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    “Louisiana Gumbo Okra”, Mrs. E. J. Strasburg, Maryland Cook Book

    ByKara September 16, 2018April 8, 2026

    It may be impossible to know how many lesser-known Maryland cookbooks have been published and lost to time. I’ve spent many hours obsessively searching the internet, library catalogs, bibliographies, and bookstores for titles to add to my list – especially anything from the 19th century or close to it. A search of digitized newspapers once…

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