the hamburger recipes in my Maryland cookbooks come from the 1950s and 1960s. It was a time when there…
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…
On the suggestion of several friends, I recently watched “Fannie’s Last Supper,” a documentary about Christopher Kimball & company recreating a late 1800’s era meal based on the recipes of Boston Cooking School instructor Fannie Farmer. Although I thought that they could have been a little less rosy – this was an era of adulterated/tainted…
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…