Dining Down Memory Lane: A Collection of Classic Baltimore Restaurants and their Recipes - Softcover

Howell, Shelley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692162453 ISBN 13: 9780692162453

Publisher: Baltimore Memory Lane Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

No old school Bawlmer kitchen will be complete without this cookbook collector’s dream. It’s a journey with stops at Marconi’s, Angelina’s, the Belvedere Hotel, and many other landmarks from our region’s great gastronomic past.

This book of Baltimore restaurants and their recipes is perfect for the cook who wants to capture Free State flavors of yesteryear, and serve them up on the dining room table. Readers will find classics such as Maryland crab cakes and Oysters Chesapeake followed by treasures like Haussner’s strawberry pie. This tour of bygone days in “the land of pleasant living” will leave you hungry for Crab Imperial, or dreaming of some special night in Louie’s Bookstore and Cafe, the Old Pimlico Hotel, or Baltimore’s Little Italy.

• Hampton’s
• Velleggia’s
  
• Martick’s
• Women’s Industrial Exchange
• Brass Elephant
• John Eager Howard Room
• Danny’s
• Chesapeake Restaurant
• Jeannier’s
• Cafe des Artistes
• Harvey’s
• Hutzler’s Valley View Room
• Shane’s
• Peerce’s Plantation

Whether your favorite was the shrimp salad at Johnny Unitas’ Golden Arm, or Chesapeake Bay steamed crabs at Obrycki’s this is the perfect Maryland gift idea for any season. Enjoy!

About this title

About the Author

Shelley Howell is a proud native Baltimorean with a passion for the past. A vintage enthusiast, her collection of recipes from now-defunct Baltimore restaurants is a treasure trove that will transport readers to another time and age. Shelley feels very fortunate to have personally dined at these sorely missed establishments and wants to resurrect them here to share with you. An animal lover, Shelley lives in Towson and volunteers with the Maryland SPCA. You can visit her Facebook page at Facebook.com/shelleyhowellauthor or email her at sahowell61@gmail.com to share restaurant memories or recipes.

From the Back Cover

Walk into a dining room where the table is lined with crab cakes from Angelina's, Louie's Chesterton chicken, cut-with-a-fork steak from the Chesapeake Restaurant, Obrycki's eclairs supreme, Hutzler's potato chip cookies, and many more classics from a golden age. You rediscover favorites from Peerce's Plantation, the Pimlico, Velleggia's, Marconi's, and so many more. You look up at walls covered with Haussner's eclectic art collection, then glance toward the bar, and the Golden Arm's mural of the Colts winning the Greatest Football Game Ever Played! Wake up! It's just this book in your hands...but what a book it is. Though you can only dream of that dining room, the dishes are here! Just open the book and let Shelley Howell help you turn your memories into meals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Baltimore Memory Lane Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692162453
• ISBN 13: 9780692162453
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122