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What a great way to show off one of Baltimore’s and Maryland’s

regional specialties by creating Soft Shell Crab Week in downtown Baltimore. Let’s give a hand to the Downtown Partnership. This isn’t the first Soft Shell Crab week, it kicked off last summer and was so successful it has become an annual event. Soft shell crab lovers, dig in!



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Chef Fergus Henderson of London’s St John Restaurant was in Manhattan yesterday, at Chef Jonathan Waxman’s Barbuto Restaurant in the West Village. This is one of four stops in the United States for the chef who took the awful out of offal. The architect-turned-chef is promoting the forthcoming opening of his London… Continue

Dean Batlas, executive chef. Dean was the president of the Central

Maryland Chefs and Cooks Association for numerous years, an organization

that has supported many a charity in the Baltimore region. If you have

dined at Harryman House or Jordan’s Steakhouse he probably prepared

your meal. Most recently, Dean has worked for Marriott as a food and

beverage manager but that is no longer the case.

A real fighter- he is fighting a very…

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Kicking off on Monday, May 10th is the Mason Dixon Master Chef Tournament where our top regional chefs go

head-to-head in a competition where they have one hour to prepare a

three course meal. Like March Madness, the winners of each competition

move on to the next round of culinary competition. This is happening every Monday and Tuesday with our… Continue

The benefits of enrolling your child, the one with an interest in food,

in a summer cooking camp is immeasurable. The kids that attend summer

cooking camps end up enhancing their math and reading skills without

even knowing they are doing so. They learn about other cultures and

their foods. The children that attend summer cooking camps come back

home with a skill set that lets them help with family meals. The

children who attend summer cooking camps learn about… Continue