AWARD-WINNER PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE Thank you for reserving promotional profile space in our Faces Of Best Of Winners! Please complete and submit the following questionnaire — along with a high-resolution company logo — no later than Friday, August 2. We will then generate a profile proof for your review. Congratulations again! Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Business Name: * Name / Title: * Address: * Phone / Website: * Email: * Years in Business / Number of Employees: * Best Of 2024 Award(s)/County or Counties * Other Honors and Distinctions: * Company Miss ..read more

ENTER TO WIN! Our friends at Shore Smoke Seasonings are giving you the chance to flavor your summer with this ultimate grilling package!  Prize package includes: 22-inch Weber Kettle Grill Shore Smoke Seasonings “Game Day” All Purpose Blend Shore Smoke Seasonings “Thats Amore” Italian Blend Shore Smoke Seasonings “Rub my Meat” Sweet/Smokey BBQ Blend Shore Smoke Seasonings “Queen Bee” Sweet Honey Garlic Blend Shore Smoke Seasonings “Bee Sting” Honey Jalapeno Blend Shore Smoke Seasonings “Between the Bun” Burger Blend Shore Smoke Seasonings “Ocean Pursuit” Seafood Blend Shore Smoke Se ..read more

Recipe by Shore Smoke Seasonings Ingredients1½ lb shrimp, large, raw, peeled and deveined with tails on 1 Tbsp Ocean Pursuit Seasoning 2 garlic cloves, minced 2 Tbsp fresh cilantro, chopped ¼ cup olive oil 1 lime, juice and zest IngredientsPreheat the grill to medium-high heat. Add all the ingredients, except for the shrimp, into a bowl and mix well. Now add shrimp and gently mix. Cover the bowl and place in the refrigerator to marinate for 20-30 minutes. If using wooden skewers, be sure to soak them in water for at least 20 minutes before grilling. Add the shrimp to the skewers and gril ..read more

Recipe by Shore Smoke Seasonings Ingredients2 lbs ground beef 2½ Tbsp Worcestershire sauce 1/3 cup Between the Bun Seasoning 4-8 burger buns Cheddar cheese Lettuce Onion Tomato Pickle Mayonnaise Mustard Ketchup InstructionsIf using grill, preheat to medium-high heat. Using your hands, loosen up the ground beef and place it into a medium/large bowl. Pour in Between the Bun seasoning and the Worcestershire sauce and mix well. Grab a fist full of the ground beef mixture and make a round patty, about 4 inches in diameter and 1-inch thick. Round edges until it forms a patty. When the gri ..read more

Ingredients Bread of choice 1 avocado 1 Tbsp Tomahawk Jim’s Hot & Juicy Seasoning 1 Tbsp fresh tomato, diced 1 pinch cilantro 1 egg 3 16/20 shrimp, peeled 1 Tbsp butter ½ Tbsp white wine Instructions Start off by toasting up a piece of your favorite bread. Next, peel the avocado and mash the pulp up into a bowl, until it is a smooth, spreadable consistency. Spread the avocado pulp onto the bread to serve as the vessel of the dish. In a pan over medium heat, add butter and wine, and when it begins to simmer, add the shrimp. Cover the pan for a few minutes until shrimp is 90% co ..read more

Ingredients 1 rack of baby back ribs Yellow mustard Apple juice Apple cider vinegar Tomahawk Jim’s Cracked Pepper Sweet ‘n’ Heat Cherry Coke Instructions for Oven Lather every side of ribs with yellow mustard as the binding agent for the seasoning. Generously sprinkle Cracked Pepper Sweet ‘n’ Heat on all sides of the ribs, covering them entirely. Place ribs on the rack of the smoker at 250°, uncovered. After a half hour, begin spraying Cherry Coke from a spray bottle onto the ribs, repeating every half hour. Repeat this action until the ribs have cooked for 3 hours. After 3 hours, remove the ..read more

Susan Roche’s underwater photography and resulting encaustic mixed media works invite viewers into an ethereal, healing space Written by Kristen Hampshire “Water is healing,” says Susan Roche. “Time in it, by it, near it—water soothes your soul and makes everything better.” When the lifelong artist began photographing people under water, something “playful and alive and exciting” emerged. “Someone who might be old can get out in the water and say, ‘I feel like I am a girl again! I can do anything. Yes! Yes!” This is basically what brought Roche to her passion and current focus as histori ..read more

A happenstance property became a legacy project for a multi-generational family home that is equal parts play and gather, relax and retreat Written by Kristen Hampshire   |   Photography by Stephen Cherry When Ryan and Katie Mollet stole away for a long weekend at a friend’s home on Chester River, they certainly didn’t expect to land a property that would become a waterfront retreat for the family, though it was always a dream. While boating in Grasonville, they spotted a lot—an empty one, a rarity on this sparse strip at the confluence of the Chester River and Chesapea ..read more

A family retreat with ‘coastal comfortable’ materials can be lived in and loved on. Pretention not included Written by Kristen Hampshire | Photography by Robert Radifera, Stylish Productions A camping chair and card table were the only furnishings on site when Carol Wheeler arrived to meet the homeowners at their Sherwood, MD, property, which is nestled on a point on Harris Creek and Dunns Cove. “The bones of the house were strong, and it was a clean canvas—and empty,” says Wheeler, interior designer at Bountiful Home in Easton. A neutral color palette allows the serene tributary sur ..read more

Showell Elementary School teacher and students meet Kelly Slater and create a homegrown book about keeping beaches clean. Written by Kristen Hampshire What if everyone tossed just one piece of trash on the beach—allowed a stray wrapper to blow away toward the waves or absently left behind a plastic bottle or can? Mackenzie Keyser and her second-grade class spark this dialogue in a book that was released on April 16 called, Keep Our Beaches Clean! What if Everyone Did That? The idea swelled from a Zoom call lesson with pro-surfer and World Surf League champion Kelly Slater. “During virtual ..read more