Category Archives: Dining

Memories, music and a meal for Morris

“Oh, Mon Dieu! Those mouse turds, too!” by Fern Shen and Mark Reutter (Baltimore Brew, Jan. 16, 2012) The people Morris Martick screamed at, cooked with, cooked for, fired, rehired, insulted and nurtured – in other words, the people who … Continue reading

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Big News From the 2011 National Oyster Cook-off

(Unique Culinary Adventures, 10/17/2011) It was totally unexpected and has never happened during the 32 years of the Lexington Park Rotary Club’s and Maryland Department of Natural Resources Seafood Marketing Program’s National Oyster Cook-off near Leonardtown, Maryland every third weekend … Continue reading

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Morris Martick 1923-2011

By Michelle Gienow (Baltimore City Paper, 12/21/2011) Baltimore has certainly enjoyed its share of eccentric eateries over the years, but perhaps none so endearing—certainly none so enduring—as Martick’s Restaurant Français. Patrons had to ring a bell to gain admittance to … Continue reading

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Md. Man Saw ‘The Light’ After Crab Cake Causes Near Death Experience

(CBS Baltimore, 11/22/2011) TIMONIUM, Md. (WJZ)—Is there life after death? That question has consumed mankind for centuries. Adam May talks to a Maryland man who claims he saw the afterlife, and it all started with a crab cake. Ancient Greeks … Continue reading

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