For more than a generation, Marjorie Standish's books have been the most well-thumbed cookbooks in many a Maine kitchen. The recipes are hearty, simple to prepare, and classic -- the kind of favorite dishes that never go out of style.

Cooking Down East

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Standish, Marjorie

Regional & International

Down East Books

Maine Sunday Times columnist Marjorie Standish's readers clamored for a second cookbook, after the success of Cooking Down East. Here are more of her readers' favorites.

Keep Cooking - The Maine Way

With more than a dash of Maine friendliness, Marjorie Standish serves up a bounty of satisfying dishes such as Finnan Haddie, Baked Stuffed Lobster, Old-Fashioned Clam Pie, Boothbay Harbor Crab Cakes, Lobster Casserole, and many more―all submitted over the years by faithful readers of Marjorie's wonderful newspaper column Cooking Down East. Pull up a chair and enjoy.

Seafood: Down East Recipes

Cooking by Ingredient

The best recipes from Maine's acclaimed food writer, these are mouth-watering renditions of classics like clam chowder, lobster stew as well as broccoli chowder and crabmeat stew. Simple and simply delicious!

Chowders, Soups, and Stews

Keep Cooking the Maine Way

Maine Sunday Times columnist Marjorie Standish's readers clamored for a second cookbook, after the success of Cooking Down East. Here are more of her readers' favorites.

Gannett Books

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.

Cooking Down East: Favorite New England Recipes

Guy Gannett Publishing Co.

The best recipes from Maine's acclaimed food writer, these are mouth-watering renditions of classics like clam chowder, lobster stew as well as broccoli chowder and crabmeat stew. Simple and simply delicious!

Chowders Soups and Stews

Main Courses & Side Dishes

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.

Cooking Down East: Favorite Maine Recipes

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