I recently found this 1954 cookbook at the Pratt Library, “Secrets of Southern Maryland Cooking,” with the somewhat creepy subtitle “(How to Keep Daddy Home).” It’s 132 pages are filled with interesting illustrations and handwritten recipes – including stuffed ham, a gravy-less Maryland Fried Chicken, and some more unusual items such as advocaat. The handwriting…
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…
Back when I first made Maryland Fried Chicken for my blog, I became a target of some amusing internet vitriol. The authenticity police took one look at my fried chicken leg served atop a waffle and saw heresy. Although the disdain seemed a bit over the top to me, I can understand the confusion at…
Cole Slaw or Cold Slaw? I think I’ve personally always called it coleslaw, but I’m not even sure. And we are talking about a food that I love. Cole/d slaw, it turns out, is one of those words that has been adapted to its meaning ala “scrapple” or “gingerbread”. In Dutch ‘koolsla’ means cabbage…
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,…