Adapting family favorites to new circumstances (11/23/2021) - Susan Hilliard with her “official tasters”: her granddaughter Kori Hilliard, left, and cousin Audrey Anne Jacobs, right. “My love of cooking has taken a different turn these days due to… …
It was called ‘Black Gold’: Black pepper joins salt at the dinner table (11/17/2021) - Black pepper is today an indispensable spice in every kitchen. It’s the most commonly used spice in the world (salt, being a mineral, is not a spice). Black pepper originated… …
Savor the possibilities of salt (11/9/2021) - Most people probably think of salt as some simple white granule in a saltshaker found on virtually every dining table. Countless civilizations have been interwoven with salt as far back… …Don’t let recipe sampling lead to illness (11/9/2021) - (Metro) The holidays simply wouldn’t be complete without homemade dishes and desserts. Treats also are commonly offered as tokens of appreciation when popping in on friends and relatives. Good chefs… …
From a great line of cooks: Rose Marie Smith, talented in the kitchen and elsewhere (11/3/2021) - Whether she is at her organ serving Navy and Coast Guard Chapel families or in her own kitchen creating one of her family’s delicious dishes, Rose Marie Smith’s results will… …
Family ties are knit together in genealogist-lawyer’s cookbooks (10/27/2021) - Bessida Cauthorne White, a native and resident of Middlesex, has co-edited three cookbooks, and her second book has a second edition. She is a retired attorney who is credited as… …
It’s pumpkin month: And here’s why we love them (10/20/2021) - There is no denying that once autumn rolls in, the pumpkin reigns supreme either as food or a decoration. October is National Pumpkin Month. Archaeologists discovered the oldest domesticated pumpkin… …
Enjoy new cooking videos: Made on-site at Gloucester Library (10/13/2021) - “I like to see people enjoy what they are eating. I have a passion for cooking,” confides Chris Thomas, the chef you have seen on YouTube and Facebook when watching… …
Crab’s always worth the wait! Crisfield’s cook-off means great recipes (10/6/2021) - Asian Crab Balls The Chesapeake Bay blue crab was star of the show recently at the annual Crab Derby in Crisfield, Maryland. There was a contest for the fastest crab-picking… …
Soup’s on! Get ready for the cooler days ahead (9/29/2021) - Although her mother was “insecure in her cooking; there were five in the family,” Christine Johnson, along with her husband Robert, has enthusiastically developed and explored various new cooking skills… …
Wait until next year! Guinea cake auction put on hold, but recipes are here (9/22/2021) - The youngest cooks, who now have to wait until 2022, are Andi Ashe, 6, left, and Addison Ashe, 9. Well, it’s happened again. For the second year in a row,… …
Food from the Heart: Annual demonstrations raise $3,000 each for local food pantries (9/15/2021) - The “party barn” doors at White Hall Plantation in Zanoni, home of Charles and Mari Ann Banks, opened once again in August to host Food From the Heart after a… …
Baking at Muddy Acres Farm She learned from family’s tradition (9/8/2021) - “Nothing gives me more pleasure than when I see the smile on a person’s face when I hand them a cake I have baked,” says Kim Cortes. “I love to… …
Putting their best foot forward: Bayside Youth Ballet’s cookbook (9/1/2021) - The Bayside Youth Ballet, a resident nonprofit company of the Diggs School of Dance, has put its best foot forward in the kitchen with a 125-page cookbook, “Be Our Guest.”… …
Preserving the goodness of the garden (8/25/2021) - “My grandmother taught me how to can. With all the fresh vegetables the farm produces, one day she just pulled me aside and said I was going to learn how… …
Proud and generous in her kitchen: Helen Jenkins cooks her favorites (8/18/2021) - “Been here all my life. That’s 74 years, and 53 of them I have been in this house in what was known as Maryus but is now Achilles.” Helen Jenkins… …
Peaches, Peaches: Summer goodness is here (8/11/2021) - August is National Peach Month in the United States. Fresh domestically-grown peaches are available from late May until early October. July and August are the months in Virginia to buy… …
Family favorites come first in Mathews home (8/4/2021) - It was like moving back home for Jo Schramm in 2016 when she and her husband returned to the Bohannon area of Mathews. Their home overlooking Godsey Creek is just… …
Mother and daughter work on mealtime together (7/28/2021) - A mother/daughter team prepares the daily meals at the Sibley home in the Cash area of Gloucester. Bridget Sibley is teaching her 10-year-old daughter, Raegan, to cook. Now, after several… …
Time for a picnic… It’s summer, after all (7/21/2021) - July is National Picnic Month. We can thank the French for such a pleasant gastronomical event. Picnic was originally a 17th century French word, picquer-nique (picquer, to peck or to… …
Pound cake rises to the top in museum contest (7/14/2021) - The occasion was the Mathews Historical Museum’s first Old Fashioned Father’s Day Cake Contest, open to all types of cakes, held in the organization’s site on June 19 on Main… …
Sous vide cooking demonstrated in Mathews (7/7/2021) - Sous Vide (pronounced “soo-veed”) is a fairly new concept in the culinary world. Food is placed in an airtight plastic bag, then cooked in temperature-controlled water. The method made its… …
Picnicking on the Fourth of July?: Have a wing-dinging party (6/30/2021) - Deep-fried chicken wings have long been a favorite of Southern cooking, but the idea of cooking chicken wings in peppery hot sauce was born in the North. What food can… …
Grandmother’s cookbook guides talented baker (6/23/2021) - With both love and talent for cooking, Mathews County resident Linda Braxton spends a couple days each week baking. From her baking, rolls, Bundt and pound cakes are ready for… …
Carrying on after a lifetime of cooking (6/15/2021) - Living in Long Beach, California, Nancy Reno was looking through a magazine and spotted a farmhouse with land for sale in Mathews County, and thought she and her husband Dan… …