A quick internet search reveals that most of the popular recipes these days have brief, memorable names. The exceptions are generally branded like “Cheesecake Factory Beef Wellington” or things that list their contents ala “Cheese, Potato, Sausage, Black Pepper, and Pimento Casserole.” I do a lot of examination of the ways in which recipes get…
From Beef Broth to Banana Fritters, one of my favorite cookbooks to turn to for everyday recipes is “300 Years of Black Cooking in St. Mary’s County.” No book better encapsulates the range of delicious fare produced in the kitchens of Maryland’s home cooks. As much as I love “Maryland’s Way” and “Eat, Drink &…
After making the fudge recipe, I thought I’d delve a little more into the background on the “Favorite Receipt Book and Business Directory,” published in 1884 by the Ladies Aid Society of the Church of the Holy Comforter. Unlike other charity cookbooks, this one doesn’t even name any of the women who might be involved…
“Dozens of AFRO readers… have kept the AFRO switchboard busy since last week’s edition published a recipe for cornbread made by Mrs. Ronald [Fanniejoe] Reid of 1306 W. Lanvale St.” – Afro-American, February 4, 1956 After The Afro-American printed Harlem Park resident Fanniejoe Reid’s cornbread recipe in January 1956, the recipe kind of went ‘viral.’…
If there were definitive proof that fudge was invented in Baltimore, we’d never hear the end of it.