Books - current projects

Chesapeake Bay Seafood Cookbook: Crabs
Pelican Publishing

I'm writing three new books between now and next year. The first is Chesapeake Bay Seafood Cookbook: Crabs. I'm looking for recipes from professional and amateur chefs. I'm looking for a great back story that your mother's mother handed this down or you were out of an ingredient so you substituted another and have cooked it this way every since. I'd like to know something about you, whether you've had culinary training or been cooking since you were four.

I'm looking for salads, soups, sandwiches, entrees, anything else, and desserts. No, I don't have any crab meat dessert recipes yet.

If you're having a cooking competition involving crab meat, I'd love to include the winning and perhaps other recipes.

The requirements are: you must use Chesapeake Bay blue crab meat and if the recipe has been published before, I must have permission to use it.

Please let me know what you have. I'd love to include you and your recipe in my book. I'm working toward a deadline of October 15, 2010.

It Happened in Maryland
GPP

This book will include 25-30 events that shaped history, Maryland or otherwise. I'd like to include something from each county and Baltimore City, with a few general items. So far, suggestions include the battles of Fort McHenry and Antietam, the medical discoveries at NIH, the Underground Railroad, the construction of the Bay Bridge and the extension of I-70 as I-68, the casinos of Southern Maryland, and the midnight ride of Robert Irsay and the Baltimore Colts. The important part is that the situation was "this" before the event and became "that" after the event.

It Happened in Delaware
GPP

This book, like the Maryland title, will include stories about 25-30 events that shaped history. So far, suggestions have included the state border, the Dupont contributions, Dover Air Force Base, the Underground Railroad, Caesar Rodney's ride, and the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal construction. Your suggestions will be appreciated. Again, the important part is that the situation was "this" before the event and became "that" after the event.

Other Books

Travel
Marketing
Historical
Miscellaneous

Travel

Smart Shopping Baltimore Washington (forthcoming Winter 2011)
Insiders' Guide to Baltimore
Virginia Off the Beaten Path
Maryland and Delaware Off the Beaten Path
Country Roads of Maryland and Delaware (out of print)
Fun Places to Go With Children in Washington, D.C. (out of print)
The Spa Guide (out of print)

Marketing

Spa Marketing Ideas (forthcoming Spring 2010)
Hotel and Resort Marketing Ideas (forthcoming Spring 2010)
Destination Marketing Ideas (forthcoming Summer 2010)
Big Bang Marketing for Spas (out of print)

Historical books

Zeon Tubes & Politics The Capital Hilton Celebrates the Innovation and Legendary Appeal of the Statler Legacy
Omni Shoreham Hotel Celebrating Capital Service

Miscellaneous

Divorce Common Sense Handbook
Super Bowl Trivia
Career Opportunities in the Travel Industry