With recipes gathered from the Old Line Plate collection of over 300 regional cookbooks, this expedition through history and geography weaves together the stories of people from around the world who have made a home in Maryland. Indulge in a Kinkling on Fat Tuesday; celebrate Passover and Easter in East Baltimore; taste cookies from the oldest Maryland cookbook; be the first to visit neighbors on New Year's Day in St. Mary's county; engage in Christmas mayhem and blame the eggnog; find out why the Frostburg post office smells like saffron in December; stuff your Thanksgiving turkey with oysters from the Eastern Shore, and please, don't forget the sauerkraut! Holidays in the Old Line State have taken many forms, but there is usually something good on the table, drawing family and friends together. Come make a plate. "This cookbook is a real treasure-it's as if a team of first-class writers and designers got hold of a community cookbook and really did it right." - Milk Street "It is one of the most ambitious world-spanning collections of recipes I have ever encountered." - Bmore Art "It's a scholarly feat of hyper-locavore delight that could intrigue the appetite of even a California reader, and Harris's brand-new book, Festive Maryland Recipes, has already garnered national acclaim. " - Butter Pat Newsletter Kara Mae Harris explores the culinary history of Maryland on her blog Old Line Plate. Old Line Plate has been featured on CBS Mornings, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and other local media. She lives in Baltimore. "The Blogger Quietly Preserving Maryland's Culinary History" - Kristina Gaddy, Gastro Obscura Rachel Rappaport is a Baltimorean from a long line of Baltimoreans. She is also a professional recipe developer and author of several cookbooks. While she has created recipes for dozens of national brands and for publications such as the Baltimore Sun, the Washington Post, Food52, and Parade Magazine she has a great personal interest in regional foods and food history has been recreating "lost" and regional recipes and sharing them, among other dishes, on her award winning recipe blog (coconutandlime.com) for nearly two decades. Chef John Shields is the co-owner and proprietor of Gertrude's Restaurant at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The host of PBS's Chesapeake Bay Cooking and Coastal Cooking with John Shields, he is the author of The Chesapeake Bay Cookbook: Rediscovering the Pleasures of a Great Regional Cuisine, The Chesapeake Bay Crab Cookbook, Coastal Cooking with John Shields, and Chesapeake Bay Cooking with John Shields, 25th anniversary edition.