Cooking Down East (Paperback)

by Marjorie Standish (Author)

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Product Description
An outstanding collection of hearty, down-home Maine recipes for everything from fish chowder to apple pie. Marjorie Standish was a long-running food columnist for the Maine Sunday Telegram who spent years gathering her own favorite dishes along with the best of her readers' suggestions. The result was this book, long a standard in Maine kitchens but out of print for years until now. "It's like opening a treasure to share a recipe," Standish writes. These are treasures that will endure long after the latest food fads have passed.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Down East Books (August 25, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892723718
• ISBN-13: 978-0892723713
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #408,979 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Memories and Tastes of Home, November 24, 2000

By	Gordon Harold Mehlman (Frederick, MD United States) - See all my reviews

When my grandmother died, I was the lucky recipient of "her "secret recipes."(Cooking Down East : Favorite Maine Recipes and Keep Cooking the Maine Way).

Everytime I make the Melt in Your Mouth Blueberry Cake, the Fish Chowder or the Lobster Newburg (the fancy one--of course!), I am momentarily returned to my childhood.

The Red Flannel Hash is pretty terrific, too.

At last count, I had 273 cookbooks in my private collection, but these two are the ones I most often return to when I wish a taste of home. Unlike many others, they seem to spend a majority of the time on my kitchen counter, permanently dusted with flour, stained forever with tiny Maine blueberries.

If you are looking for nothing fancy-schmancy, only exemplary "home-style cooking," then these are the best you will ever find.

Thanks Nanny (and thanks Ms. Standish)

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I haven't found anything in this book my family didn't like!, May 25, 1999

By A Customer

My first edition of this book was given to me by my husband 26 years ago. I have many fond memories of family dinners, deserts and favourite recipes from this book. To me it is a touch of home. Gloria Legere Mainiac in Exile in Washington State.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finest Kind., July 26, 1997

By A Customer

This book was always in the kitchen at home, and one of the first things I learned to cook was the Doughnut Muffins, which we often had on Sunday mornings with the papers. Only place I know that has a real recipe for Red Flannel Hash, too! Brings back lovely memories. Soul Food for a Maine girl