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Maryland

Food, wine and other drinks from Maryland.

Food in Maryland

When Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, received the grant for the land along the Chesapeake Bay and north of the Potomac River from King Charles I In 1632, he also received a request to name the colony after the Queen, Henrietta Maria. So Maryland came to be.

Crab & rice Maryland

Crabs are cooked in a myriad of ways, boiled, baked or fried in bacon drippings, as in this recipe. Crab Maryland style is just crab meat with a little onion and celery sautéed in bacon drippings, tossed with crumbled bacon and rice. All I can say is "Try this!"

Baked crab cakes (Maryland)

There are many ways to cook a crab in Maryland. Soups, salads, breakfast dishes and tasty main courses are made with crab, and probably the best known dish of all Maryland is crab cakes. The problem is choosing a recipe. There are nearly as many baked craba cakes recipes in Maryland as people. OK, may be not that many, but there are a lot. Here, we have baked crab cakes. Baking is easier than frying for a family dinner.