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New Annapolis Cookbook Features Locals’ Favorite Recipes to Help Raise Money for Industry Employees and Hungry Families
Proceeds of Dine Out In Annapolis While Eating In to benefit Feed Anne Arundel
ANNAPOLIS, MD — To help raise critically needed funds for struggling independent restaurants of Annapolis and the surrounding communities, a local professional photographer has put her talents and time to work benefitting the restaurants she’s come to love. Naptown Food, a food photography business owned by Edgewater resident Danielle Lundberg, has created a cookbook featuring local restaurants and taverns’ beloved recipes. The book is entitled, “Dine Out in Annapolis While Eating In.” Lundberg will donate profits from the sale of the cookbooks to Feed Anne Arundel, a local partnership that addresses the financial instability of the local food industry and its employees and food insecurity that has dramatically increased during the COVID pandemic.
“I love to eat. I love to take photos. I love to go to these restaurants and taverns. I decided it was time to do something that combined these passions and helped those who are struggling,” said Lundberg. “Earlier in the summer, I published a calendar “Annapolis Dogs” that combined my love of dogs, photography, and Annapolis, and it raised more than $1,500 for the SPCA. I figured I could do something similar for these businesses that are barely hanging on. My jeans may be a bit tighter from sampling all of the great food that is featured, but my heart is full knowing that we can make a difference in the lives of this industry, its employees and those are having a hard time putting food on their family’s table.”
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More than 30 local restaurants contributed recipes to the book that features brunch, lunch, dinner, dessert, and cocktail recipes. Dishes range from crab dip to kung pow chicken, Italian and Belgian specialties to Southern comfort food.
Participating restaurants include Level: A Small Plates Lounge, Soul, Julep Southern Kitchen, Boatyard Bar and Grill, Vin 909, Annapolis Market House, Luna Blu, Stan and Joe’s, Black Wall Hitch, In Grano, Park Tavern, Caliente Grill, Preserve, Pussers, Broadneck Grille and more.
The book is available for pre-sale for $37.50 through Naptown Food’s website. Delivery will begin on March 1. Some participating restaurants will also have books for sale on site. Digital copies of the book are planned. Future events, public safety permitting, will include book release parties at participating restaurants featuring tastings of the recipes.
Naptown Food is a food photography business available for menu and marketing visual needs. Visit www.naptownfood.com for more information.
