MEDIA ADVISORY: New Cookbook – Dishing Up Maryland Release Party on March 24

ANNAPOLIS, MD (March 16, 2010) — A first-of-its-kind cookbook featuring local Maryland products,  the farmers and watermen that grow and harvest them, and the chefs who prepare the recipes is being released on March 24, 2010 in Annapolis.  This new book captures the unique and delectable cuisine of Maryland with “150 recipes from the Alleghenies to the Chesapeake Bay.” Dishing Up Maryland is authored by award-winning Maryland writer Lucie Snodgrass. Stunning photography by Edwin Remsberg, himself a Maryland farmer, provides the visual counterparts to stories of the farm families and chefs featured in the book. His audio-visual profile of the author is posted online at http://remsberg.com/soundbooks/lucie_web/. John Shields, renowned chef who embodies the buy local effort, provides an insightful foreword to the book.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the Maryland’s Best program to promote the purchase of locally grown and raised products for the benefit of the State’s farmers, watermen and related businesses. The book is published by Storey Publishing. The Maryland Wineries Association and the Maryland Cut Flower Growers Association are sponsoring the event.
WHAT:    Launch Party for Dishing Up Maryland with tastings of local food from the book (By invitation only)
WHEN:    Wednesday, March 24; 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
WHERE:   Banneker-Douglass Museum, 84 Franklin St., Annapolis MD 21401                    Parking is in commercial parking garages
WHO:    Senator Barbara A. Mikulski; Agriculture Secretary Earl F. Hance; author Lucie Snodgrass; photographer Edwin Remsberg; farmers and chefs with local products and recipes featured in the book.
Media RSVP:    Julie Oberg at 410-841-5888 or [email protected]
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