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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bernard L Herman |
ISBN: | 9781469653471 1469653478 |
OCLC Number: | 1096230438 |
Description: | 382 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction. On place and plate -- A taste for dumplings -- Figs : sweetness in a Southern landscape -- Busted sooks, rank peelers, and white-belly jimmies : mudlarking words for crab -- On strawberries -- Panfish : spot on! -- A freezer full of marsh hens -- Mr. Hayman : on sweet potatoes -- A nice dish for a bad time : on oyster pie -- Clam fritters and the quest for perfection -- A taste for toads -- The Wachapreague Fireman's Carnival cake wheel -- Barbacoa de cordero de Hog Island -- Drum head soup -- Mengue de cangrejo de guisante -- Missing ingredients -- Theodore Peed’s Turtle Party -- On menus -- Thank-you notes -- Crumbs : a note on sources. |
Series Title: | H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series. |
Responsibility: | Bernard L. Herman. |
Abstract:
Virginia's Eastern Shore is a distinctly southern place with an exceptionally southern taste. In this inviting narrative, Bernard L. Herman welcomes readers into the communities, stories, and flavours that season a land where the distance from tide to tide is often less than five miles.
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A fascinating, mouth-watering biography of foods and recipes unique to Virginia's eastern shore."--Foreword Reviews

