Marjorie Standish – författare

With more than a dash of Maine friendliness, Marjorie Standish serves up a bounty of satisfying dishes such as Finnan Haddie, Baked Stuffed Lobster, Old-Fashioned Clam Pie, Boothbay Harbor Crab Cakes, Lobster Casserole, and many more—all submitted over the years by faithful readers of Marjorie's wonderful newspaper column Cooking Down East. Pull up a chair and enjoy.

The best recipes from Maine's acclaimed food writer, these are mouth-watering renditions of classics like clam chowder, lobster stew as well as broccoli chowder and crabmeat stew. Simple and simply delicious!

Maine is one of the hottest culinary destinations in the country. To celebrate, Down East Books is proud to present the Best Maine Food series, a new line of cookbooks showcasing the state''s great food. Kicking it off is this revamped edition of a true Maine classic. In these redesigned pages, longtime food columnist Marjorie Standish tells you how to prepare everything from finnan haddie to dilly green tomatoes to blueberry buckle.

As satisfying and unpretentious as the best home cooking, Marjorie Standish's classic Cooking Down East is a wealth of Maine recipes--and Maine lore. As a longtime food columnist for the Maine Sunday Telegram, Standish compiled some of the best recipes from cooks around the state, including the secrets for such classic comfort foods as New England boiled dinner, fish chowder, and baked beans. She shares her hints for preparing these timeless dishes in a lively, clear style, and also imparts detailed information on some of the state's more unusual delicacies, such as fiddleheads, dandelion greens, venison, and partridge.Standish's simple, time-tested recipes made this book a staple of New England kitchens for decades, as essential as salt and pepper. More than 100,000 copies of Cooking Down East have been sold since it was first published a generation ago--and its sensible, back-to-basics dishes are still perfect for the busy cooks of today. From breads to desserts, from wild game to seafood, from preserves to stews and chowders--every conceivable type of food is covered, and it's all served up with a hearty, authentic Maine flavor passed down through generations of cooks. "An old Maine recipes," as the author writes, "is just as much of an heirloom as a lovely antique."

The best recipes from Maine''s acclaimed food writer, these are mouth-watering renditions of classics like clam chowder, lobster stew as well as broccoli chowder and crabmeat stew. Simple and simply delicious!

"Not everyone gets a chance to write a second cookbook," writes Marjorie Standish. "That's the reason I feel so grateful that this book came about." After the phenomenal success of her first book, Cooking Down East, it was inevitable that her readers clamored for a second collection of tried-and-true Maine recipes. Fortunately the longtime Maine Sunday Telegram columnist was glad to oblige, and another bestseller, Keep Cooking--the Maine way, was the result.Readers of Mrs. Standish's newspaper column shared their favorite recipes generously, which gives this cookbook a pleasing variety and unpretentiousness. "Maine cooking is a way of life. It is evident as you use these recipes," the author writes in her Foreword. "You will find all kinds: they came from our family and they from yours. If you felt proud enough of your family recipes to share them in my column, then they have deep meaning for all of us. . . . It is like opening a treasure chest to share a recipe."

Cooking Down East is undoubtedly the best-selling Maine cookbook ever. Originally published in the 1960s, this compelling collection of recipes for the home cook features the New England cooking traditions and the Maine ingredients that made Marjorie Standish’s recipe column in the Maine Sunday Telegram a wild success. Down East recently revamped this classic with another seminal Maine talent: Melissa Kelly, the James Beard Award-winning chef at Primo in Rockland. Kelly encourages readers to seek out the bountiful, seasonal, fresh ingredients and gives helpful tips on adapting some of the classic recipes for today’s kitchen. This paperback edition includes all the original Marjorie Standish classics plus more than a dozen recipes from Kelly. 200+ recipes.