Cooking Down East: Favorite Maine Recipes

By Marjorie Standish

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608931927
• ISBN13: 9781608931927
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Down East Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Memories and Tastes of Home

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)

I haven't found anything in this book my family didn't like!

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.

The best cookbook always.

I grew up with this book and Ms. Standishs other Keep cooking the Maine way. Absolutely the best book. Good simple food and easy to follow. I love it!

Another example of why Maine is such a special place.

As I get ready to go to my yearly family lobster bake here on the Fourth of July, I bring with me a long time favorite of Marjorie Standish's, Melt-in-your-mouth blueberry cake. I have bake this cake for friends from all over and it is always a hit. I double the recipe and make a 9"x13" because there is never enough! I was so glad to see this cookbook back in print since my mother will not give up her copy which I grew-up using. Majories fish chowders are the best especially on a cold snowy night! A "must" cookbook for the kitchen.

Finest Kind.

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