I don’t know about you but I’m not through with corn just yet. You can hold the pumpkin until I’m done scraping kernels from the last fresh cob I can find.I like to broil it (or grill it) and add it to things or freeze for later. This time I opted for a plain corn pudding…
This rich corn soup is not unlike Elizabeth Ellicott Lea’s Corn Fricassee. The flavor of the corn is front and center (or, depending on your palate and your corn, the soup is bland). The attribution in “Maryland’s Way” is “Mrs. Murray’s Bride’s Book, 1858.“ It is possible the recipe is to be found somewhere within…
The opening of the Atlantic Hotel in 1875 is often regarded as the official “founding” of Ocean City. If you wanted to visit the little beach town in those days, you had to take a boat or a train across the Sinepuxent Bay. Train passengers often arrived to town covered in ash and soot. Nonetheless,…
“Every year in the 50s, my mother, my grandmother and I went downtown to do our Christmas shopping,” A. Zoland Leishear fondly recalled in the Baltimore Sun in 1989. The store had been closed all of two months and the nostalgia was stirred. Leishear recalled a picturesque scene of streetcar wire sparks lighting up the…
“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. –It is not fair. He has Fame and Profit enough as a Poet, and should notbe taking the bread out of other people’s mouths.– I do not like him,and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it – but fear I…